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(GBMP: Newton MA) -- GBMP, a licensed affiliate of The Shingo Institute, is accepting registrations for eight Shingo Institute workshops. With two dates to attend each of the four workshops, GBMP is proud to be able to help hundreds of lean practitioners gain access to all of the important…
(AssurX: Morgan Hill, CA) -- AssurX, Inc., a leading enterprise quality management, risk, and regulatory compliance solution provider, has released the latest update to its AssurX audit management software.
Key benefits to the organization The AssurX software update keeps all stages of the audit…
(ASQ: Milwaukee, WI) -- Within the next five years, customer experience will overtake product features and safety as the primary driver of customer loyalty, according to Curt Hill, vice president of customer and partner assurance for Cisco Systems Inc., who is speaking at the ASQ International…
(Frost & Sullivan: London) -- The current system of calculating motor insurance premiums places importance on driver-related factors such as age, gender, and driving record. However, the introduction of autonomous vehicles will turn the spotlight on vehicle-related parameters. As the vehicle…
(Zygo: Middlefield, CT) -- Zygo Corp. has introduce the Nomad portable optical profiler. The Nomad system employs advanced optical technology and advanced 3D noncontact metrology in a lightweight, compact, and portable package, enabling metrology on samples that were previously impossible or…
(Eckel: Cambridge, MA) -- Microsoft now holds the Guinness World Record for Quietest Place on Earth, and Eckel Noise Control Technologies helped the tech giant get there.
Microsoft is known as a leader in computer and electronics research and development, and continually invests in upholding that…
(IBM: Armonk, NY) -- IBM has launched the industry’s first consulting organization dedicated to helping clients realize the transformative value of cognitive business.
IBM Cognitive Business Solutions extends the exclusive cognitive leadership of IBM Watson and the company’s established market…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- Author and manufacturing improvement expert Gary Conner has been recognized with the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award for his book, Lean Epiphanies: Catapult the Cow and Other Inspirational Continuous Improvement Stories (Society of Manufacturing Engineers…
(Mencom Corp: Oakwood, GA) -- Automation is a key part of almost all manufacturing today. Why? The many benefits include reduced costs, increased productivity, improved quality, and greater efficiency.
Reduced costs. What once took one or more people to do can now be accomplished with one robot,…
(Frost & Sullivan: San Antonio, TX) -- Various industries, including food and beverage, environmental, biopharmaceuticals, clinical research and diagnostics have been driving the global laboratory analytical instrumentation market. The food industry has been a particularly prominent end user…
(Pilgrim: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Quality Solutions, a global provider of enterprise quality management software and services for life sciences, has introduced SmartSolve Mobile Audit, a mobile application created specifically to improve auditor productivity, particularly when conducting audits at…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Once known only as the creator of the nation’s highest award for organizational performance excellence, the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program now offers executive leadership development training that is revolutionizing how leaders themselves use the Baldrige…
(Frost & Sullivan: Mountain View, CA) -- The complex relationship between technology proliferation and rapidly evolving social norms is going to redefine U.S. society and business over the next 10 years. Against a backdrop of the 2016 political election, the United States finds itself engaging…
(DE-STA-CO: Auburn Hills, MI) -- With the new 52H-3E series, DE-STA-CO is offering a very individualized, adjustable manual power clamp primarily for prototype fixtures. The manual power clamps are available in two sizes—50 and 63. They have a completely closed aluminum housing that protects the…
(inTEST Thermal Solutions: Mansfield, MA) -- The integration of rapid temperature cycling with the Keysight B1506A Power Device Analyzer has been introduced by inTEST Thermal Solutions and Keysight. The Temptronic ThermoStream temperature forcing system automates temperature cycling of power…
(Juran Global: Southington, CT) -- Juran Global, a leading business excellence and quality management consulting firm, has launched a simple and powerful mobile app, Quality Essentials, for professionals tasked with improving business performance and achieving operational excellence. The app…
(Renishaw: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Renishaw will be demonstrating its new line of modular metrology fixtures for use on coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), Equator gauging systems, and multisensor inspection systems, at the upcoming Quality Show. Applying its 40 years of industrial metrology…
(Exact Metrology: Brookfield, WI) -- On Sept. 16, 2015, for approximately three hours, Exact Metrology technicians performed a 3D scan of the huge South Lion that guards the entrance to the world-famous Chicago Art Institute. The subsequent STL file is being used by Chicago-based Met-L-Flo to…
(5ME: Cincinnati, OH) -- 5ME’s new dashboards feature allows users to create a one-screen view of machine tool performance data pertinent to their job functions. The program builds on the data-capturing capability of the company’s Freedom eLOG software suite and combines multiple graphics, called…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- For the first time in its history, the Baldrige Foundation has been accepted in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). The CFC is the official workplace-giving campaign of the federal government. The mission of the CFC is to promote and support philanthropy through a…
(CMS: Weatherford, TX) -- The Executive Board of the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the eminent membership association for measurement professionals, has changed the name of its Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC). The new name of the event is the Coordinate Metrology Society…
(U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Washington, D.C.) -- During the recent White House Apprenticeship Summit, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced the first-ever effort to document the return on investment for U.S. employers using registered apprenticeships. The Joyce Foundation, JPMorgan…
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- openFDA is releasing information on medical devices that could spur innovation and advance scientific research.
openFDA’s application program interface expands on the previous openFDA resources concerning medical device-related adverse events and recalls by…
(Theorem Solutions: Staffordshire, England) -- In every product life-cycle process there comes a time when design data and product information need to be shared, whether it’s with another department or external suppliers.
It used to be that engineers who designed products in CAD systems struggled…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ) Service Quality Division has recently initiated a project to enhance the current version of the Service Quality Body of Knowledge (SQBOK). The division needs 10 to 12 volunteers from the ASQ community to contribute to this project. Upon…
