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(DNV Certification: Houston) -- How do I get started with food safety certification? What’s the process? What are the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmarked standards and which is best for my organization?
Do these questions sound familiar? Do you have more?
Attend "Food Safety…
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- Traditionally, major automakers including Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Honda of America Mfg. Inc., and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., conduct their own corporate social responsibility initiatives.
They are…
(Leica Geosystems: Norcross, GA) -- Leica Viva is a new generation measurement system that combines state-of-the-art technologies into a portfolio of total stations, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers, system controllers, and on-board software. Innovative features and functional…
In conjunction with its Quality Expo sponsors, Automated Precision Inc. (API) and Veeco Instruments Inc., Quality Digest gave away a 32-inch flat screen television to one lucky winner during the last day of Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois.
At Quality Expo, API was featuring the API Tracker3…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced at the Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois, the immediate availability of analog scanning packages on entry level Brown & Sharpe Global Classic coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).
Scanning packages are…
As auto making evolves and cars increasingly become simply computers on wheels, independent repair shops are facing a new kind of problem: trying to decode and read cars’ on-board computer systems in order to diagnose problems and hopefully repair them.
It’s common knowledge that automakers…
(J.P.E. Consulting LLC ) -- J.P.E. Consulting LLC has released their new SIX SIGMA iPhone application. The application was officially released Friday, Sept. 18, and is available for purchase on the iTunes App Store in 23 countries.
The SIX SIGMA iPhone application is designed to be a quick…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available “meter stick” for the nano world, the…
(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- Industrial engineers, quality control inspectors, and researchers can perform image capture and analysis tasks quicker and easier than ever, thanks to the groundbreaking new Olympus microscopy software platform, Stream v1.3. In industrial laboratory…
(Palmer Wahl: Asheville, NC) -- Wahl Instruments Inc. is proud to announce the Wahl Heat Spy Portable Calibration Black Body, an ambient temperature black body used for single point calibration verification and checking of thermal imaging cameras and point infrared thermometers. With an accuracy…
(Advantest: Tokyo) -- Advantest Corp. announces that it has successfully developed the world’s first terahertz (THz) wave imaging system, using Advantest’s original terahertz-wave technology, for nondestructive 3-D analysis and inspection. The system is the first product developed within the…
(GBMP: Worcester, MA) -- On Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 7–8, hundreds of people, those passionate about lean philosophies and those curious to learn more and get started, will descend upon the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, for the 5th Annual Northeast Shingo Prize Conference. The lineup…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The panel of judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest recognition for organizational performance excellence, has selected 15 organizations for the final review stage for the 2009 award. Starting this month, teams of experts in…
Ritz-Carlton employees are passionate, disciplined, and fanatical about their jobs. Over the years, much has been written about the extraordinary customer service you can expect to receive from these bastions of performance excellence. Employees are always seeking to deliver spectacular service,…
A previous article of mine in this newsletter, “NOT Transforming the Data Can Be Fatal to Your Analysis,” addressed the need for appropriate transformations and a predictive performance measurement system.
The statistical business performance charting (SBPC) methodology that was described in…
(New Vista Corp.: Baltimore, MD) -- New Vista Corp. has developed a thread verification unit that is hand-held, the TVU-HH, for the rapid inspection of internal or external threads in production parts. The TVU-HH powers a thread gauge into and out of (or onto and off of) the part. The unit…
(NewsBlaze: Al Asad Airbase, Iraq) -- The Maintenance Platoon with the 47th Transportation Company, 751st Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, from Fort Bliss, Texas, keeps the missions moving.
The company’s Maintenance Platoon supports a fleet of 125 pieces of…
(CGU: Claremont, CA) -- The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and The Drucker Institute have announced the details of the global commemoration and celebration of the life of the late Peter F. Drucker, eminent author, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and…
(UI: Iowa City, IA) -- A group of researchers at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business is using the principles of more efficient manufacturing processes in an effort to help contain ever-increasing health care costs.
“Whether you’re talking about health care or manufacturing, lean…
(FARO Technologies Inc.: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, recently announced the release of their latest 3-D measurement system, the FARO Laser Tracker ION.
The FARO Laser Tracker ION is the most advanced,…
(Z Corp.: Burlington, MA) -- Z Corp. recently introduced the world’s most affordable portable 3-D laser scanner, providing high-resolution 3-D data capture to a broad base of users at an economical price.
The ZScanner 600 extends Z Corp.’s fast-growing line of unique hand-held, self-…
(OGP: Rochester, NY) -- Optical Gaging Products Inc. (OGP) introduces the new Focus Advance 16-inch Horizontal Contour Projector, continuing its longstanding tradition of supplying state-of-the-art optical comparators to the industrial marketplace. The new Focus Advance is a premium bench top…
Top-100 automotive supplier, Kautex, relies on Metris XC50-LS Cross Scanner on LK CMM to verify the production quality of composite fuel tanks. Kautex engineers set up and execute automatic measurement routines that speed up the serial inspection process for fuel tank by 30 percent. Incorporating…
(Snap-on Tools: Kenosha, WI) -- Snap-on Tools Co.’s new Digital Image Capturing Borescope (BK6000) solves the case of inspecting hard-to-see places.
With the Digital Borescope, professional technicians can diagnose problems more accurately and quickly, avoiding disassembly when not…
Product News: Manufacturing Cleanliness with Automated Filter and Particle Analysis System Available
(Olympus America Inc.: Center Valley, PA) -- In fields as diverse as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, heavy machinery, and medical devices, the inspecting and analyzing of residue on filters is key for documenting the purity and cleanliness of the manufacturing process and analyzing particles found…
