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Carrie Van Daele
My phone wasn’t working, so I got in touch with my phone-line provider. Two technicians came to my house expecting to fix my line, but they worked for more than an hour until they admitted they had no idea how to correct the problem. These technicians were maybe 25 years old. I heard one of them…
Taran March @ Quality Digest
Lately the momentum to outdistance a nagging sense of being left behind has accelerated for businesses. So many predictions about the digital workplace come tinged with a sense of urgency that it’s hard not to feel chivvied by time and circumstance. No matter that the future of doing business is…
Paula Oddy, Jeffrey Eves
In the years since ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 were first published, many organizations have followed the models of these standards in designing their own management systems. However, many of those systems haven’t been utilized to effectively manage risk. Many have been minimally developed to meet…
greenlight.guru
(greenlight.guru: Indianapolis, IN) -- greenlight.guru recently announced the public release of its cloud-based quality management software exclusively for the medical device community. greenlight.guru allows medical device manufactures to bring new products to market faster while reducing risk by…
Patrick Beauchemin
There are several methods for inspecting laser-drilled and electrical discharge machined cooling holes on aircraft engine turbine blades, vanes, nozzles, heat shields, and other similar parts. These holes are essential features of the cooling systems that protect critical components against the…
Dan Nelson
The game of billiards offers a useful analogy to explain risk-based thinking and “risk to quality” (i.e., the risk to achieving quality objectives). Like any game, billiards involves navigating risk. Survival in an open global marketplace, like billiards, is also a game of risk.
The association…
(VSL: Noordwijk, Netherlands) -- VSL has announced the keynote speaker for this year’s European Flow Measurement Workshop (EFMW), scheduled for March 17–19, 2015, in Noordwijk, Netherlands. Reinier den Hertog, principal technical expert for metering, hydrocarbon allocation, and deferment…
Michelle LaBrosse
In their 2009 study, “Managing Cross-Cultural Differences,” Frank Anbari and his collaborators looked at different project management (PM) practices across the globe and noted that project managers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia ranked as the most “individualistic” in…
Steve Moore
A rough draft of this column had been sitting in the “drafts” folder on my computer for several weeks. Rip Stauffer’s recent commentary, “Is Six Sigma Dead?” prompted me to dust it off and finish it.
In my not-so-humble opinion, Six Sigma is not dead but “management commitment” sure is—or maybe…
Ron Brown
Consumer packaged goods companies have a number of challenges to face in the global marketplace, including managing higher costs of raw materials and labor, complying with global regulatory requirements, and capturing market share through mergers and acquisitions. They also need to determine how…
InfinityQS
(InfinityQS: Fairfax, VA) -- InfinityQS International Inc., the global authority on real-time quality and manufacturing intelligence, recommends five ways pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers can use enterprise quality systems, manufacturing intelligence platforms, and automated device…
Clara Asmail
Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, provides cost-effective solutions to vexing industrial problems. The series of tests and evaluations against requirements can often be thought of as experiments. Those experiments could be considered R&D from the point of view of tax law. Wait. What…
Jennifer Hart Yim
With supply-chain industry leaders lamenting a growing talent gap, tapping the millennial generation may be key to filling that gap. But how, exactly? A closer look at the generational characteristics emerging from the influence of digital technology and pervasive interconnectedness allows us to…
Davis Balestracci
I have evolved to using fewer, simpler tools in my consulting and have never been more effective, as I commented upon in my last column. It made me ponder the relevance of much of what I learned in my master’s statistics program. Thinking of the most basic concepts, I decided to look up what the…
Mike Richman
The life of a man, especially a man like Quality Digest founder Don Dewar, is punctuated by a series of events that shape not only him, but those he touches as he moves through his life.
From his birth in Canada in 1928, to his emigration to the United States in his early twenties, through his…
Brenda Percy
When it comes to choosing quality management system (QMS) software for your organization, there is much to consider. Every QMS has nuances that may cause you to wonder what software will provide the most value and prove to be truly effective. Keep in mind there are basic quality management…
InnovMetric Software
(InnovMetric: Quebec, QC) -- InnovMetric Software is proud to announce that the PolyWorks|Talisman mobile app is now available for Android mobile devices.
PolyWorks|Talisman is an app that boosts 3D measurement productivity on the shop floor. It allows probing and laser scanning operators to…
Third Dimension
(Third Dimension: Bristol, UK) -- Third Dimension has developed a new innovative solution to solve the challenges of measuring automotive seal gaps. The solution is well proven in automotive applications, and has been tested with a leading luxury automotive manufacturer, accurately measuring gaps…
Nikon Metrology Inc.
Kiekert AG, the global leader for automobile door lock systems, now uses digital cross scanners by Nikon Metrology to test the positions and dimensions of sealing lips on door and rear compartment locks. Tactile inspection methods are unable to correctly measure these touch-sensitive and complex…
Exact Metrology
(Exact Metrology: Cincinnati, OH) -- Exact Metrology, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has acquired a new Metrology Grade GE Phoenix v|tome|x m, a CT scanner system with dual tube technology, nanofocus to 180Kv and microfocus to 300Kv, significantly expanding the company’s capability in 3D scanning to 2…
Masashi Sato
In the manufacturing industry, it is ideal to ensure high manufacturing accuracy without the need for inspection. In fact, however, the inspection and the measurement processes are performed for various reasons, such as to secure the product traceability, to visualize the quality of production,…
Verisurf Software Inc.
(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf has announced the addition of two key coordinate metrology experts to its growing sales team. Tom Moon has joined Verisurf as North American sales manager, and Pat Bass has joined as regional sales manager for California and Arizona.
“We are pleased to have Tom…
ECM Global Measurement Solutions
(ECM: Topsfield, MA) -- ECM Global Measurement Solutions (ECM) has announced a new partnership as the sole North American training provider for the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
“This new partnership has been the foundation of our education and training course development in the United…
GE has introduced a metrology package for highly efficient, extremely precise 3D metrology performed with computed tomography (CT). The company states the enormous efficiency benefits, the use of industrial CT for nondestructive failure and structure analysis, and 3D metrology (especially for…
(Virtek: Waterloo, Canada) -- Virtek Vision International Inc., a market leader in laser templating and laser inspection technology for multiple industries, reached a milestone in November with production of its 10,000th laser projector. The Virtek LPS 7 series projector has advanced scanning…
