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BSI
With security breaches on the rise, protecting your organization’s confidential and valuable information assets is one of the most important safety measures your organization can take. The issues surrounding information security involve more than just hackers and malicious software; they can…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- Implementation of ISO management system standards for food safety and for information security (with IEC) has sharply increased, as revealed by The ISO Survey of Certifications—2008.
Certification to ISO 22000:2005, which gives the requirements for food safety management…
Pinpoint Laser Systems
(Pinpoint Laser Systems: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing the “Transparent” Receiver to the Microgage 2-D family. This receiver allows a laser beam to pass clearly through it while making a precise position measurement for aligning machinery and equipment. It was introduced…
(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- Lean manufacturing, or more precisely, lean management began on the shop floor, but a growing number of companies are realizing that its ability to cut costs and lead times while improving productivity and quality has application throughout the business. These companies…
Teledyne DALSA
(DALSA: Billerica, MA) -- DALSA , a global leader in digital imaging technology, announces the introduction of its XRI-1600 digital image processor , which is ideal for X-ray imaging applications. Specifically engineered for demanding X-ray instrumentation and radioscopy, the XRI-1600 is capable…
LeanSSC
(LeanSSC: Seattle) -- The Lean Software and Systems Consortium (LeanSSC) 2010 announces its inaugural U.S. conference to take place in Atlanta, April 21-23, at the JW Marriott - Buckhead. The conference will be the first formal community event tailored specifically to those interested in lean,…
Spectronics Corp.
(Spectronics Corp.: Westbury, NY) -- Spectronics Corp. has introduced the TRITAN 450 blue light (450 nm) LED lamp, a safe and effective alternative to UV-A black light (365 nm) for quick NDT pre-inspection or screening of fluorescent particles.
This powerful, hand-held unit is designed…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
In late November management system registrars DNV and Intertek announced that they were in discussions regarding a potential to unite their business assurance activities. According to sources at DNV, Intertek will be purchasing DNV’s business unit DNV Business Assurance. This unit, which works…
Bruce Rosenstein
In a legendary 70-year career, Peter Drucker, “the father of modern management,” revolutionized modern business practices, transforming management theory into a serious discipline. His influence was far-reaching, extending to developments that included decentralization, privatization, and…
Capture 3D
Because of their size, wind turbines are transported in individual parts to their offshore setup destination. Because individual components are manufactured at different sites, they are often put together for the first time at the mounting site on high seas. Therefore, it is necessary to verify…
NIST
(NIST: Washington) -- President Barack Obama and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke recently announced that five organizations are the recipients of the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest presidential honor for innovation and performance excellence.
The 2009 Baldrige…
Rapidform Inc.
(INUS Technology: Seoul, South Korea) -- INUS Technology Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into sales agreements to offer its Rapidform software to the buyers of Steinbichler Optotechnik’s 3-D digitizing systems and the buyers of Breuckmann’s 3-D scanners. While INUS and…
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: New York) -- Lean thinking has been linked to most core business processes, including product development, manufacturing, purchasing, accounting, and the supply chain. Lean Safety: Transforming Your Safety Culture with Lean Management, by Robert Hafey (Productivity Press, 2009…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: Austin, TX) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. recently announced a new method that enables rapid and accurate identification and quantification of pesticides in rice. The QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe) extraction method takes advantage of…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) -- METTLER-TOLEDO, a global supplier of precision instruments and services, presents its new XP105 analytical balance, an addition to the company’s extensive line of XP balances. Offering a safe and accurate solution for quantifying the purity of sugar in a…
Jonathan Gilbert
As if it wasn’t difficult enough tightening up the recession ropes, many organizations will soon find themselves reeling as the tide changes, and hiring and production once again swing into full gear. So the challenge becomes how to do more with less now, while preparing for the economic…
Jon Miller
For a group of people who claim to practice management by fact, questioning the as-given condition, we in the lean community have a troubling habit of citing and accepting made-up lean enterprise statistics. In fact, I would say that at least 50 percent of statistics cited about lean have been…
Tawna Lawrence
Today’s uncertain business environment is a driver for organizations to respond faster and with more agility to internal and external conditions and many are looking to the proven benefits of process management for help. Within process management, a process assessment framework (PAF) can give you…
Bill Kalmar
As the holiday season approaches, there are several inevitable occurrences that will try our patience. Along with people jostling in lines, especially before dawn as bargain hunters await the opening of a store, the inevitable NASCAR-like jockeying in the parking lots, out-of-stock merchandise,…
John G. Miller
Outstanding means being superior, striking, exceptional, clearly noticeable—essentially, to stand out. People are attracted to outstanding organizations. They want to buy from them, sell to them, invest in them, volunteer at them, and work for them. And as we close out the first decade of the 21st…
EAGLE Registrations Inc
(EAGLE Registrations: Dayton, OH) -- EAGLE Registrations Inc., a third-party certification body that audits businesses to international standards, has published a new book, Management System Standards and Certification… The Basics 101.
The free book covers common globablly-accepted quality,…
Eriez Manufacturing Co.
(Eriez: Erie, PA) -- Customers can virtually attend material X-ray tests in real time with Eriez’s interactive online X-ray testing. Using a password-protected web site, participants can see their products passing through an Eriez E-Z Tec X-Ray Inspection System to determine its performance for…
Delcam
(Delcam plc: Birmingham, UK) -- Delcam.TV now has a special section devoted to the 2010 version of FeatureCam, their software for feature-based machining. This includes videos highlighting all the important new features in the latest release, including demonstrations of the much faster calculation…
Xspect Solutions Inc.
(Xspect Solutions Inc.: Wixcom, MI) -- Xspect Solutions is the world’s largest supplier of rebuilt and remanufactured coordinate measurement machines (CMMs), and has extensive expertise in the area of large CMMs. So when Science and Engineering Services Inc.’s (SESI) Huntsville Manufacturing…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- On Dec. 2, Vice President Joe Biden, and U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gary Locke, presented three U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor for innovation and performance excellence.
The ceremony—the 22nd…
