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Quality Transformation With David Schwinn
As most of us know, on Oct. 5, 2011, we lost Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Amid all the reports of his life and death, one of his phrases stood out to me: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” The phrase ended his June 12, 2005, commencement address to the graduates of…
NIST
Why there is stuff in the universe—or more properly, why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter—is one of the long-standing mysteries of cosmology. A team of researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just concluded a 10-year-long study of…
Forrest Breyfogle—New Paradigms
Story update 11/13/2011: The references at the end of this article were inadvertently deleted during final editing. They have been restored.
During a Sept. 23, 2011, Quality Digest Live interview, I made several comments relative to business metrics and the need for an enhanced business…
CMSC
The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) announced today the results of their large-scale, interactive measurement study conducted at the 27th annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC).
The 58-page report entitled “How Behavior Impacts Your Measurement” focuses on measurement…
NIST
The international General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) has approved a plan to redefine four of the seven base units of the International System of Units (SI) in terms of fixed values of natural constants. The initiative would make possible new worldwide levels of consistency and…
Bill Kalmar
Just the other day as I was perusing our local newspaper, an ad for a pizzeria caught my attention. Included was a fact unbeknownst to me: October evidently was National Pizza Month. To celebrate this tasty month, some cities arranged chartered bus tours of the various pizzerias in their town.…
Daniel Brown
A lot has happened since computer-assisted metrology was invented. In its early stages, computer numerical controlled (CNC) machines were used to control manufactured parts, and it was not until the 1970s that computer-controlled coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) appeared on the market and…
Worldwide Speakers Group
(Worldwide Speakers Group: Alexandria, VA) -- Former U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and three-term governor, Michael O. Leavitt, has proposed a provocative plan to help revive the economy, drive productivity, and spur job creation: biomedical innovation.
In an article co-…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- A must-read for all managers, leaders, and change agents, Performance Hubs: Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement, by Marc Roberts (CRC Press, 2011), supplies a proven system for engagement that allows teams to use their own data, understand the need…
SPS Commerce
(SPS: Minneapolis, MN) -- SPS Commerce, a leading provider of on-demand supply-chain management solutions, has unveiled the Retail Universe, an online community that connects members of the retail supply chain, allowing organizations to identify new business partners and expand their e-commerce or…
Teledyne DALSA
(Teledyne: Waterloo, ON) -- Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in machine vision technology, has introduced its next-generation, user-programmable real-time image processing platform. The Xcelera-CL VX4 and Sapera APF deliver a powerful field-programmable gate…
Keyence Corp.
(Keyence: Osaka, Japan) -- The new VHX-1000 Digital Microscope from Keyence mixes high-performance digital microscopy with precision measurement. The VHX-1000 Series features a 16-bit imaging resolution that makes subtle color differences visible, and optimizes areas that are too dark or too…
Geomagic
(Geomagic: Morrisville, NC) -- Geomagic, the leading provider of 3-D software for creating and inspecting digital models of physical objects, today announced the release of its innovative 3-D imaging products: Geomagic Studio 2012, Geomagic Wrap 2012, Geomagic Qualify 2012, Geomagic Qualify…
Chuck Pfeffer
It was a dark and stormy evening as the graveyard shift started at Frankenstein’s Precision Parts. Tonight was the night: All of the parts for the Reanimation order were ready for inspection. The contracted inspector was due at midnight.
Just as the clock struck 12, a bolt of lightning…
Jay Arthur—The KnowWare Man
At a recent health-care conference I had a conversation with Mary, a Six Sigma Black Belt for a 700-bed hospital. She told me that the hospital had only a few copies of Minitab software, which was shared by several people. She was always being asked to close out of the program so that someone…
Automated Precision Inc.
(API: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc. (API) is offering new service and technology to the architectural, engineering, construction, and owner community (AEC&O). The director of business development for API, Mitch Schefcik, will lead API’s efforts in converting existing facilities…
InnovMetric Software
(InnovMetric: Québec City, Canada) -- InnovMetric Software Inc., a leading supplier of industrial 3-D metrology software solutions, is proud to unveil the world’s first relational inspection solution with PolyWorks V12. The PolyWorks new relational inspection architecture analyzes every single…
Delcam
(Delcam: Birmingham, UK) -- Delcam has launched a new website for its PowerINSPECT CAD-based inspection software. The site details the many benefits that have made PowerINSPECT a leading hardware-independent inspection software.
One of the most important factors has been the software’s…
Belinda Jones
The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) has released the long-awaited results of its large-scale, interactive measurement study conducted during the 2011 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), which was held July 25–29 in Phoenix. The 58-page report, “How Behavior Impacts Your…
Laser Design Inc.
(EM&C: West Columbia, SC) -- Engineered Metals and Composites Inc. (EM&C) is a premier original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of aluminum towers and small products for the marine industry. From T-tops, hard tops, and towers, to rod holders, leaning posts, rails, and poling platforms, the…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. and Hendrick Motorsports have announced a multiyear partnership agreement that makes Hexagon Metrology the official provider of dimensional metrology products and services to Hendrick Motorsports.
Hendrick Motorsports, winner of a record…
Rapidform Inc.
(Rapidform Inc.: Lakewood, CO) -- INUS Technology Inc., a world leader in providing technology, services, and software to unlock the power of 3-D scanning, announces the latest release of its turnkey Software Development Kit (SDK) for 3-D scanning application development. The updated version of…
Donald Jasurda
Manufacturers face many obstacles across the life cycle of delivering a product to market.
They often find themselves:
• Spending a lot of time reworking or repairing parts
• With parts that fail inspection, but fit and function properly when assembled
• With parts that pass…
William A. Levinson
The recent incident in which JetBlue stranded Flight 504’s passengers on a runway for seven hours reinforces the need for all but recreational travelers to adopt remote conferencing technology as rapidly as possible. It is past time to eliminate the need for the so-called services of an industry…
Meggitt
(Meggitt: San Juan Capistrano, CA) -- Meggitt Sensing Systems, designer and manufacturer of high-performance sensing and monitoring systems for air and land-based machinery in extreme environments, has introduced the Endevco model 71M series, a family of rugged, undamped subminiature surface…
