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Meggitt
(Meggitt Sensing Systems, San Juan Capistrano, CA) -- Meggitt Sensing Systems, a Meggitt group division, has announced the global market introduction of the Endevco model 4830A, a handheld, lightweight, battery-operated electronic instrument designed to simulate a variety of transducer outputs…
Michael Causey
Under pressure from all sides, the beleaguered Food and Drug Administration (FDA) keeps announcing new reorganization initiatives, name changes, and all sorts of stuff that would be funny if it was scripted by the same team handling Steve Carell’s departure from The Office and the ushering in…
Bill Kalmar
We are told that St. Peter has the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and that he stands in front of a wrought iron gate only allowing in certain people who have lived exemplary lives. I suspect that he has only one large key (maybe a skeleton key—heh, heh), unlike the millions of Americans who…
William A. Levinson
Frederick the Great stated that a general who tries to defend everything defends nothing. The same principle applies to business performance metrics: He who tries to measure everything measures nothing because it is impossible to focus effectively on “everything.”
The Defense Acquisition…
WCBF
(WCBF: Chicago) -- WCBF will be approving a limited number of storyboard/poster presentations for display at the WCBF 11th Annual Lean, Six Sigma, and Business Improvement in Healthcare Summit, taking place at the New Orleans Marriott, May 15–18, 2012.
Presenters will need to be available to…
Newport Corp.
(Newport Corp.: Irvine, CA) -- Newport Corp., a global leader in lasers and photonics solutions that “Make, Manage and Measure Light,” has announced its new vacuum-compatible LTA series actuators and the URS50B rotation stage for research and industry. These products are compatible to 10 × e-6…
(Global Industry Analysts Inc.: San Jose, CA) -- Global Industry Analysts Inc. has released “Industrial X-Ray Inspection Systems: A
Global Strategic Business Report.” It provides a comprehensive review of industry overview,
growth drivers, issues, and trends, end-use analysis, product overview…
(ClearEdge3D: Marshall, VA) -- Do you frequently face challenging, field-to-finish deadlines? Would you like to improve your firm’s workflow efficiency so that you can win more projects? Does adopting new technology offer as many potential risks for you as rewards?
If the answer is yes to…
Asia Pacific Quality Organization APQO
(Asia Pacific Quality Organization) -- The Armand V. Feigenbaum Lifetime Achievement Medal is being established by the Asia Pacific Quality Organization and the Walter L. Hurd Foundation. Named after Armand Feigenbaum, whose creative genius has added new dimensions to the quality body of…
FDAnews
(FDAnews: Falls Church, VA) -- FDAnews and LearningPlus are presenting an interactive workshop, From Training to Learning: Improving GMP Performance, to be held Oct. 26–27, 2011 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Click here to register and for further details.
Although there are more than 20…
American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI
Customer satisfaction across three durable goods industries stalled in 2011, with the majority of companies staying almost exactly where they were in 2010, according to a recent report by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The report covers customer satisfaction with personal…
Nikon Instruments Inc.
(Nikon: Melville, NY) -- Nikon has announced the winners of the 2011 Small World Photomicrography Competition, with this year’s top honors going to Igor Siwanowicz, Ph.D., with a micrograph that demonstrates the beauty in “ugly.”
When a small bug landed on Siwanowicz’s hand and began “…
FDAnews
(FDAnews: Falls Church, VA) -- The interactive workshop, Clinical Quality Assurance Roles and Responsibilities for Auditors and Managers, scheduled for Nov. 7–8, 2011, at the Radisson Hotel in Boston, is presented by MSceppa Consulting, provider of quality assurance consulting and auditing for…
Asia Pacific Quality Organization APQO
(APQO: Chicago) -- Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO) has announced the World Class Winners of the Global Performance Excellence Awards.
“We are pleased to announce that six organizations from six Asian and Pacific Rim countries are being recognized as exemplary companies of world class…
Pinpoint Laser Systems
(Pinpoint: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing a precision adjustable shim called the Microshim. This innovation is ideal for production plants, machine shops, utilities, and other industrial facilities where machinery must be precisely adjusted or leveled. Typical…
Palari Publishing
Why do some businesses thrive, while others flounder, unable to reach the next level? Through extensive research analyzing more than 100 businesses, management consultants Doug and Polly White discovered that the difference lies in how well the principal (i.e., the leader, owner, or…
Leica Geosystems
(Leica: Norcross, VA) -- Building on the success of its industry-leading Leica ScanStation C10 and C5 laser scanners, Leica Geosystems has announced advanced, onboard, and handheld scanner control firmware (v. 2.6) that provides increased high-definition surveying productivity and versatility…
(Consona: Indianapolis) -- Consona Corp., provider of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and services for companies of all sizes, and uniPoint Software Inc., developer and provider of software and services for quality management, continuous…
H. James Harrington
China is blessed with an abundance of hard-working, conscientious, and low-paid laborers who are driven to improve their living conditions. The result of their efforts has been a rapid and steady increase in production capabilities and demand for China-built products. Contrary to the approach…
Akhilesh Gulati
During a recent strategic planning session with a county’s leadership council, the participants were asked about their vision for their departments as they worked on a template for the strategic plan. Although there were many responses, one that stood out clearly came from the chief of one of…
Renishaw
(Renishaw: Wotton-Under-Edge, UK) -- On Oct. 12, 2011, Renishaw and Okuma will present a metrology seminar to address the need for increased process control, and provide details on the Productivity Pyramid, Renishaw’s systematic approach to reducing waste and variation in manufacturing…
GBMP
(GBMP: Boston, MA) -- The GBMP Lean Manufacturing Certificate Program—East is an eight-day learning event beginning Tues., Oct. 11, 2011, in Shirley, Massachusetts. It provides manufacturing and service professionals with fundamental tools and indispensable knowledge to implement continuous…
(3DX-Ray: Leicestershire, UK) -- 3DX-Ray Ltd., developer, manufacturer, and installer of X-ray inspection systems, has launched CatSpect, a new software module, within the 3DX-Ray standardized software suite, that will make the analysis of items even easier. A new icon-based interface enables…
CRAIC Technologies
(CRAIC: San Dimas, CA) -- CRAIC Technologies, a leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions, has introduced Lightswitch by CRAIC, an optical multiplexer for the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) regions. This unit is designed to attach to an open photoport to…
Accelper Consulting
(Accelper Consulting: Wheaton, IL) -- The Business Innovation Conference, which runs Oct. 10–12, 2011, at ITT Rice Campus in Wheaton, Illinois, is dedicated to the vigorous exchange of ideas on business innovation and innovative thinking. The conference, which is organized by Accelper…
