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The Pyzdek Institute
(Pyzdek Institute: Tucson) -- The Pyzdek Institute LLC has added two online lean training classes to its portfolio of online courses on process excellence topics. The new courses are written and presented by Thomas Pyzdek, author of The Six Sigma Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2009), The Handbook of…
The Joint Commission
(The Joint Commission: Oakbrook Terrace, IL) -- The Joint Commission, a health-care accrediting body, and SGS Group, a verification, inspection, certification, and testing company, are joining forces to offer hospitals and critical-access hospitals in the United States the option of pursuing…
Gallup
Telltale markers are everywhere: the sliver of plastic clipped to a key chain, the colorful card positioned deep inside a purse, the frequent e-mail reminders about a “special” deal available only to members of a maybe not-so-exclusive club. These are just a few of the loyalty and rewards…
Columbia Business School
(Columbia Business School: New York) -- Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness has announced the winners of the second annual Deming Cup. The winners received the award at a dinner at Columbia University on Nov. 2, 2011. The Deming Cup…
Bosch Rexroth
(Bosch Rexroth: Hoffman Estates, IL) -- Developed with lean manufacturing expert, Richard Rahn, Rexroth’s lean manufacturing podcast episode 17, “Lean Transformation in the Aerospace Supply Chain,” explores how to apply lean manufacturing concepts to the aerospace industry to improve…
Thomas R. Cutler
In a little more than a month, the U.S. presidential primaries will begin; in a year the national election will be upon us. To most politicians, most Americans, and the millions of unemployed, no issue is greater than creating jobs in the United States.
Calls for funding and stimulus…
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
(RWJF: Houston) -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced an Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) $100,000 “app challenge”—a competition among technology developers to create easy-to-use online tools that help consumers find information on the quality of their local physicians…
ISPE
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), a global nonprofit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals who use knowledge to create high-quality, cost-effective good manufacturing practices (GMP) solutions, will soon…
Pipeline Analytics
(Pipeline Analytics: Pittsburgh) -- New for WinCan V8 pipe inspection and asset management software, the WinCan Laser module from Pipeline Analytics makes it easy to capture pipeline geometry using a video-inspection crawler outfitted with practically any laser profiling hardware.
“Until now,…
QuantumVision Corp.
(QuantumVision Corp.: Roswell, GA) -- QuantumVision Corp., manufacturer, designer, and implementer of custom machine vision solutions, has created the Hammerhead, the industry’s first 3-D stereo smart vision system. The system integrates twin 1.3 megapixel imagers and 5 megapixel gray scale or…
Knowledge at Wharton
Armed with powerful mobile devices, consumers and employees have become the force behind a wireless wave of change. Whether they are seeking discounted prices or looking to coordinate a sales campaign, these mobile end users are growing impatient with companies that are still trying to control…
Mark R. Hamel
I’m certainly no physicist, but I think there’s a worthy analogy between the decay of radioisotopes and lean behavior within an organization.
According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ webpage on Radiation Emergency Medical Management: • “Radioactive half-life is the time…
InnovMetric Software
(InnovMetric: Québec City, Canada) -- InnovMetric Software Inc., a global supplier of industrial 3-D metrology software solutions, is proud to unveil the world’s first relational inspection solution with PolyWorks v. 12. The new relational inspection architecture analyzes every single step in a…
Agistix
(Agistix: Redwood City, CA)--Agistix, a global provider of transportation management solutions, has announced the launch of Total Visibility. This packaged solution delivers real-time visibility to counter blind spots of inbound, third-party, and international shipment data which have…
Techno-Omil
(Techno-Omil: New Hyde Park, NY) -- A new series of two-finger parallel grippers from Techno-Omil feature a heavy-duty T-slot design. Identified as the OPP2 series, these nine grippers feature a stroke range from 12 mm to 72 mm and a gripping force from 420 N to 8410 N. Their range of operating…
Reis Robotics
(REIS: Obernburg, Bavaria) -- REIS Robotics, a leader in system integration of robots, has completely revised its RH robot series and greatly improved its use for removal, insertion, and spray robots in the casting foundry.
The series comprises two robot types with six axes up to a load…
IDS Imaging Development Systems
(IDS: Woburn, MA) -- IDS GmbH, the headquarters for IDS Imaging Development Systems and a global leader in machine vision technology, has unveiled the UI–2280SE, an ideal all-round camera with USB 2.0 interface and Sony ICX655 CCD sensor in 5 megapixel resolution (2448 pixels × 2050 pixels). The…
Knowledge at Wharton
Innovation is a tough word to define, but most would say they know it when they see it. At a recent Wharton Women in Business conference, participants were asked to discuss their personal definitions of the term and give a concrete example from their own experiences. Here is a look at what they…
Christine Park
We’ve heard of the recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decisions to increase the focus of inspections on management with executive responsibility. There have been at least two warning letters issued this year with observations targeted in this area.
Although there are 26 references to…
Tripp Babbitt
Information technology is failing us. Service organizations the world over have been left to sift through the carnage of IT projects that have failed. Undeterred, they seem to quickly embrace the next IT project before the last is given a proper burial.
The research and evidence on failed IT…
FARO
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., a global provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, has launched the next generation of its innovative laser scanner, the Focus3D. Complete with new features that enhance registration and remote functionality, this newest Focus3D…
Capture 3D
(Capture 3D: Farmington Hills, MI) -- To better service its growing customers and address the increased demand for automated solutions, Capture 3D has relocated its Novi, Michigan, facility to Farmington Hills, Michigan. With twice the size, this new facility includes increased space for the…
Assembly Guidance Systems Inc.
(Assembly Guidance: Chelmsford, MA) -- Assembly Guidance Systems Inc., a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of high-performance laser projection systems for manual manufacturing and quality monitoring, has delivered a 20-projector laser system for wind-turbine blade fabrication.
Following a…
Institute for Healthcare Improvement IHI
(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a major catalyst for improvements in health care quality in the United States and around the world, will host its 23rd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care Dec. 4–7, 2011, at the Orlando World Center…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology has announced the relocation of its Michigan Precision Center to a purpose-built, state-of-the-art facility on a campus-like setting in Wixom, Michigan. The 26,000 sq. ft. facility includes a spacious calibration laboratory, enhanced…
