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(APQO: Chicago) -- Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO) has announced the World Class Winners of the Global Performance Excellence Awards.
“We are pleased to announce that six organizations from six Asian and Pacific Rim countries are being recognized as exemplary companies of world class…
(Pinpoint: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing a precision adjustable shim called the Microshim. This innovation is ideal for production plants, machine shops, utilities, and other industrial facilities where machinery must be precisely adjusted or leveled. Typical…
Why do some businesses thrive, while others flounder, unable to reach the next level? Through extensive research analyzing more than 100 businesses, management consultants Doug and Polly White discovered that the difference lies in how well the principal (i.e., the leader, owner, or…
(Leica: Norcross, VA) -- Building on the success of its industry-leading Leica ScanStation C10 and C5 laser scanners, Leica Geosystems has announced advanced, onboard, and handheld scanner control firmware (v. 2.6) that provides increased high-definition surveying productivity and versatility…
(Consona: Indianapolis) -- Consona Corp., provider of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and services for companies of all sizes, and uniPoint Software Inc., developer and provider of software and services for quality management, continuous…
China is blessed with an abundance of hard-working, conscientious, and low-paid laborers who are driven to improve their living conditions. The result of their efforts has been a rapid and steady increase in production capabilities and demand for China-built products. Contrary to the approach…
During a recent strategic planning session with a county’s leadership council, the participants were asked about their vision for their departments as they worked on a template for the strategic plan. Although there were many responses, one that stood out clearly came from the chief of one of…
(Renishaw: Wotton-Under-Edge, UK) -- On Oct. 12, 2011, Renishaw and Okuma will present a metrology seminar to address the need for increased process control, and provide details on the Productivity Pyramid, Renishaw’s systematic approach to reducing waste and variation in manufacturing…
(GBMP: Boston, MA) -- The GBMP Lean Manufacturing Certificate Program—East is an eight-day learning event beginning Tues., Oct. 11, 2011, in Shirley, Massachusetts. It provides manufacturing and service professionals with fundamental tools and indispensable knowledge to implement continuous…
(3DX-Ray: Leicestershire, UK) -- 3DX-Ray Ltd., developer, manufacturer, and installer of X-ray inspection systems, has launched CatSpect, a new software module, within the 3DX-Ray standardized software suite, that will make the analysis of items even easier. A new icon-based interface enables…
(CRAIC: San Dimas, CA) -- CRAIC Technologies, a leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions, has introduced Lightswitch by CRAIC, an optical multiplexer for the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) regions. This unit is designed to attach to an open photoport to…
(Accelper Consulting: Wheaton, IL) -- The Business Innovation Conference, which runs Oct. 10–12, 2011, at ITT Rice Campus in Wheaton, Illinois, is dedicated to the vigorous exchange of ideas on business innovation and innovative thinking. The conference, which is organized by Accelper…
Perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest paintings has never been reprinted in books of his art. Known as the Battle of Anghiari, it was abandoned and then lost—until a determined Italian engineer gave the art world hope that it still existed, and a physicist from the U.S. Department of…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. and Hendrick Motorsports have announced a multi-year partnership agreement that makes Hexagon Metrology the Official Provider of Dimensional Metrology Products and Services to Hendrick Motorsports.
Hendrick Motorsports, winner…
Those who are cynical toward an ISO 9001-based quality system often ask sarcastic questions similar to, but often more vulgar than, the one in the title of this article. These rude anti-ISOs just don’t understand us quality folks.
The issue of how much should a company document keeps rearing…
(MSI: Seattle) -- The new Dyna-Link 2, employing MSI’s ScaleCore technology, provides 24-bit A/D conversion and precision, 0.1-percent accuracy with standard
2,500 or optional 5,000 division resolution. More efficient processing
power allows extended continuous operating time to more than…
(Delcam: Birmingham, United Kingdom) -- Delcam has launched a new website for its PowerINSPECT CAD-based inspection software—www.powerinspect.com. The site details the many benefits that have made PowerINSPECT the world’s leading hardware-independent inspection software.
One of the most…
(Lion Technology: Las Vegas) -- Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added Peter Kuhn, former president and CEO of the French Gulf Mining and Bullion River Gold corporations, to their list of most wanted fugitives. Charged with illegal disposal of hazardous waste and…
(Kaplan EduNeering: Princeton, NJ) -- Kaplan EduNeering, a leading provider of online compliance and training management solutions, and Kaplan & Walker LLP, a U.S. law firm practicing exclusively in the area of corporate compliance and ethics (C&E) programs, are collaborating on a series…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- While most of us would say that hindsight is 20/20, the folks at the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program believe just the opposite for organizations that want to survive and thrive now and for years to come. To share the keys to 20/20 foresight—the ability to…
Counting the seconds until Metric Week (Oct. 9–15, 2011) begins? That’s the spirit! Seconds are the metric unit of time. You also could figure your distance in meters (the metric unit of length) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) labs in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where…
Outsourcing service providers are taking steps to diversify service offerings to stay competitive, according to new research from The Center for International Business Education and Research’s (CIBER) Offshoring Research Network (ORN) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and PwC US.…
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) international program has logged nearly 75,000 hits to its web pages on the new food safety law, as foreign companies that export food to the United States scramble to learn how the law affects them.
“A lot of our foreign offices are being deluged with…
All charts for count-based data are charts for individual values. Regardless of whether we are working with a count or a rate, we obtain one value per time period and want to plot a point every time we get a value. This is why four specialty charts for count-based data had been developed before…
Manufacturing and metrology leaders have announced a new certification body establishing performance standards for service providers and equipment manufacturers in the rapidly expanding digital metrology industry.
The American Association of Advanced Metrology (AAAM) “encourages and…
