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AIA
(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Overall machine vision sales should increase by 2.6 percent to 4.6 percent in 2010, depending upon the extent of the current economic recovery and the rate of change in industrial production that occurs. This follows a 29.2-percent decline experienced in 2009.
The…
TÜVRheinland
(TÜVRheinland: Newtown, CT) -- TÜVRheinland, a provider of global market access, will present seminars about CE marking and the CB Sheme at the World Trade Center of Central Pennsylvania’s 2010 International Trade Conference. The event, which is organized in partnership with the U.S. Department of…
Xspect Solutions Inc.
(Xspect Solutions Inc.: Wixom, MI) -- Wenzel Group GmbH acquired German-based Steintek Optical Measuring Systems in the summer of 2009 and is now making available through Xspect Solutions Inc. the optical high-speed measuring sensors for the North American marketplace.
Marketed now under the…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is now offering professionals the ASQ Master Black Belt Certification, a new addition joining the Society’s 18 certification programs available around the globe.
This newest certification is aimed at individuals who seek a universally…
Greg Hutchins
Quality Digest Daily recently ran “Safety and Quality Experts Named to Toyota Quality Advisory Panel” as one of their top-read articles.
Good. I had missed it, so I read the article. I noticed was that it wasn’t an article, but a press release describing what Toyota was doing to remediate…
(PLMplus Inc.: Framingham, MA) -- PLMplus Inc. has announced the beta release of PLMplus for medical device manufacturers, an on-demand, subscription-based solution that combines quality management system (QMS) and product life-cycle management (PLM) features into a single, integrated, ready-to-…
Mary F. McDonald
In one scene from the movie “Precious,” we see the main character, Clarisse Precious Jones, getting ready for school in the morning. We see this obese African American teen put on a red headband—but looking in the mirror, we see the red headband on a pretty, thin blonde teen. She picks up and puts…
Almost two years ago, the management team of the Indiana Toll Road (ITR Concession Co. LLC) and the Chicago Skyway Bridge (Skyway Concession Co. LLC) decided that implementing a quality management system compliant with ISO 9001 would be a useful tool for driving continual improvement. The shared…
PPT VISION Inc.
(PPT VISION: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION announces IMPACT 9.1 Software Suite, the latest edition in the company’s sophisticated machine vision software platform. IMPACT 9.1 enhances the previous pattern find tool with its powerful Pinpoint Pattern Find tool, which offers exceptional…
Bosch Rexroth
(Bosch Rexroth: Buchanan, MI) -- Bosch Rexroth is offering advice on how to incorporate lean principles into the design of a new factory, or expansion of an existing factory, in an episode of their lean manufacturing podcast series.
Developed with lean manufacturing expert Jamie Flinchbaugh,…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- Millions of toys have been recalled around the world because of hazardous levels of lead or cadmium, choking hazards, dangerous magnets, and other safety hazards. Two new standards in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 8124 toy safety series aim to reduce the…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) and its printed companion, the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the much-anticipated successors to the…
Geomagic
(Geomagic: Research Triangle Park, NC) -- Geomagic will demo the latest versions of its Geomagic Studio reverse engineering and Geomagic Qualify quality inspection software for the first time in the United States in booth No. 212 at the RAPID 2010 conference and exposition, May 18–20 in Anaheim,…
Association For Manufacturing Technology AMT
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- The U.S. manufacturing technology consumption during March totaled $258 million, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S.…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- Manufacturing practitioners, designers, educators, and students have been using the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ (SME) textbook classic Fundamentals of Tool Design for more than 40 years to gain an in-depth understanding of all the factors that affect tool success…
(GxPi Ltd.: Nottingham, UK)– Regulatory compliance experts GxPi announce the availability of its leading electronic document management system (eDMS) “x-docs” as a hosted software service. x-docs hosted enables small and medium-sized organizations in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and health…
(Phase Vision: Leicestershire, UK) -- Originally developed for the most demanding conditions in the aerospace sector, Phase Vision pioneered the development of white-light 3-D scanners for the shop floor, aircraft hangar, or dockyard. The Quartz range is being launched after months of testing in…
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc.
(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc. (KMSA), a global provider of industrial measurement of color, light, and shape, announces the launch of the all-new ShopKMSA.com. Now customers can shop Konica Minolta’s full catalog online anytime, day or night.
This online…
Akhilesh Gulati
Business owners get so engrossed in running their businesses that they get into a rut and wonder why they are not able to lower their “handicaps.”
Learning to lower one’s golf scores can be quite a challenging task. For most handicap players the short game presents the best opportunity to…
R. Eric Reidenbach Ph.D.
Quality Digest Daily recently published the results of a survey of 415 manufacturers and 179 retailers that was “designed to identify the top business and supply chain issues, as well as how manufacturers and retailers expect to leverage IT resources to address those objectives and challenges…
Mike Micklewright
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K, so I used this title as an attention grabber. I’m sure that I’ve already upset some people with this title and they will proclaim to never read my column or newsletter again… at least until the next edition. You should know me by now. When I want to make a point I sometimes get a little…
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ
(AHRQ: Rockville, Maryland) -- Using bar-code technology with an electronic medication administration record (eMAR) substantially reduces transcription and medication administration errors, as well as potential drug-related adverse events, says a new study funded by the Department of Health &…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- ASQ’s Six Sigma Forum is sponsoring a combination expert panel roundtable discussion, featuring guest speaker, long-time Quality Digest contributor Thomas Pyzdek, renown author and founder of Six Sigma Training.org, on May 26, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., at the World Conference on…
Kimber Evans
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ontinuous quality improvement is something from which any company can benefit. Here at Quality Digest, we are just as much at risk of getting caught in the same-old, same-old as the next guy. However, in the past 18 months, we have taken great strides to bring new and innovative products and…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Montreal) -- Manufacturing in Quebec has done an about face. In the depths of the recent recession, pundits were claiming that recovery would be a long and slow road for the manufacturing sector in Quebec. But on the heels of one blockbuster announcement after another in the aerospace market…
