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(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced the immediate availability of new versions of the TESASTAR-m and TESASTAR-sm motorized probe heads for Brown & Sharpe and Sheffield branded coordinate measuring machines shipped from the North Kingstown, Rhode…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Baldrige National Quality Program (BNQP) has announced that four state quality programs will receive funding for the development of Baldrige-based and performance excellence curricula targeted at education or…
(AIT: Melbourne, FL) -- Advanced Inspection Technologies has recently partnered with Look Technologies to offer borescope inspection services throughout North America. The addition of borescope inspection service with the new partnership greatly expands AIT’s business and gives customers even more…
(AIT: Melbourne, FL) -- Advanced Inspection Technologies Inc. (AIT) introduces a new line of flexible micro borescopes that are incredibly thin. The new micro borescopes can inspect the interior of castings, machined parts, turbine components, and other parts that were previously impossible to…
Toyota is in the news daily for its safety-related recalls. It’s sad… no, tragic. How could a company’s quality reputation be diluted so quickly? The pundits are saying that it will take many years to regain its lost quality reputation.
For Toyota, its reputation was its most important asset—…
The powder metallurgy (PM) process offers manufacturers the ability to produce high volumes of complex parts in a cost effective manner. Many powder metallurgy components go through heat-treat processes producing parts with increased strength or wear resistance. To ensure the quality of the heat…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Don’t worry if you can’t make it to Washington, D.C., for the Quest for Excellence XXII conference on April 12–14. You can participate from your home or office, learning all about the exceptional performance management practices and results of the 2009 recipients of the…
Clothing items from world-renowned fashion brands such as Versace, Hermés, Dolce&Gabbana, Hugo Boss, and Trussardi were recently found substandard during a quality check performed by the government of China’s Zhejiang province, a wealthy part of the country on the eastern coast, near Shanghai…
(Lean Logistics Summit: IN) -- Now is the time to position you and your organization with a competitive advantage. Companies that respond most quickly to the coming demand will be the winners. A truly lean supply chain is the surest way to beat your competitors to the market.
This summer,…
(Rapidform: Seoul) -- INUS Technology Inc. has announced that the next major release of its flagship reverse engineering software, Rapidform XOR, will be available in April. Rapidform XOR is the only software that combines 3-D scan data processing and real parametric solid modeling to give users…
(LaserLinc Inc.: Fairborn, OH) — LaserLinc has introduced two sophisticated new software options: fast fourier transform (FFT) and structural return loss (SRL).
Fast fourier transform allows users to analyze periodic deviations in a measurement, such as the diameter of a wire or cable. By…
(NQF: Washington) -- The National Quality Forum (NQF) is advancing its efforts to support an effective infrastructure for quality improvement through the use of electronic platforms.
NQF participated in this year’s Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 10…
(Delcam: Birmingham, UK) -- Delcam will launch the 2010 R2 version of its PowerINSPECT inspection software on stand No. 3514 at CONTROL 2010, at the new Stuttgart Exhibition Center in Germany, May 4–7. The new release will incorporate automatic surface inspection and the ability to use geometric…
I received pair of questions about lean logistics over the past few weeks that prompted this article. The questions were “What is the milk run method?” and “What is the role of the water spider?”
The milk run
The milk run is an example of time-fixed, quantity-variable replenishment of…
Managing for quality is breaking new ground. Increasingly, organizations are being encouraged to look at the entire landscape unfolding before them from the perspective of a balanced array of outcomes characterized by what authors Andrew Savitz and Karl Weber call The Triple Bottom Line (Jossey-…
(BQPM: Newark, CA) – Business & Quality Process Management (BQPM) is now offering three levels of training for those interested in the new hazardous substance free (HSF) standard: a one-day “Awareness” course, a two-day “Implementation” course, and a three-day “Assessor” course.
The…
(Cole-Parmer: Vernon Hills, IL) -- Imagine plugging a microscope into the USB port of your PC or laptop and viewing images with 10X to 200X or even 500X magnification. The latest models of hand-held microscopes from Cole-Parmer offer just this portability, convenience, and versatility. The most…
(NAG: Oxford, UK) -- The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), a provider of high quality high quality mathematical and statistical software and computing services has announced that it will mark its 40th anniversary by extending the awards that it funds to more institutions across the globe. In the…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Myriad studies have acknowledged that ISO 9001-registered companies outperform companies that are not ISO 9001-registered; however, a main finding in many studies has shown that registered companies are performing at the same level regardless of their ISO 9001…
(TWI Institute: Liverpool, NY) -- Training within industry is needed more now, in this down economy, than ever before. It was in a time of crisis that the Training Within Industry (TWI) Service proved its worth more than 60 years ago. Today, leading organizations are turning to training within…
(FDA: Washington) -- As part of the final phase of its transparency initiative, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking comment from the public and other interested stakeholders on how the agency can increase transparency in its interactions with regulated industry.
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(Yorkshire Publishing: Tulsa, OK) -- This winter, our view of Japanese automakers as the pinnacle of quality was shattered by the Toyota recall fiasco. For the last 50 years, the Japanese have continuously garnered more and more market share by using a continuous improvement manufacturing…
Early one morning I was in my side yard and walked up on a huge elaborate spider web complete with its designer-tenant. As I approached the artwork, the spider began to vibrate the web sending glistening dewdrops everywhere. The next morning the web was gone without a trace. However, spread…
In July of 2008, I stepped out of an engineering leadership role and into an operational role. The transition was exciting and overwhelming. While I had been in and around manufacturing for a little more than a decade, I had never operated as a part of supply chain or production management. The…
When a luxury yacht is ordered by someone high on the world’s who’s-who list, shipbuilders pay special attention. Outfitting the craft with the latest appointments to attend to expensive epicurean tastes is certainly an important issue, but before the crystal can be heard tinkling in varnished…
