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(NQF: Washington) -- The National Quality Forum (NQF) recently released the Quality Data Set (QDS), a common technological framework for defining clinical data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in patients’ quality of care. The QDS framework provides a standardized set of…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) provides another look into the latest technologies and production methods at WESTEC 2010 Exposition.
WESTEC will be held Tuesday, March 23 through Thursday, March 25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles.
To…
St. Joseph Health System-Humboldt County (SJHS-Humboldt County) is committed to meeting the highest standards in health care delivery. SJHS-Humboldt County consists of two hospitals: St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka and Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna, both in California. With more than 1,200…
The four questions of data analysis are the questions of description, probability, inference, and homogeneity. Any data analyst needs to know how to organize and use these four questions to be able to obtain meaningful and correct results.
The description question
Given a collection of…
(ISO: Geneva) -- A new international standard, ISO 31000:2009—“Risk management—Principles and guidelines,” will help organizations of all types and sizes to manage risk effectively.
ISO 31000 provides principles, framework, and a process for managing any form of risk in a…
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has joined forces with three of the biggest names in standards to develop an unprecedented resource for medical device standards and related information.
Medical professionals can now access more than 1,300 medical device…
“Lean” has come to mean an integrated, end-to-end process viewpoint that combines the concepts of waste elimination, just-in-time inventory management, built-in quality, and worker involvement supported by a cultural focus on problem solving. Can such practical principles be applied to innovation…
(NCQA: Washington) -- U.S. News Media Group and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) have released the fifth-annual edition of “America’s Best Health Insurance Plans” on USNews.com. Published at the start of open-enrollment season, when people across the United States prepare to…
(Solar Metrology: Halbrook, NY) -- Solar Metrology expands its SMX XRF tool portfolio for film composition and thickness measurement of CIGS photovoltaic depositions with the addition of the System SMX-Remote static head ILH.
Solar Metrology’s System SMX-ILH is an atmospheric in-line X-ray…
(Struers Inc.: Westlake, OH) -- Struers Inc. introduces its new state-of-the-art micro/macro hardness testing product line, the DuraScan. With its extensive features and benefits, the DuraScan is a natural complement to Struers existing hardness testers.
The DuraScan, designed in five basic…
The field of surface metrology is one of the fastest growing areas of engineering and quality management. Because what happens at the interaction between two surfaces can affect the functionality and life span of a product, understanding the places where contact and interactions occur is vital for…
You know how sometimes you think everyone knows a secret that they haven’t let you in on? Well, I had the opposite happen to me the other day. I assumed everyone knew the purpose for measurement system analysis (MSA), a.k.a. gauge repeatability and reproducibility; but I found out that a number of…
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- After a surge through the second quarter, aggregate customer satisfaction as measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) stalls. The ACSI loses 0.1 percent for the third quarter, which brings the Index to a score of 76.0 on a 100-point scale. Still, the…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology announces the release of PC-DMIS 2009 Minor Release 1 (MR1), an incremental update to PC-DMIS 2009, which was newly released in July 2009.
“The model of doing frequent minor releases represents the continuation of our new agile…
Kaj Ahlmann (right), owner of the Six Sigma Ranch, Vineyards, and Winery, and vineyard manager, David Weiss, create great wines by applying old-world techniques and the rigor of proven quality improvement.
Some people take it easy when they retire. But Kaj…
(Capture 3D: Costa Mesa, CA) -- Capture 3D, together with Trilion Quality Systems, is excited to announce the “Go Lean and Be Smart with 3D Metrology Techniques Workshop” U.S. tour.
Presentations from various industries focus on how optical 3-D technology is being used to improve quality…
(BMGI: Denver) -- BMGI in conjunction with BMG University announce “Lean for Healthcare,” a 4.5-day workshop providing a comprehensive introduction to lean in health care environments. The workshop is offered during February and June 2010 in Denver.
Classroom training combines lectures and…
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal Inc. has introduced a new version of its popular MMQ 200 Formtester Cylindricity Machine with an automated T7W probing system. The T7W is a ±360° motorized bidirectional probe intended to reduce operator involvement and improve measurement capability…
(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- A custom gun grip manufacturer has substantially improved the quality of its products by using the MobileScan HD portable 3-D laser scanning system from NVision to reverse engineer the original grips. In the past, the manufacturer used a coordinate measuring machine (CMM…
I have just finished rereading Walter A. Shewhart's 1939 book Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control (Dover Publications, 1986). Mine is the 1986 edition, which has a foreword by W. Edwards Deming. Shewhart, a Bell Labs man, pioneered quality control and was a major inspiration…
(Mastercam: Tolland, CT) -- Mastercam X4 Lathe has been released with a new suite of CAD/CAM tools focused on delivering speed and efficiency for your machining jobs. From roughing and finishing to easy grooving and threading, Mastercam Lathe has been designed to reduce programmer interaction and…
As a part of my project close-out celebration of the “get the kids into college” project, I decided to celebrate by going back to school myself. So, here I am in Parma, Italy, at the Academia Barilla cooking school through Sur La Table—two organizations that really understand the community around…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- If you’re watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution imaging. But new research1 makes it possible to scrutinize…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Each year the Baldrige Program recruits experts from business, education organizations, health care providers, nonprofit organizations, and other groups to serve on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Examiners evaluate applications…
(Camstar Systems Inc.: Charlotte, NC) -- Camstar will show a product demonstration of its nonconformance management solution in a live one-hour web cast on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. EST.
The session will illustrate specific examples of how the solution can help manufacturers:
• Streamline…
