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Jay Arthur—The KnowWare Man
At the 2009 National Association for Healthcare Quality conference, I gave a speech on lean Six Sigma simplified. At the end of the session, one of the attendees asked, "If Six Sigma is so easy, why isn’t everyone doing it?" My answer: Because we’ve made it too complicated, expensive, and hard…
Jim Jubelirer
Story update 10/23/2009: The link to the prerecorded webinar mentioned at the end of the article has been corrected.
The U.S. economy runs on service. From front-line service in transactional industries such as retail, banking, hospitality and food service, to technical support for high-tech…
(Brooks Instrument: Hatfield, PA) -- Brooks Instrument, a world-leading provider of advanced flow measurement, control, and level solutions, announces new digital communications capabilities on the 4800 Series mass flow meters and mass flow controllers. In addition to the analog and RS-232…
Baumer
(Baumer: Southington, CT) -- As a cost effective alternative to 3-CCD camera technology, Baumer has introduced the first in a line of high quality color technology GigE cameras. Equipped with the Baumer CIELAB engine that offers advanced real-time color processing, the Baumer TXG06ac camera…
E Instruments
(E Instruments: Langhorne, PA) -- The MultiCal 14 temperature calibrator is designed to meet your test and calibration needs in the field or laboratory:
Measure and simulate dc voltage, resistance, thermocouples, and RTDs
Rugged and easy to use
Able to measure 10 types of…
AIAG
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) recently presented the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with its highest honor, the 2009 AIAG Chairman’s Award.
“Thomas Sowell once said: ‘The march of science and technology does not imply growing…
Z Corp.
(Z Corp.: Burlington, MA) -- When a 30-year-old aircraft arrives in the hangar for retrofitting or repair, the more information engineers have the better.
That's why Texas-based aviation services company, M7 Aerospace, is now offering a new service to create precise, 3-D portraits of entire…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) – Mettler Toledo, a leading global supplier of precision instruments and services, presents its Excellence XP Balances for weighing operations in difficult environmental conditions. The Excellence XP Balances set standards in hands-free weighing and cleaning,…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) – Mettler-Toledo, a leading global supplier of precision instruments and services, presents its Excellence XP Balances for weighing operations in difficult environmental conditions. The Excellence XP Balances set standards in hands-free weighing and cleaning,…
Joe Calloway
The Acme Widget Co. needed to increase revenue and profits, so they undertook an initiative to attract new customers: They launched a new advertising campaign and offered special deals to first-time buyers. They were initially delighted to see a significant and immediate increase in new customers…
Paul Scicchitano
There’s one class trip that stands out in my mind to this day. It wasn’t so much the thrill of missing a day in our suburban Philadelphia all-boys school—although that was definitely high on my list for wanting to visit Pennsylvania’s state capital in the first place.
No, it was really the…
General Electric GE
(GE: Billerica, MA) – Rightrax HT, the latest on-line corrosion monitoring system from GE Sensing and Inspection Technologies, provides accurate and reliable wall thickness data of pipes and vessels and is capable of operating at extremely high temperatures. Corrosion monitoring is extremely…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- As the economy continues to show signs of improvement, the American Society for Quality (ASQ) is leading an effort to provide career transition guidance to quality professionals. As part of this effort, a series of career focused podcasts is available to help those who are…
Navitar Inc.
(Navitar Inc.: Rochester, NY) -- Navitar Inc., a supplier of high magnification imaging optics for machine vision and biomedical applications, has announced the launch of its second generation interactive online lens selector tool, the Optical Wizard 2.0, now available at www.opticalwizard.com…
Steve Arbogast
A quality management system is a framework of processes and procedures that are used to ensure that an organization can fulfill all tasks required to achieve its goals, strategies, and objectives.
The majority of businesses around the world have some sort of well-defined quality management…
Apriso
(Apriso: Long Beach, CA) -- Apriso, a provider of adaptive software solutions for global Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM), recently announced an expanded focus on supporting global manufacturers in discrete and batch process industries. This approach will help to address the top five…
Keithley Instruments Inc.
(Keithley: Cleveland) -- With Keithley's Low Level Measurements Handbook, you get measurement advice that's critical to making accurate, low-level measurements. Request a copy today, and Keithley will send you a copy in the mail and grant you online access at no charge.
This 200+ page handbook…
NVision Inc.
(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- Cameron Compression Systems used NVision HandHeld laser scanners to produce a solid model of an existing large engine in one-tenth of the time that would have been required using conventional methods.
“It would have taken several years to re-engineer the large diesel…
Stewart Anderson
Story update 10/22/2009: We added a reference to Toyota Kata in the first paragraph.
The tools and techniques of what is commonly called “lean manufacturing” have their origin in the Toyota Production System (TPS). While the lean movement deserves much credit for popularizing these tools and…
SigmaQuest Inc.
(SigmaQuest: Sunnyvale, CA) -- SigmaQuest recently announced that Aspen Avionics has signed a multiyear purchase agreement for its SigmaSure product quality management software as a service (SAAS) offerings. The avionics instrument manufacturer will use SigmaSure for managing and tracking the…
Nikon Instruments Inc.
(Nikon Instruments Inc.: Melville, NY) -- Nikon Instruments Inc. recently announced the availability of the iNEXIV VMA Automeasure Version 2.5 software specifically designed for the iNEXIV VMA-2520 multisensor measuring system. Built on the VMA Automeasure platform, the update significantly…
Miriam Boudreaux
When you think about equipment that is used for measuring and test activities, you think about important equipment that is used to pass or fail product but may not necessarily see its correlation with a supply chain. However, this very equipment—whether it is calibrated in-house or off-site—does…
Microdynamics Inc.
(MicroDynamics: Woodstock, GA) -- MicroDynamics announces the release of the new MD-MicroQC, a lightweight, durable surface inspection microscope. This advanced system design, "provides for enhanced performance, reliable results and the versatility to adapt to different production environments,"…
Ten years after the Institute of Medicine released its influential report "To Err Is Human" (www.iom.edu/en/Reports/1999/To-Err-is-Human-Building-A-Safer-Health-System.aspx), hospital care still has many safety problems, and the quality of care remains lower than it should be in many institutions…
Intertek
(Intertek: Houston, TX) -- Intertek, a global provider of quality and safety solutions, is pleased to announce that as of Oct. 9, 2009, it is accredited by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) to offer certification to the AS9110 standard. With this accreditation, Intertek becomes…
