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Raissa Carey
Quality of hospital care in the United States is improving nearly 3 percent annually, remaining the highest rate of quality improvement among the major health care delivery settings, according to the National Healthcare Quality Report 2008 (NHQR), which was released in May by the Agency for…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- The first meeting of the ISO project committee that will develop an international standard providing a code of good practice for establishing, implementing, and managing efficient, flexible, and responsive consumer product recall programs including corrective actions, took…
Metris
(Metris: Leuven, Belgium) -- At Westec 2009 in Los Angeles (US), Metris launched the new 7-axis MCA v2.5 range of articulated arms with a spherical measurement envelope of between 8 and 12 feet (2.4 and 3.6 m) diameter. Battery operation and wireless data communication enable users to quickly set…
(Mahr Federal: Providence, Rhode Island) -- Mahr Federal's Series 300P indicating snap gauges are an excellent choice for highly accurate and reliable measurement results on cylindrical parts with narrow tolerance ranges. The gauges are available in a variety of sizes with measuring capacity…
FDA
(FDA: Silver Spring, Maryland) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently enhanced its food and feed protection initiatives with the award of three one-year Food Safety and Security Monitoring grants totaling $1 million to the states of Arkansas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. The funds…
(AIT: Melbourne, Florida) -- The groom-to-be was showing the wedding ring off to his friends at work the day before the wedding when it slipped from his grasp and fell down an industrial drain. The drain had about a 10-foot vertical drop before it turned sharply horizontal. The groom-to-be had no…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it will award up to $35 million in grants and cooperative agreements for measurement science and engineering research. Approximately 20 to 60 awards, lasting from one to three years,…
Chet Kagel
Command Medical Products of Ormond Beach, Florida, is a medical-device manufacturer that designs, manufactures, assembles, and packages disposable medical devices such as intravenous tubing, blood bags, IV bags, and catheters. Command Medical initiated its journey into lean manufacturing to…
NIST
Baldrige award medallion.
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Seventy organizations have taken the first step toward the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest recognition for innovation and performance excellence.…
(DALSA: Ontario, Canada) --DALSA's new Falcon 4M60 and 4M30 color cameras deliver 4 megapixel data rates and 62 or 31 frames per second (fps) with global shuttering for crisp, clear, color imaging. Falcon color cameras incorporate easy-to-use features such as exposure control, color gain…
(Xspect Solutions Inc.: Wixom, Michigan) -- Wenzel Gear Tec displayed its new compact INOVA gear measuring machine (GMM) for the first time at the Control Exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany, in May 2009.
INOVA is a new gear measuring machine design where the Z-axis with integral rotary table are…
Brittany Vogel
(Quality Digest: June 2, 2009) -- Chicago may or may not host the 2016 Summer Olympics, but the Windy City will serve as the location for the 2009 Artel Pipette Olympics. Not a sport for the overly caffeinated, the Pipette Olympics will be held at Artel's booth at the The Clinical Lab Exposition…
(TÜV SÜD: Peabody, MA) -- In line with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), TÜV SÜD laboratories in Bangalore, India; Hong Kong; Singapore; and Munich, Germany, have received accreditation by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to carry out lead paint testing on…
(NAVSEA: Washington) -- The U.S. Navy ’ s largest systems command, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), is recruiting displaced mid-career automotive engineering professionals.
At a time when many companies are downsizing, NAVSEA continues to need mid-career employees―particularly engineers,…
Bill Kalmar
None of us, I suspect, are fond of visiting our physician, making an unexpected trip to the hospital emergency room, or undergoing an operation. From time to time, we hear about the unanticipated results of a botched operation where the wrong leg was removed or an incorrect diagnosis resulted in…
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, Virginia) -- ProFicient 4 includes new enhancements and features to further help you improve quality and drive down costs. ProFicient 4 focuses on compliance reporting (useful for companies in regulated industries or companies who need to meet customer specifications), an…
(Quality Solutions: Cleveland, Ohio) -- Not a day goes by that we don’t hear about thousands of layoffs, plant closings, shrinking sales, and evaporated profit margins. It is easy to let fear overtake us to the point that it cripples management so much that their performance becomes a self-…
Laurel Thoennes @ Quality Digest
(Quality Digest: May 29, 2009) -- The first Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University Medal was awarded to H. James Harrington, Ph.D., on April 8 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), for his efforts to support quality education throughout the UAE, and for his leadership as chairman of the advisory board…
(IBS: Lexington, Massachusetts) -- IBS, the global leader in enterprise quality and compliance solutions, today announced the latest release of CompliantPro, its web-based quality management software. CompliantPro 7.2 features increased platform support in product infrastructure as well as…
(AMETEK: Largo, Florida) -- The JOFRA DTI-050 digital temperature indicator from AMETEK Calibration Instruments offers a measurement accuracy to +0.012˚C (+0.021˚F). Combined with a JOFRA STS-100 or STS-050 temperature reference sensor, the DTI-050 temperature indicator is the perfect reference…
AIAG
(AIAG: Southfield, Michigan) -- The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) has been granted the rights to distribute the IATF Auditor Guide for ISO/TS 16949 to companies worldwide. This document provides clear and concise details concerning how to demonstrate compliance to customer requirements…
Donald J. Wheeler
Last month we showed the X chart in figure 1. The four lowest values and the three highest values were seen to be “outliers” when we looked at the histogram. When we fitted a bell-shaped curve to the histogram, the outliers corrupted the model and resulted in a poor fit. Yet we used all the data…
Dan Seal
Many of us in the aerospace community have come to know the value of data in the Online Aerospace Supplier Information System (OASIS), a reliable resource for aerospace supplier certification and registration data housed and maintained by SAE International. The OASIS database is available to…
Laurel Thoennes @ Quality Digest
Throughout all levels of the California Awards for Performance Excellence (CAPE), a single organization shines at the gold level—Feather River Hospital—the only recipient of the gold-level Eureka Award for 2008. They are only the second hospital to achieve the gold level since the California…
Brittany Vogel
(Quality Digest: May 22, 2009) -- Chinese-imported drywall in homes nationwide is causing illness and the deterioration of home appliances. Residents have reported headaches and bloody noses along with corroded appliances, resulting in the unusually early replacement of parts.
The Consumer…
