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Quality Transformation With David Schwinn
As my wife, Carole, was recently preparing to begin another chapter in our forthcoming book, The Transformational Workplace, she found out that one of the people we interviewed on my sabbatical last year had just won the International Children’s Peace Prize. Her name is Michaela (Chaeli) Mycroft.…
Lista
Many manufacturing facilities have opted to follow the path toward a “5S” workplace as an element of lean manufacturing. Implementing 5S programs involves small teams working together to get materials closer to operations, right at workers’ fingertips and organized and labeled to facilitate…
Belinda Jones
At the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, the highlight of its Egyptian galleries is an elaborate and complete funerary assemblage from the tomb of a 2,300-year-old noblewoman named Meret-it-es. The initial room layout of the Egyptian galleries revealed the space would be…
Quality Digest
Direct Dimensions Inc. scanned “The Awakening,” a 70 ft long sculpture from J. Seward Johnson. The sculpture depicts an enormous man struggling to rise out of the earth, which was a fixture at Washington D.C.’s Hains Point for decades. In a single day, cranes, trucks, and barges converged on the…
Belinda Jones
SolarReserve’s first-generation solar power plant is a welcome sign of green progress. Once the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is completed in 2013, it will generate roughly 480,000 megawatt hours per year of clean, renewable electricity to power 75,000 homes during peak electricity periods.…
CyberMetrics Corp.
(Cybermetrics: Phoenix) -- Cybermetrics, developer of calibration and maintenance management, and supply chain software solutions, is offering a no-cost seminar on Wed., May 16, 2012, in Schaumburg, Illinois, at the Gateway Executive Park, 1821 Walden Office Square, Suite 400.
Attendees will learn…
Automated Precision Inc.
(API: Rockville, MD -- Automated Precision Inc. (API) has released the latest generation of its hand-held probing and scanning instrument, the I-360. The new I-360 features an ergonomic handle grip that is easier to use when taking measurements and a lighter body weight of just 3 pounds. This…
Nikon Metrology Inc.
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Metrology CT is the fusion of metrology and X-ray computed tomography (CT). X-ray has long been used for industrial applications. With X-ray CT, a number of 2-D X-ray images are taken at different angles around the sample. All the external and internal geometry…
Siemens PLM Software
(Siemens PLM Software: Plano, TX) -- Today’s manufacturing leaders are constantly assessing their ability to become more flexible, more sustainable, and competitive, but this requires the determination to continually assess production capability in the most efficient means possible. Siemens PLM…
Dimensional Control Systems DCS
(DCS: Troy, MI) -- Dimensional Control Systems Inc. (DCS), a provider of quality management software solutions and consulting services, will hold its 2012 Global Technology & User Conference (GTC) on May 22–23, 2012, in Detroit at the historic Atheneum Suite Hotel.
Nearly 100 participants are…
U.S. Department of Commerce
(U.S. Department of Commerce: Washington, D.C.) -- “We are finally the ‘in’ thing,” said Roger Kilmer, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) to the more than 800 manufacturers and industry experts gathered at the…
Michell Instruments
(Michell Instruments: Rowley, MA) -- The S8000 Remote chilled mirror hygrometer, from Michell Instruments, manufacturer of high-precision moisture and humidity measurement solutions, is among the most precise instruments currently available for emissions testing and can be used as a primary…
CloudClean
(CloudClean: Edgewater, NJ) -- Leaving hand-washing compliance up to fate and a restroom sign is a thing of the past, according to CloudClean, creators of the first real-time hand hygiene compliance system for the restaurant and food service industry.
Using the same hand washing compliance…
Forrest Breyfogle—New Paradigms
I will first describe how long-lasting business metrics can be created at the business level and then illustrate the 30,000-foot-level scorecard tracking of these measurements, where an individuals control chart is used to determine process stability. Then I will show how to make a prediction…
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc.
The Frederic Remington Museum is dedicated to displaying, observing, and preserving the works of Frederic Remington. Most famous for his bronze sculptures of cowboys, American Indians, and U.S. Calvary, original Remington pieces are considered prized collector’s items.
The Frederic Remington…
jeffdewar
Editor’s note: This is the fourth of a four-part video interview with Juran Institute’s CEO Joseph DeFeo, and hosted by Quality Digest’s CEO, Jeff Dewar. View part one here, part two here, and part three here.
“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy…
Thomas R. Cutler, Rich McGrath
Editor’s note: In this first part of a multipart series on quality in education, we will provide an overview of the current state of quality education issues. In addition, a few of the lean practices that are now being adopted by education thought leaders will be shared.
Schools and businesses are…
Creaform Inc.
(Creaform: Québec City) -- Do you have an existing 3-D concept? Are you are looking for a flexible 3-D scanner with dynamic referencing? Would you like to get a parametric 3-D CAD? Join Creaform for a no-cost webinar on Tues. May 15, 2012 at 9 a.m. EDT. This webinar explains how you can digitize…
University of Michigan
(University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Portable gas sensors can allow you to search for explosives, diagnose medical conditions through a patient’s breath, and decide whether it’s safe to stay in a mine.
These devices do all this by identifying and measuring airborne chemicals, and a new, more…
Ron Kaufman
Spirit Airlines recently flew into a big public relations disaster. Sticking to a no-refunds policy, the airline refused to refund the airfare of a passenger who had to cancel his trip after finding out he has terminal cancer. Then social media took off with Spirit’s reputation at its mercy. The…
Lean Frontiers
(Lean Frontiers: Indianapolis) -- The Key Concepts for Lean Leadership workshop, scheduled for June 5–6, 2012 in Indianapolis, is designed for those truly passionate about lean and interested in moving beyond “tools” to a management system with respect for people at its foundation. The workshop is…
Accelper Consulting
(Accelper: Schaumburg, IL) -- In his book, The Innovation Solution (CreateSpace, 2012), Praveen Gupta provides readers with an easy-to-understand, powerful innovation framework for success at the personal and organizational levels. Gupta explains the various aspects of innovation and how it affects…
Katie Gignac
Any company that truly lives its quality management system will tell you that you must innovate to get ahead. Employees at GNP Co., the chicken processor formerly known as Gold’n Plump, live by a commitment to quality, innovation, and continuous improvement— all hallmarks of a culture built on the…
William A. Levinson
The ISO 14001 environmental management systems (EMS) standard and the new ISO 50001 energy management systems (EnMS) standard are complementary, synergistic, and mutually supporting systems for improving stakeholder value. ISO 50001’s proposed reference to greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction is, however…
(Chief Executive Group: Greenwich, CT) -- For the eighth year in a row, CEOs rate Texas as the No. 1 state in which to do business, according to Chief Executive magazine’s annual Best & Worst States Survey, released May 2, 2012. Florida rose one spot to take the No. 2 rank, while North Carolina…
