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Mahr Inc.
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal has introduced the next generation of portable surface finish measuring instruments with the new MarSurf M 300. The first surface finish instrument to offer cable-free Bluetooth connection between drive and evaluation units, the new MarSurf M 300 also…
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(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- The study of surface roughness, which can affect everything from the way a coating adheres to a pill to the way light travels through solar panels, is one of the fastest growing areas of industrial research and development. To explore surface metrology and…
John Stiller
Story update 9/23/09: Reference to 9.5.2.f was changed to 8.5.2.f in second paragraph.
As more suppliers are required by their regulators and customers to achieve ISO 9001 certification, and because certification symbolizes a point of competitive differentiation in a tight economy, emphasis on…
Magnatag Visible Systems
(Magnatag Visible Systems: Macedon, NY) -- Visual communications are important for successful lean manufacturing. Inventory, safety, quality, and productivity are key metrics in lean manufacturing. With the patented RotoCube rotating towers, production managers nationwide are putting whiteboard and…
Raissa Carey
Most of us know that Wal-Mart has been a big player in the “green” movement. The world’s biggest retailer takes the whole “let’s save the planet” talk very seriously. So it wasn’t with much shock that in July the company announced a worldwide sustainability index initiative—a single source of data…
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Giving away three TomTom GPS navigators.
Filling out…
Matthew J. Savage
As companies downsize, they cut down on the number of employees, or move, or close, and thousands find themselves without jobs in a highly competitive job market that they never anticipated. A 55-year-old former NCR systems engineer is in line for jobs along with whiz-bang new college graduates,…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- As part of its Socially Responsible Organization (SRO) movement, the American Society for Quality (ASQ) is offering a four-part webinar series on the importance of social responsibility and how organizations can build business value by improving environmental and societal…
Indicate Technologies
(Indicate Technologies: Santa Clara, CA) -- Indicate Technologies Inc. is partnering with Optical Gaging Products and the International Institute of GD&T to present a seminar series, Precision GD&T: Introduction & Fundamental Principles, which explores the implications of geometric…
BSI
(BSI Group: London ) -- Aerospace components must endure unique demands. BSI has recently published BS EN 9100:2009—"Aerospace series. Quality management systems. Requirements (based on ISO 9001) and Quality systems. Model for quality assurance in design, development, production, installation and…
Stewart Anderson
Is the theory of constraints compatible with lean thinking and can the two approaches be used together? This article looks at some of the similarities and differences between the two approaches and suggests how they might be coupled to advantage.
The book, Lean Lexicon: A Graphical Glossary for…
(Creaform: Lévis, QC) -- Creaform, developer and manufacturer of the Handyscan 3D line up of hand-held, self-positioning, and portable laser scanners, is proud to present the UNIscan, the latest and most affordable addition to this family of revolutionary 3-D scanners.
The UNIscan offers the…
CSCMP
(CSCMP: Lombard, IL) -- The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) will present two Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management workshops this year. The two-day events are designed to help professionals explore the positive effect that a well-run supply chain can have on all aspects…
David C. Crosby
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ero defects (ZD) is probably the simplest, most effective quality management concept ever conceived. Zero defects always works and it can’t fail—only the leader can fail. Once a leader accepts ZD as his or her personal performance standard, error will no longer be tolerated and defects will…
Forrest Breyfogle—New Paradigms
Not surprisingly, there was controversy over Forrest Breyfogle's article, "Non-normal Data: To Transform or Not to Transform," written in response to Donald Wheeler’s article "Do You Have Leptokurtophobia?" Wheeler continued the debate with "Transforming the Data Can Be Fatal to Your Analysis."…
Laurel Thoennes @ Quality Digest
Simply put, customer relationship management (CRM) is the creating and maintaining of a mutually beneficial, transparent relationship between an organization and its customers—an added-value endeavor that enables the organization to learn and provide exactly what the customer wants.
The means…
Paul Scicchitano
Last week a big story was leaked to me.
I learned that the Obama Administration had been circulating a draft replacement to Executive Order 13423 that would require all U.S. government agencies in the massive federal bureaucracy to commit to a 20 percent reduction in carbon emissions throughout…
MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) — MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and support technologies, announces the creation of the Honda Lean Network portal. Recognizing the need for a single online source of lean information for its group of 50+ member organizations, the…
Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association
(AASA: Research Triangle Park, NC) -- The Marketing Executives Council (MEC) of the Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association (AASA) has just released “Independent Aftermarket Image: Quality Does Matter,” the second in its series of reports outlining the danger that low-quality, low-cost…
Gartner
(Gartner Inc.: Stamford, CT) -- The automotive industry is experiencing substantial change in response to the global recession, and there are four key focus areas that will have a lasting effect on the industry and force companies to establish new long-term value propositions, according to Gartner…
AICON 3D Systems
(AICON 3D Systems: Braunschweig, Germany) -- Not only do portable coordinate measuring machines (PCMM) outplay their stationary colleagues when it comes to flexibility, they also impress with their attractive price. AICON now has a special offer for companies with simple measurement tasks: the low…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology, North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced the immediate availability of the new Leitz PMM-G series of gantry coordinate measurement machines (CMM) at Gear Expo 2009 being held this week in Indianapolis, Indiana. With improved specifications and additional…
Bill Kalmar
Quality professionals pride themselves in being efficient and are always searching for ways to improve their approach to improving processes. One of the methods for doing so is to have modern, up to date communication systems. Most people in the profession probably have the customary Blackberry…
Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium DMSC
(Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium: Arlington, TX) -- By special request, another DMIS and I++DME Training Workshop has been scheduled for the week of Oct. 5–8. Reservations may be made now. This may be the last workshop until spring of next year. All registration fees must be paid before…
ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions
(Carl Zeiss: Maple Grove, MN) -- Carl Zeiss IMT will be introducing the next generation of TiMS software, the ACCTeePro integrated software for surface finish, form, and geometry, at the 2009 Quality Expo held in Chicago on Sept. 22 –24. ACCTeePro, a product of Accretech, was developed with the…
