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MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended-learning support technologies, has released EngineRoom-based versions of its popular lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt online training courses. Each course now includes a…
Lean Enterprise Institute
(Lean Enterprise Institute: Cambridge, MA) -- Next year’s Lean Transformation Summit explores lean practice from two angles. From a Fundamental perspective, you’ll see how large and small companies in a variety of industries launched and sustained lean transformations. The same companies also will…
On Sept. 4, 2010, an earthquake that registered 7.1 on the Richter scale rocked Christchurch, New Zealand. It lasted 40 seconds but felt more like 40 minutes. This was the worst experience l’ve ever been through, but I managed to stay in bed (yes, I hid under the covers).
I live in the city’s…
Bruker Corp.
(Bruker Corp.: Boston) -- At the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall 2010 meeting taking place Nov. 29–Dec.3, Bruker Corp. has unveiled the AcuityXR, an optical surface profiler that combines patent-pending Bruker hardware and software technology to enable select ContourGT noncontact, 3-D…
Creaform Inc.
(Creaform: Levis, Quebec) -- Creaform, a global manufacturer of 3-D measurement technologies, presents at Euromold and to the entire world its new MetraSCAN optical CMM 3-D scanner.
The portable, arm-free MetraSCAN 3-D scanner and the C-Track 780 dual camera sensor are used to take precise…
Extensible CAD Technologies
(Extensible CAD Technologies: Raleigh, NC) -- Extensible CAD Technologies has released an enhanced version of InspectionXpert First-Article. The software helps companies automate their quality-control inspection processes by providing a faster and more accurate way to balloon CAD drawings and…
Michael R. Frecks
Managing point data sets is already a concern for clients. Now the surveying industry promotes its efficiency at the cost of best practices with a million-point-per-second milestone. Check out the article, “Optech Breaks 1m/sec Barrier,” in the Oct. 5, 2010, issue of SparView. I liken this…
LRQA Business Assurance
(LRQA: London) -- Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) has renewed its commitment to “business assurance” as the foundation of its brand, a move management believes better illustrates the wider benefits that its global service portfolio brings to the market.
The announcement came as the…
Jon Miller
The Toyota Production System (TPS) house diagram is often drawn with a triangular roof, a rectangular foundation, and two rectangular columns between the foundation and roof. The space between the columns is filled with one’s choice of the systems, tools, and principles to suit the lean enterprise…
(The Graduate School: Washington, DC) -- The W. Edwards Deming Award is awarded annually to a government organization that demonstrates transformative training excellence. The award encourages organizations to pursue employee education initiatives that will measurably improve the organization’s…
(Tiger Optics LLC: Warrington, PA) -- The HALO-500-H2O, designed to measure higher levels of moisture in gases, is gaining notice from gas manufacturers and metrology institutes, reports Tiger Optics LLC, the manufacturer that developed the product at the behest of its London-based representative…
AIAG
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- AIAG, a not-for-profit, member-supported organization that works with a wide range of manufacturing companies and service providers to help them operate at peak performance, announced the publication of Recommended Business Practices for Long-Distance Supply Chains, a…
(GE Measurement & Control Solutions: Huerth, Germany) -- The new DMS Go from GE’s Inspection Technologies is a high-end thickness gauge that provides accurate and comprehensive thickness-inspection data in a range of selectable formats. It incorporates joystick control, a high all-round…
ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions
(Carl Zeiss: Maple Grove, MN) -- Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology has announced King Machine as a new distributor of Zeiss metrology equipment for Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. King Machine, with a Precision Measurement Center in Boise (Meridian), Idaho, will represent the full line of Zeiss…
(University of Illinois: Champaign, IL) -- The long, anxious wait for biopsy results could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a tissue-imaging technique developed at the University of Illinois. The new microscopy technique, called “nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging” (NIVI), was…
David Smithstein
I recently read an article on the Quality Digest website titled, “Deming, Systems Thinking, and the Future,” by Tripp Babbitt, who specializes in systems thinking. His article starts with, “W. Edwards Deming did a great disservice. He left a prescription for what the United States should do to…
Barbara A. Cleary
Signs in factories or on the back of long-range trucking rigs sometimes proclaim “X days since our last accident” or “No on-the-job injuries since 1964.” Extending the stretch between such accidents may be motivated by this announcement alone, but there are better ways to diminish or prevent…
NIST
A new chemical analysis technique developed by a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses the shifting ultrasonic pitch of a small quartz crystal to test the purity of only a few micrograms of material. Because it works with samples close to a thousand times…
3D Systems
(3D Systems: Rock Hill, SC) -- 3D Systems announces that it will showcase its entire suite of 3-D content-to-print solutions at the 2010 EuromoldWorldFair to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 1–4, in Hall 11, booths D46 and E26.
The company plans to introduce several new 3-D printers at…
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC: Washington DC) -- As the holidays approach and toy catalogs begin to arrive in the mail, toy shoppers can become overwhelmed with all the choices. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) wants parents and consumers to know that safeguards put in place in recent years are making a…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released an updated version of a computer system testing tool that can cut costs by more efficiently finding flaws.
Catching software “bugs” before a program is released enhances computer…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Recently, Industry Week (IW) announced the 10 inductees to its 2010 Manufacturing Hall of Fame, a “lineup of industrial superstars whose collective careers have had an immeasurable impact and influence on U.S. manufacturing.”
Included in the list of IW’s manufacturing “dream team,” alongside…
Bill Kalmar
Lately, the airwaves have been bristling with news of increased airport security screenings. What used to be a relatively easy process to board a plane has become an ordeal that every day brings forth a cacophony of complaints from passengers and even pilots. The new check-in rules, wherein…
Capture 3D
(Capture 3D: Novi, MI) -- See what’s NEW and BLUE at Capture 3D. Mark your calendar for Dec. 8. Capture 3D invites you to have lunch with its Michigan team in Novi and spend a couple of hours learning about the latest metrology technology and participate in live demos.
There are two sessions…
Zontec
(Zontec Inc.: Cincinnati) -- Zontec Inc. has announced 10 new features for its Synergy 1000T v. 7.0 statistical process control (SPC) software that is due for general release Dec. 1.
Synergy 1000 is designed for quality improvement on stand-alone PCs and local work-group computers. The…
