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CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) — William Wessels wrote the new book, Practical Reliability Engineering and Analysis for System Design and Life-Cycle Sustainment (CRC Press, 2010), for practicing engineers and introduces the interference theory to applications for design-for-reliability.
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(Pacifica Endeavors LLC: San Diego) -- Pacifica Endeavors LLC has launched an online directory to simplify the process of finding an ISO standard, Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, CMMI, or Malcolm Baldrige quality consultant in the United States or Canada. Related software can also be readily…
Jon Miller
Facilitation is the art of guiding but not leading, bringing learning but not lecturing, engaging but not directing. Coming from the Latin facilitar, meaning, “to make easy,” the role of the facilitator is not to do for others, but to bring out the ability of a group to accomplish a goal. There are…
(IndustryWeek: Cleveland) — Economic recovery is around the corner. Learn which strategies and tactics can make your company more prepared to compete. The Manufacturing Competitiveness Online Conference can help. This free one-day event will bring you practical operations advice from industry…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: New York) -- With an estimated effect on 2 to 7 percent of all world trade, counterfeiting is one of the fastest-growing and farthest-reaching economic crimes. Each year, $200 to $600 billion of illegitimate business is conducted across all industries—from pharmaceuticals and consumer…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Amid continuing H1N1 influenza concerns and shrinking budgets, U.S. public health departments face tough challenges. At the top of the list: Fewer resources to help ensure that residents get vaccinations and other services in a timely manner. But more agencies are finding a…
NIST
Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T) LLC is a management and operations contractor with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at its Kansas City, Missouri, plant, and several locations on or around Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The facilities under…
MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning support technologies, has partnered with the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University (OSU) to present an innovative and affordable Master Black Belt (MBB)…
ETQ LLC
(EtQ: Farmingdale, NY) — EtQ is pleased to announce the launch of its newly redesigned web site.
EtQ’s web site has always been designed to offer visitors an informational, user-friendly environment for learning more about EtQ’s products and services. The latest updates to the web site further…
Delcam
(Delcam plc: Birmingham, UK) -- Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products LLC (KAAP) has been able to reduce machining times and reduce hand finishing by switching to Delcam’s PowerMILL CAM system. The change produced savings both during programming and on the machine; the software that the company had…
David C. Crosby
I recently wrote an article for Quality Digest Daily titled, “Quality Crisis in America.” It produced quite a response. Most readers agreed that quality needed to improve, maybe even that there is a crisis, but it was a mixed bag about The Boss’ role and responsibility. Some thought I was bashing…
David Rizzo
With the dawn of the new decade, retailers throughout the world are realizing the profit potential of going beyond their main channel of distribution and making products available through additional channels outside of their core competency. Overcoming the challenge of merging these different…
(Berrett-Koehler: San Francisco) -- The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010) is an authoritative and accessible guide to "circle"—a foundational form of collaborative decision making. Written by two pioneers in reviving, standardizing, and popularizing the circle…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: London) -- Hexagon Metrology has announced the release of PC-DMIS 2010, the latest version of its market-leading CAD-based metrology software. The PC-DMIS, developed by Wilcox Associates Inc., a Hexagon Metrology company, is a family of software products covering a variety of…
(InterTech: Skokie, IL) -- Quality engineers seeking cost-effective ways to collect and archive test data for product life-cycle management systems and quality assurance, can now use the InterTech Development Component Tracker System, which integrates bar codes, scans, and software tracking of…
Cole-Parmer
(Cole-Parmer: Vernon Hills, IL) — A new series of i-LAB hand-held analyzing spectrometers from Cole-Parmer offers the convenience of portability. Weighing only 7.4 ounces each, the compact battery-operated instrument enables users to go directly to the sample source. For those who test water…
(IndustryWeek: Cleveland) -- Are you under pressure to reduce supplier lead times while driving down costs? Learn how Rockwell Automation transformed its procurement processes with improved supplier communication, visibility, and data quality. You’ll hear how the company automated and streamlined…
Laurel Thoennes @ Quality Digest
(ASTD: Alexandria, VA) -- Each spring the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) holds the ASTD International Conference & Exposition. This premier event for workplace learning and performance professionals welcomes attendees from more than 70 countries. This year, it takes…
Greg Hutchins
“I think we now live in an era when many of the concerns in running organizations are being reframed in terms of risk, which suggests that risk professionals are likely to rise to the top.”
(Source: “Managing Risk in the New World,” Harvard Business Review, October 2009)
My basic message is…
NIST
NIST physicist Sae Woo Nam works with refrigeration equipment used to cool photon detectors to nearly absolute zero. His team’s efforts have created devices that can detect single photons with 99-percent efficiency.
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Scientists at the National…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. introduces Advantage Image Engines, a family of programmable vision devices for original equipment manufacturers (OEM). Advantage Image Engines offer superior 1-D barcode and 2-D Data Matrix code reading, plus a full suite of industry-proven Cognex vision…
(Utah State University: Logan, UT) -- See and experience firsthand what is at the heart of the lean business model in Japan through a series of plant tours, workshops, and networking with peers, Sept. 10–18. This will truly be a life- and career-changing trip. Implement just 10 percent of…
Numerical Algorithms Group
(Numerical Algorithms Group: Oxford, UK) -- Quality engineers seeking better use of the processing power of multicore computer systems, in addition to an easy way to migrate existing applications to multiprocessor architectures, can now download the new NAG Library for symmetric multiprocessor…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Dreieich, Germany) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, opened on April 15, a global food testing laboratory devoted solely to helping contain costly and life-threatening chemical contamination crises. The Food Safety Response Center,…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a new competition for high-risk, high-reward research funding under the Technology Innovation Program (TIP). The new TIP competition offers cost-shared funding for innovative research on “…
