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Dawn Keller
My six-year-old came home from school one day very excited to let me know that Maggie’s mommy was a doctor and she helped sick people get better. Seems Maggie’s mommy was a “community hero.”
My unspoken response: Not Maggie’s mommy again.
You see, in preschool, Maggie’s mommy remembered to send…
Texas A and M News and Information Services
In an era of soaring medical costs, providing health care to employees at or near their workplace is gaining new momentum, according to an article in the Winter 2012 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review.
A 2011 study by the professional-services company Towers Watson and the nonprofit National…
Lista
(Lista: Holliston, MA) -- Lista International Corp., manufacturer of industry’s broadest line and customized storage and workspace solutions, offers its heavy-duty CNC tool storage cabinets and tool transporters, which form the core of the most complete storage system for the modern machining…
InfinityQS
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- The order is set, supply has arrived, and your team has momentum. After you’ve done everything else right, don’t let defects and defectives take success away by adding time, costs, and effort to what should be an easy win.
This no-cost two-part webinar series will…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology has released CoreView 6.0 for the Cognitens WLS400 series. Winner of Photonic Tech Brief’s 2011 Reader’s Choice Product of the Year, the WLS400 white light series is available in both automated and manual configurations. Coreview 6.0, the latest…
Timothy F. Bednarz
Teams are complicated, complex structures because they are comprised of individuals with different personalities, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Before people can form into an effective team, they must first learn to work together. Participants must work through personal differences, find…
Vision Components
(Vision Components: Ettlingen, Germany) -- VC Smart Inspect, the new vision sensor from Vision Components, the image processing experts, is an ultracompact and complete machine vision solution for a wide range of industrial applications. Featuring a 700 MHz processor with a computing power of 5,600…
FasTest Inc.
(FasTest: Minneapolis) -- FasTest announces TwistMate AN Step connectors for calibrating flow transmitters on flow benches. TwistMate AN Step connectors simplify flow bench step tree connections by delivering fast, leak-tight, threaded connections without the use of thread sealant and wrenches, and…
NIST
Physicists at JILA, a joint venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have created the first “frequency comb” in the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, high-energy light less than 100 nanometers (nm) in wavelength. Laser-…
Stephen F. DeAngelis
Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, is paying increasing attention to climate change, according to Carol Matlack, author of the special report “How Munich Re Assesses Risk,” published in the Dec. 2, 2010 issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
“The company [Munich Re] has the world’s most…
Davis Balestracci
Twenty years ago at a great conference, I learned a wonderfully simple model summarizing the personal change process. It complements the “ABC” model—which stands for activating event, beliefs, and consequential behavior, leading to results (R)—that I described in part one.
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Mitutoyo Corp.
(Mitutoyo: Aurora, IL) Mitutoyo America Corp. has released its new, High-Accuracy Digimatic Digital Micrometer, the first micrometer to offer 0.1 μm resolution measurement. Now high-accuracy measurement can be had in a convenient, handheld tool.
The High-Accuracy Digimatic Micrometer uses the…
Jim Frost
Story update 2/2/2012: We inadvertently used the wrong graphic for the Third Estimates. This has been fixed.
This is part three in a series where we assess what information we can obtain from the various estimates of quarterly GDP growth using statistical analysis and a control chart. Read part one…
InfinityQS
(Infinity: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, a leading provider of real-time quality control software solutions, has announced that six of the 10 2011 IndustryWeek (IW) Best Plants use its ProFicient statistical process control (SPC) platform for quality control and operational…
FARO
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- An emerging trend in laser scanning and building information modeling (BIM) comes from the adoption of repetitive scanning or ongoing project scanning. Here scans are taken at the very inception of the project, integrated into the model, and are continually taken to update…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- While teens rank some STEM-related (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers as offering the best chance of getting a job in the future, 67 percent of youth in grades 6–12 who are interested in pursuing a career in STEM say they are concerned about the obstacles they…
Juran
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- Juran Institute Inc. has announced the acquisition of Baldrige.com into its family of quality solutions and services. The site is not the same as the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Baldrige Performance Excellence Program site, which can be…
Boulder Imaging Inc.
(Boulder Imaging: Louisville, CO) -- Boulder Imaging, a leading imaging solutions company for machine vision applications, is releasing a new version of its Benchmark in- or off-line optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM).
Benchmark provides precise micron-level part measurement and…
Bruce Hamilton
Last week, a drive by a 99¢ Store (see photo) reminded me of my first real job in an industrial marketing department. During the 1970s, one function of this department was to set prices, a task simplified in the early going by the market’s acceptance of whatever surcharges we added each year.
In…
Jonathan Chowdhury
BusinessAssurance.com, the world’s first online management systems community, which is sponsored by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Inc., brings to you an interview with Mike Toffel, a leading management systems expert and an associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business…
Uson
(Uson: Houston) -- Quality engineers seeking leak-detection equipment that can be custom-configured to their unique test application requirements can now obtain a competitively priced and first-of-a-kind leak and flow tester from Uson, the Optima vT leak and flow tester.
Uson’s Optima vT includes…
Plex Systems Inc.
(Plex: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online, Cloud ERP for manufacturers, has added functionality to support complex assembly processes at manufacturing facilities.
The new options in Plex Online allow manufacturers to improve productivity and increase visibility into…
Allow me to come straight to the point. I am providing a limited number of full and partial scholarships for the MindPro Lean Six Sigma Online Training and Certification Program. The scholarships are being provided as a part of my working philanthropy initiative, which has now been extended due to…
Chartered Quality Institute
(CQI: London) -- The Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) and Chartered Management Institute (CMI) are joining forces to investigate the use of quality management systems (QMS) and their return on investment.
As the United Kingdom embarks on another year of economic uncertainty, employers and…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has announced the speaker line-up for the RAPID 2012 Conference and Exposition to be held May 22–25, 2012, in Atlanta. Keynote presentations, conference sessions, technical briefings, workshops, tours, the 3-D printing art gallery…
