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ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions
(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- Carl Zeiss presents CALIGO, the new measuring software specially developed for car-body parts and free-form surfaces. Its optically impressive design and clearly structured interface make this measuring software very intuitive. Modular system architecture…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Filling a gap in current Bayesian theory, Murray Aitkin’s Statistical Inference: An Integrated Bayesian/Likelihood Approach (CRC Press, 2010) presents a unified Bayesian treatment of parameter inference and model comparisons that can be used with simple diffuse…
Spectronics Corp.
(Spectronics Corp.: Westbury, NY) -- The Spectroline FC-150 ultrahigh intensity UV inspection lamp has a built-in fan that reduces operating temperatures and prevents the lamp from becoming too hot to handle. This ensures greater comfort and safety for nondestructive testing (NDT) inspectors.…
National Association for Healthcare Quality
The Toyota Production System and U.S. health care improvement share a long history. What lessons can health care leaders learn from Toyota’s recent production troubles? A few experts recently discussed this on WIHI, an audio program sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Here…
Jon Padfield
On the evening of April 14, I boarded a plane to London, where I was scheduled to teach a series of continuous improvement classes. The following morning, as my flight neared the United Kingdom, the pilot announced that our flight was being diverted to Brussels due to a cloud of volcanic ash…
Tripp Babbitt
I challenge myself each day to hear something different. Sometimes this is about education, liberals, conservatives, tree-huggers, or many other opinions and topics that counter my perspective. For me, this develops new perspectives on problems and issues that service organizations face, even if…
(DrScore.com: Winston-Salem, NC) -- Patients’ interest in directing their own health care, combined with increasing comfort using online sources to seek and share information, are reasons why the physician-rating website DrScore.com has experienced a dramatic increase in traffic and physician…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The 2010 Baldrige Regional Conferences are set for Sept. 14 in Newport Beach, California, at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Spa; and Sept. 28 in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs. The conferences will showcase the best practices of 12 or…
ETQ LLC
(EtQ: Famingdale, NY) -- EtQ announces that its chief executive officer, Glenn McCarty, will be presenting a free, one-hour webinar, “Managing Your Risk Has Its Rewards: How Quantitative Risk Assessment Is Applied to Your Quality Management System,” on June 9 at 1 p.m. EDT.
This webinar will…
Olympus
(Olympus Corp.: Tokyo) -- Olympus Corp. will commence international sales of the 38DL PLUS ultrasonic thickness gauge. This new nondestructive testing device allows objects to be inspected without the need for destruction or disassembly.The gauge will go on sale in Japan in fall 2010.
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AME
(AME: Rockford, IL) -- Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (AME) announces the unveiling of www.ame.com, the company’s new corporate web site. AME is a provider of spindle interface and related machine tool components, plus metal-cutting sawing systems, hydraulic/pneumatic rod locks, safety…
Plex Systems Inc.
(Plex Systems: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Plex Systems Inc., provider of the No. 1-rated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for manufacturers, announces live demonstrations of Plex Online’s comprehensive ERP solution for motor vehicle suppliers and manufacturers on Tuesday, June 8, from 2 p.m.…
SICK
(SICK: Minneapolis) -- SICK, a global manufacturer of sensors, safety systems, machine vision, and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, announces the launch of the world’s first high-speed 3-D camera with high-quality color capability. By measuring the 3-D shape…
Sparta Systems Inc.
(Sparta Systems: Holmdel, NJ) -- Current and anticipated regulatory changes are the chief driver of life science organizations’ quality management initiatives, according to a recent poll by Sparta Systems Inc., the maker of TrackWise software. Of the quality professionals surveyed, 97 percent…
Michele DeMeo
A surgical technician prepares her back table for the next laparoscopic surgery. Instruments are removed from their containers and packages, and placed neatly on the back table. Chemical indicators show that sets and instruments are sterilized; the patient is prepped. The surgeon begins the…
Donald J. Wheeler
During the past 20 years it has become fashionable to condemn measurement processes that are less than perfect. Yet the reality is that we must always use imperfect data. Given this fact of life, how can we ever know if a measured item is or is not within the specifications? Put another way, how…
Georgia Institute of Technology
Children enjoy an exhibit demonstrating the applications of lasers. The GTRI researchers developed the museum-quality exhibits and are making them available for loan to K-12 schools.
Credit: Brian Childress
A dozen hands-on, museum-quality…
Veeco Instruments Inc.
(Veeco Instruments Inc.: Tucson, AZ) -- Veeco Instruments Inc., a global provider of precision instrumentation and metrology solutions for scientific and industrial markets, announced a new low-cost member of its ContourGT family of noncontact, 3-D optical surface profilers. The ContourGT-K0…
MicroRidge Systems Inc.
(MicroRidge Systems: Sunriver, OR) -- MobileCollect represents the third generation of wireless measurement collection from MicroRidge Systems Inc. Featuring new technology, new features, and new pricing, MobileCollect offers the greatest range of options and flexibility for wireless measurement…
(Italics Publishing: Toronto) -- Focused entirely on the realm of operations, Turnaround Strategies for Customer Centric Operations (Italics Publishing, 2010) brings straightforward, innovative approaches to the most commonly encountered challenges in operational restructuring. In author Ileana…
Rapidform Inc.
(INUS Technology Inc.: Seoul) -- INUS Technology Inc. has announced that the Mephisto 3-D scanner from 3D Dynamics now includes a license of Rapidform XOS. This powerful combination of hardware and software allows users to capture, process, and edit 3-D scans for a variety of purposes, including 3…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Telefónica, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, took top honors, winning the Gold Award in the 25th International Team Excellence Award Process at the 2010 ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement, held May 24–26, in St. Louis. A dynamic finalist competition included 28…
InterTech Development Co.
(InterTech Development Co.: Skokie, IL) -- Quality engineers seeking significant bottom-line effect by successfully speeding throughput in test-intensive assembly and test operations can now enlist high-speed testing software design services from InterTech Development Co.
Unlike machine…
Jack Healy
One of the more improbable business changes of our times has been caused by a number of corporations such as Walmart, General Motors, IBM, and others who have taken on the direct responsibility for improving the environment by ensuring that “sustainability” is implemented throughout their…
Stewart Anderson
I am often struck by a remark of W. Edwards Deming that the aim of a system must include plans for the future. As Deming wrote in The New Economics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994), “A system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system. The aim of the system must be clear to…
