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If you are buying two or three complex assemblies per month from a contract manufacturer, it would be reasonable to check every one carefully; there’s a lot that could go wrong. However, if you are buying 100,000 simple subassemblies per month it makes no sense for you to 100-percent check them…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first optical frequency comb—a tool for precisely…
The FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) posted a notice of draft guidance that will require all medical device adverse-event reports to be submitted electronically. While the process of electronic submission of data is a more efficient and traceable means for reporting, it…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name.
Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first optical frequency comb—a tool for…
Product certifications have exploded in recent years. Products ranging from pine lumber to children’s toys carry some sort of certification, and the organizations issuing certifications are as diverse as the products themselves. What are the practical values of these certifications? What are the…
Bruce Piasecki’s new book, The Surprising Solution: Creating Possibility in a Swift and Severe World (Sourcebooks, 2009) is about how to make better leaders, better products, and a better world. The Surprising Solution is about how to create possibility in our world of global consolidation and how…
(CRC Press: New York) -- Improving supply chain efficiency, especially in today’s unsettled business climate, requires that managers go beyond doing business as usual. They must apply inspiration and perspiration in a structured, collaborative, and measurable approach that blends project…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- In today’s challenging economy, providing quality service can be a major competitive advantage—but it can be difficult to define and measure. The American Society for Quality (ASQ) invites business professionals to register for a free webinar that spotlights how service quality…
(Edmund Optics: Barrington, NJ) -- Edmund Optics (EO), a provider of optical components, recently announced that it greatly expanded its line of TECHSPEC imaging and machine vision lenses, adding more than 30 EO designed and manufactured lenses including TECHSPEC fixed focal length and…
(GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies: Groby, England) -- The hand-held DPI 620 advanced multifunction calibrator from GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies now incorporates full HART capability, making it the only combined HART communicator and calibrator currently on the market. The…
(ANAB: Milwaukee) -- Randy A. Dougherty, vice president of the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB), has been elected chair of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF), the world association of national accreditation bodies for management systems, products, and personnel.
Dougherty…
(LaserLinc: Fairborn, OH) -- LaserLinc Inc., a manufacturer of noncontact, precision measurement systems, announces the release of a new laser scan micrometer, the TLAser130s.
The TLAser130s is a compact, high-speed, single-axis model for wire, centerless ground parts, multistrand…
I became aware of a truth about lean problem solving and kaizen yesterday while reading an article about 10 internet rules and laws, “Internet rules and laws: the top 10, from Godwin to Poe,” published on the Daily Telegraph’s web site (www.telegraph.co.uk).
4. Skitt’s Law…
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n the past there was only one criterion required to be a good supplier: you had to ship very few nonconforming items. If your proportion of nonconforming items took a turn for the worse then you would be “in trouble,” and you would stay in trouble until your fraction nonconforming dropped…
Recently released labor market, manufacturing, and consumer data indicate an economy steadily emerging from the long recession. One of the most gratifying indications of this change was the Associated Industries of Massachusetts Business Confidence index showing a continued gain of 1.8 points in…
(Camstar Systems Inc.: Charlotte, NC) -- Camstar offers “The Next Generation CAPA System” again by popular demand.
Quality issues that are resolved through processes in a corrective and preventive action (CAPA) system can be the difference between organizations that succeed and those that…
(Zemetrics: Tucson, AZ) -- Zemetrics, maker of innovation-driven surface metrology products, introduces ZeScope, a subnanometer precision 3-D optical profilometer for general and industrial applications. The newly developed metrology system is distinctive in offering high-resolution imaging…
(MasterControl: Salt Lake City) -- MasterControl, a global provider of software solutions that enable regulated companies to improve internal efficiency and reduce overall costs while accelerating time to market, recently announced that the company and i4DM, a MasterControl partner, have been…
(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler Toledo introduces a line of ultramicrobalances and microbalances to the current Excellence Plus and Excellence lines of analytical balances. The XP6U and XP2U ultramicrobalances and the XP6 microbalance with up to 6 g capacity and 0.1 μg or 1 μg…
(DMIS: Arlington, TX) -- A new interoperability standard for dimensional metrology was approved by the ANSI as an American National Standard on Aug. 4. Through the auspices of the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) Inc.’s DMIS Standards Committee, an updated version—revision 5.2—of…
(CyberMetrics: Phoenix) -- The GAGEtrak Calibration Label Kit allows you to create durable laminated calibration labels with your choice of bar-code styles directly out of GAGEtrak. This small-footprint, 360-dpi printer comes with power and USB cables, flexible label design software, and…
(Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute: Atlanta) -- Debbie Guzman, laboratory director at Athens Regional Medical Center, says that implementing lean principles in a health care setting is especially challenging. Traditionally used in manufacturing, lean refers to an operational strategy…
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ix Sigma and lean provide tools for process improvement. Most of today’s business improvement programs can trace their roots back to a lean or a Six Sigma heritage. In general, these process improvement methodologies are considered advances from total quality management (TQM) and other methods…
(Delcam: Windsor, ON) -- Delcam has added two new options for its PowerINSPECT inspection software.
PowerINSPECT PartAligner can be used with portable inspection equipment to simplify setup operations for machine tools. It is similar to the automated position compensation provided by NC-…
(DNV: Houston) -- DNV Certification is offering a free webinar on Nov. 10, “What is ISO 14001 and Should I Care?”
What you will learn:
What is an environmental management system?
What is ISO 14001, its structure, and requirements?
What are the benefits of an environmental management…
