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My definition of “specification” is rather simple: It’s a promise.
Just like any other promise, you’d better be sincere when you make it and be able to keep it. Failure to keep a promise brings disappointment. Frequent failure leads to distrust. And consciously breaking a promise is nothing less…
I know we have been talking about statistics a lot in my last few articles, but recent reader comments have prompted me to think more about why doing statistics properly matters. Come with me, dear reader, on a journey to find out why you should embrace, and not run screaming from, your inner…
In my previous article, “Prying Management Away from Old Assumptions,” we talked about the relationship between thinking, system, and performance. W. Edwards Deming told us that to improve performance, the system has to change and that the system represents 95 percent of any organization’s…
(Connexall: Boulder, CO) -- Connexall, a leader in enterprise middleware for health care alarm management, lean-enabling workflow automation, and comprehensive reporting, is helping to improve patient satisfaction at one of the nation’s foremost cancer treatment facilities. The technology enables…
(DALSA: Waterloo, ON, Canada) -- DALSA Corp., a global leader in machine vision technology, has launched a new series within its Genie line of affordable, easy-to-use, GigE Vision-compliant cameras. The Genie HC Series is built for high-speed color acquisition with uncompromised image quality. …
(Dorsey Metrology: Poughkeepsie, NY) -- Dorsey Metrology has introduced a new line of products in response to demand for large measuring diameters. Its new Ultra Large Diameter Gages have been designed to meet the largest, accurate measuring needs outside the capabilities of the traditional Dorsey…
Gold'n Plump Poultry provides chicken products to stores, delicatessens, and restaurants in 40 states. Commitment to process excellence has helped the company thrive even in tough times, and Minitab Statistical Software has provided the powerful tools they needed to analyze quality data. But the…
(Geomagic: Research Triangle Park, NC) -- Geomagic has announced that its 3-D reverse engineering and inspection software products have been updated to enable new features and support additional languages.
With the release of Version 12, Service Release 1, Geomagic Studio, Geomagic Qualify,…
(Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.: Columbia, MD) -- The Autograph AGS-X Series table-top universal testers, now available from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, deliver efficient, precise tensile and compression tests for the rubber, plastic, and film industries. With the AGS-X, users can…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ), the world’s largest community of quality resources and experts, now offers ISO 26000: Guidance on Social Responsibility, the new international standard on social responsibility (SR). The standard provides global guidance for both private…
A recent article appearing in the Quality Digest Daily e-newsletter (“Why Lean? Why Now?” by Dean Bliss http://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/health-care-news/why-lean-why-now.html) discusses the value of lean in a health care setting. In his editorial, Bliss writes about the manufacturing origins…
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- In the global marketplace, people can work practically anywhere and anytime. Managing the Mobile Workforce: Leading, Building, and Sustaining Virtual Teams, by David Clemons and Michael Kroth (McGraw-Hill, 2010), shares stories about organizations that have taken the…
If you think your time spent outside the workplace is devoid of circumstances that can affect your job, you’re mistaken. There are many factors outside of work that can be detrimental to your employment. The following tips will help you avoid leaving a trail of breadcrumbs that will lead right…
(DIS: Novi, MI) -- Dynamic Intelligent Solutions LLC (DIS) has launched its patent-pending process, called “ChamberCam,” that more efficiently measures dimensional-stability components under extreme climatic conditions, reducing development time and cost while increasing the breadth of data…
(Jossey-Bass: Hoboken, NJ) -- The Leader to Leader Institute’s (formerly The Drucker Foundation) best-selling The Five Most Important Questions Self-Assessment Tool (Jossey-Bass, 2010) has helped facilitators, leaders, and consultants guide thousands in unleashing their organizations' full…
(ISPE, Tampa, FL) -- ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, will offer seven training courses, including a session focused on complying with 21 CFR Part 11, at its 2010 ISPE Philadelphia Classroom Training. The event will take…
(Nikon Corp.: Tokyo) -- Nikon Corp. has introduced the HN-6060, a new concept in noncontact, multisensor 3-D metrology. The HN-6060 captures high-density 3-D point clouds from part surfaces with high speed and precision. The newly designed laser scanning sensor extracts the surface form and…
(Newport Corp.: Stratford, CT) -- Oriel, a Newport Corp. brand, has announced a new uniformity measurement tool for measuring the uniformity of irradiance at the sample plane of solar simulators. The photovoltaics (PV) tool is equipped with a single metal test platen, compatible with English and…
(McGraw-Hill Professional: New York) -- We live in a world of vast collaborative potential. Yet all too often, powerful boundaries create barriers that can splinter groups, which can lead to uninspiring results. To transform borders into frontiers in global, multistakeholder organizations, you…
Donald L. Dewar, founder and president of QCI International and Quality Digest magazine, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award on Oct. 27 at the Visual Workplace International Summit 2010 Conference in Salt Lake City.
Dewar is recognized for bringing quality circles and many other…
(Direct Dimensions Inc.: Owings Mills, MD) -- Every year a select group of students in the mechanical engineering program in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, compete in the Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) competition. The…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Taking the first steps of what would be a major historical advance in the science of measurement, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is participating in a worldwide effort to recommend major revisions to the International System of Units (SI), the…
(AkzoNobel Car Refinishes Americas: Norcross, GA) -- AkzoNobel Car Refinishes Americas and Toyota Motor Sales USA have agreed to combine experience and resources surrounding process improvement methods for collision repair operations, resulting in the Toyota Production System for Collision (TPS-C…
(Albion Devices Inc.: Solana Beach, CA) -- Albion Devices Inc., an engineering firm specializing in precision measurement instrumentation, recently introduced its new, inexpensive Fireball USB interfaced digital linear-measurement probe.
Fireball digital probes are the lowest cost, easiest-to-…
(NAG: Oxford, UK) -- Quality control engineers who develop applications in the Microsoft .NET environment and program in C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++, or F# can now incorporate the methods from one of the most extensively tested and comprehensively documented numerical libraries in the world, the…
