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David C. Crosby
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ears ago, when I was a field quality rep (source inspector), part of my job was to audit prospective suppliers. The basis of the audits was MIL-Q-9858A, the military quality system. Most audits were simply me sitting across the desk from the head guy or gal asking questions. Do you do this?…
Denise Robitaille
It was the great W. Edwards Deming who first applied this tenet, “Drive out fear,” to quality management in his book Out of the Crisis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982) It’s one of his 14 Points for Management.
Over the last two decades, more than a million organizations have…
IBM
(IBM: Armonk, NY) -- A new IBM study reveals that despite tough economic times, Americans at all income levels are refusing to sacrifice quality, value, and nutrition to save money on food, and health and beauty purchases. The current economy has, however, led U.S. shoppers to take a closer look…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- On Sept. 10, the White House announced President Barack Obama’s intention to nominate physicist Patrick Gallagher to be the 14th director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Gallagher, 46, is currently the NIST deputy director.
“NIST is a…
(GE Fanuc: Charlottesville, VA) -- GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, announced the availability of miView, a comprehensive new machine intelligence solution designed to automatically provide companies with accurate and unbiased data to help teams improve the…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: New York) -- Nine leading standards organizations have announced that they will sponsor a free event on Oct. 2, introducing Congressional staff to the U.S. private sector–led approach to standards. Attendees will learn how standards and conformity assessment measures help companies meet…
Educators should learn a thing or two from the just-in-time and lean production techniques used by the automotive industry, if they are to add value to the student experience as quickly and effectively as possible. That’s the conclusion of the report published in the International Journal of Human…
Intelex Technologies Inc.
(Intelex Technologies Inc.: Toronto, Canada) -- Intelex Technologies Inc., a provider of web-based management systems, has announced that it has been selected by the FBI's Aviation Section to provide a software solution addressing their safety and quality management needs.
Chosen for its high…
Leica Geosystems
(Leica Geosystems: Norcross, GA) -- Leica Geosystems announces a complete new series of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and geographic information systems (GIS) products for the asset management market. The revolutionary Leica Zeno GIS offers experienced professionals and newcomers…
Sidney Vianna
Aviation safety is a very critical issue. For millions of people to fly safely every day around the world, a very large and complex network of business and regulatory agencies have to operate flawlessly, delivering defect-free, on-time parts and hardware to all corners of the globe.
During the…
FDA
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces that it has commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to study the premarket notification program used to review and clear certain medical devices marketed in the United States.
The IOM study will examine the…
(CEESI: Boulder, CO) -- CEESI would like to invite you to the 2010 Ultrasonic Meter User’s Workshop in Singapore. This annual event, which is modeled after the Ultrasonic Meter Seminar held previously in Colorado, brings together a wealth of information as well as new ideas and new questions…
NDI
(NDI: Waterloo, ON, Canada) -- NDI has expanded the versatility of its OPTOTRAK PROseries portable coordinate measuring machine (CMM) with the addition of the wireless Universal Probe Controller. This new addition provides complete freedom of movement for all of the NDI probing options. When…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl’s best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently found1 that the gems might turn out to be a patient’s best friend as well.
The team’s work…
Georgia Institute of Technology
Envision a distasteful trip to the curb to take out the trash as a pleasant—and profitable—stroll.
Some juiceless batteries—those are good for a few cents. An old keyboard might fetch a couple of bucks. Even that empty box of Pop-Tarts might be worth something.
No need to sort these discards…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Cambridge, UK) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., recently announced a new application note to illustrate the capabilities of its Thermo Scientific iCAP 6200 ICP spectrometer for the analysis of toxic trace elements in children’s toys. The dual-view inductively coupled…
DNV
(DNV Certification: Houston) -- How do I get started with food safety certification? What’s the process? What are the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmarked standards and which is best for my organization?
Do these questions sound familiar? Do you have more?
Attend "Food Safety…
AIAG
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- Traditionally, major automakers including Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Honda of America Mfg. Inc., and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., conduct their own corporate social responsibility initiatives.
They are…
(Leica Geosystems: Norcross, GA) -- Leica Viva is a new generation measurement system that combines state-of-the-art technologies into a portfolio of total stations, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers, system controllers, and on-board software. Innovative features and functional…
In conjunction with its Quality Expo sponsors, Automated Precision Inc. (API) and Veeco Instruments Inc., Quality Digest gave away a 32-inch flat screen television to one lucky winner during the last day of Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois.
At Quality Expo, API was featuring the API Tracker3…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced at the Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois, the immediate availability of analog scanning packages on entry level Brown & Sharpe Global Classic coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).
Scanning packages are…
(J.P.E. Consulting LLC ) -- J.P.E. Consulting LLC has released their new SIX SIGMA iPhone application. The application was officially released Friday, Sept. 18, and is available for purchase on the iTunes App Store in 23 countries.
The SIX SIGMA iPhone application is designed to be a quick…
Raissa Carey
As auto making evolves and cars increasingly become simply computers on wheels, independent repair shops are facing a new kind of problem: trying to decode and read cars’ on-board computer systems in order to diagnose problems and hopefully repair them.
It’s common knowledge that automakers…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available “meter stick” for the nano world, the…
Olympus
(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- Industrial engineers, quality control inspectors, and researchers can perform image capture and analysis tasks quicker and easier than ever, thanks to the groundbreaking new Olympus microscopy software platform, Stream v1.3. In industrial laboratory…
