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(USPS: Washington) -- When it comes to customer service, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) doesn’t rest on its laurels, so it recently launched a new measurement system designed to better understand customers’ total experience doing business with USPS at every level of the organization.
The…
(Rapid News Communications Group: Chicago) -- Micro Manufacturing (MM) Live USA is a global showcase for everything to do with the mass manufacture of small to micro precision parts for all sectors of manufacturing, whether a company can make them to order or supply the machinery to mill, cut, or…
(Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta) -- By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that draw power from the conversion of…
Making mochi naturally in Ecotopia.
Noticing waste serves no purpose. Understanding it does. Whether we seek to manage waste or attempt to eliminate it entirely, we need to know how much of it exists and what form it takes—what is its volume, its shape,…
(Olympus: Central Valley, PA) -- Olympus, a precision technology designer and provider of innovative solutions in medical and surgical products, life science imaging systems, industrial testing instruments, and cameras and audio products, recently announced the 2010 winners in the Olympus…
(PerkinElmer Inc.: Waltham, MA) -- PerkinElmer Inc., a global provider focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, recently announced that the company’s inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) technology can help ensure that traditional Chinese herbal medicines…
(George Products Co.: Middletown, DE) -- Industry leaders frustrated with high cost of inspection push for speed in the quality department without sacrificing accuracy or adding complexity. These days, equipment is only as good as the software that runs it. “Customers don’t want a collection of…
(Fluke Corp. Everett, WA) -- Fluke Corp., a global provider of portable electronic test and measurement technology, recently announced the new Fluke 233/A Wireless Remote Display Automotive Digital Multimeter Kit, the industry’s first digital multimeter with a detachable wireless display, designed…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ) is now offering quality professionals lean certification, as part of the Society’s 17 certification programs. ASQ is the newest sponsor of the lean certification program along with the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the…
There’s an important tool for quality professionals that you may have overlooked in your effort to retain customers in this difficult economy. And unlike Six Sigma, ISO 9001 or 9004, lean, and total quality management (TQM), this tool won’t cost you anything.
“Imagine you are a customer. You’…
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Project management as a discipline grew out of the need during WWII for a system to manage the schedule, cost, and specifications of large projects. In recent decades the use of project management techniques in general business methods (planning, scheduling, and controlling…
Consider the most fundamental of measurements: the measurement of physical distances, as when we use feet and yards, or meters. Once upon a time, a foot must have been thought of as the size of, well, a human foot, without worrying whose foot exactly. These days, we are no longer satisfied with…
If you’re like me, the point at which “work” most closely approximates “play” is when you get to fire up the right side of your brain and do some out-of-the-box thinking about new projects. What’s exciting, I find, is the opportunity to build something from scratch that has the potential to carry…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Quest for Excellence XXII is bringing a passion for excellence, innovative practices, engaging conversations, and showcasing world-class results, dynamic leaders, and sustainability to all attendees on April 12–14 at the Hilton Washington in Washington D.C…
I recently spoke to an executive from a Canadian manufacturing company that supplies Toyota and has several years of experience implementing the Toyota Production System (TPS). He said his biggest disappointment was that their corporate culture still doesn’t support surfacing problems. People are…
(Keithley Instruments: Cleveland) -- From the most basic applications to the very complex, there is one common element—the best possible measurements need to be made. Keithley’s Guide to Understanding Electrical Test & Measurement has been compiled to help you analyze your applications and the…
(Cognex Corp.:Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. recently announced In-Sight Track & Trace, an add-on software package for Cognex In-Sight vision systems. In-Sight Track & Trace delivers a ready-to-deploy data capture and verification solution designed to help pharmaceutical and medical device…
(Toyota: ERLANGER, KY) -– Toyota recently announced that it has formed a new North American Quality Task Force led by senior automobile manufacturing executive Steve St. Angelo, who is executive vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America (TEMA). He will guide the…
(John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ) -- Industrial Statistics: Practical Methods and Guidance for Improved Performance, by Anand M. Joglekar, guides readers through 10 practical statistical methods that have broad applications in many different industries for enhancing research, product design…
Wheelchair accessible van modified using 3-D scanning services
(The QC Group: Burnsville, MN) -- Rollx, the only manufacturer and direct seller of new and used mini and full-size wheelchair-equipped vans has a mission—deliver freedom to the wheelchair community. In…
(CoignAMT: New Brighton, PA) -- Coign Asset Metrics & Technologies (CoignAMT), at the direction of Zoo Film Productions of Hollywood, California, has helped produce IBM’s first globally released TV commercial created entirely from light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data. LIDAR is an imaging…
(ALG: Santa Barbara, CA) -- ALG Inc., a subsidiary of DealerTrack Holdings Inc. and the industry benchmark for residual values and depreciation data, recently announced that Toyota suffered a sharp drop from first to sixth place among mainstream brands in ALG’s Spring 2010 Automotive Consumer…
Despite double-digit unemployment, advanced manufacturing firms are still searching for highly skilled people to fill open positions. Critical skills are scarce and about to become much scarcer as the skills gap grows and the “Baby Boomers” retire.
Manufacturing is one of four industries…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- On Tuesday, April 13, Xerox Canada and MoreSteam.com will co-host a one-day lean Six Sigma program for education and networking.
This free event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (includes breakfast and lunch) at the Xerox Toronto Learning Centre in Markham…
(Luxo: Elmsford, NY) -- Luxo’s new LED-3000 Ring Light combines energy efficient LEDs, exceptional lumen maintenance, built-in dimming controls, and a removable/replaceable diffuser cover, all at an incomparable value.
LED-3000, for use with an extensive range of microscope systems, is well-…
