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(Veriteq: Vancouver, BC, Canada) -- Veriteq Instruments recently announced the release of their new viewLinc monitoring and alarming system for regulated controlled environments. The viewLinc 3.4 validatable system provides continuous, gap-free records and automates the generation and delivery of…
(AIAM: Arlington, VA) -- The Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM) recently filed comments with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing a waiver request that would allow the ethanol content of gasoline to be increased from 10 percent (E10) to 15 percent (E15). The…
(Marposs Corp.: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs Corp. will introduce the i-Wave, its newest wireless device in the M1 Star bore gauge product line, at Quality Expo 2009 in booth 4739, Sept. 22–24, in Rosemont, Illinois. The i-Wave wireless handle allows quick and easy plug-and-play changeover of a…
(John Wiley & Sons Inc.: Hoboken, NJ) -- The Age of Innovation is here. Without a culture of innovation, you will not stay on top for long. And when you throw the stalled economy into the mix, the bright ideas of your employees may be all that stands between your company and disaster, say…
(SAE: Detroit) -- In the face of a difficult economy, SAE International will phase out its consulting service, the SAE Automotive Resources Institute (ARi) by the end of 2009. The phase-out will be conducted in an orderly manner to ensure that all current projects are completed to the…
In a recent post on the Evolving Excellence blog, Bill Waddell tackles one of my pet peeves: activity-based costing, or ABC. Few things do more harm to lean Six Sigma than this method of accounting. In fact, it is my opinion that the accounting systems used by U.S. businesses are responsible for a…
Just the other week, I had the privilege of visiting with three or four companies that were doing lean process improvement. In every visit, each company invited me into their “war room” where they took great pride in showing me their process and value-stream maps and the other trappings of their…
(ASD: Birmingham, MI) -- ASD’s GageMux USB simplifies and streamlines data collection. Specifically developed to keep on the cutting edge of technology, the new GageMux USB multiple input gauge interface now has three user selectable outputs of backward compatibility and environmentally friendly…
Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when woven into a web…
(Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc.: Thornwood, NY) -- The Primo Star iLED microscope now available with three additional fluorescence attachments that allow users to work with different dyes such as FITC, Dapi, and Rhodamine/Cy 3. This permits the use of the LED-based microscope for single fluorescence…
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SO 10002—"Quality management—Customer satisfaction—Guidelines for complaints handling in organizations" helps organizations of all sizes and all sectors to understand and process customer complaints of their products or services, including planning, design, operation, maintenance, and…
(Promess Inc.: Brighton, MI) -- Promess Inc. has added a series of hollow-shaft units to its line of Torque Functional Test (TFT) Systems intended for intelligent assembly applications. Based on direct drive rotary motor technology, the new TFT-HS series permits users to access components with…
(American Society for Quality: Milwaukee) -- It's a challenging time for you and your organization. You’re competing in a shrinking marketplace, and you have fewer resources at your disposal. How can you attract new customers, keep your current customers, and improve your bottom line? Attend "…
Joyalukkas Jewellery is one of the world’s favorite jewelers, with a retail chain of more than 70 showrooms across the Middle East, India, and Europe. The company has grown over the past two decades to become a household name for the wide range of contemporary, ethnic, and traditional jewelry it…
"Innovate at all costs!" This is the exhortation from innumerable business articles and best-selling business books. These authors describe how to innovate but fail to include how to find the time to innovate. What's needed is a tool to help find the time to think about and act on innovation. The…
Search the internet for “What is SPC?” and there are many definitions and descriptions of statistical process control that are correct but not complete. They are true but not the whole truth.
From the search results, a general definition and description of SPC could be as follows.
Definition: SPC…
(Quality Digest: Louisville, KY) -- As first reported in the July 17th issue of Quality Digest Daily, Hexagon Metrology has filed patent infringement litigation against Metris N.V. and its U.S. subsidiary Metris U.S.A. Inc. The basis of that lawsuit, according to court documents obtained by…
(Hexagon Metrology Inc.: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc., on July 21 at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) in Louisville, Kentucky, announced the North American debut of the new Leica TDRA6000 Total Station, the most accurate Leica Geosystems total station ever…
(Lattice Technology Inc.: San Francisco) -- Lattice Technology, developers of digital manufacturing applications using the extensible virtual world description language (XVL) format, today announced Version 6.0 of its XVL Converter applications, delivering the tools to convert 3-D CAD data into…
(ISO: Geneva) -- The ISO Annual Report 2008 highlights the ability of International Standards to provide confidence during the current global financial crisis.
"Refined to its essence, the objective of ISO standards is to provide confidence," the report states. "When a product or service meets…
(A2LA: Frederick, MD) -- The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) recently announced the expansion of the laboratory accreditation requirements to encompass the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (DOD ELAP).
On April 1, at the DOD…
I remember reading a book when I was younger, about a girl who was separated from her family during the Westward Migration, and forced to live on her own in the wilderness of early spring in 1860s America (unfortunately I don’t remember the name of the book). At one point in the adventure, the …
(Quality Digest: Louisville, KY) -- Real-time 3-D capture and comparison to a CAD model—on a moving part—generated some excitement at the CMSC show when Creaform demonstrated the capabilities of its HandyPROBE 3-D probing system running with Verisurf software.
The HandyPROBE is a wireless…
(Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Tualatin, OR) -- The 2009 Western Region Shingo Prize Conference will be held Sept. 29–30 at the Portland Center Stage in Portland, Oregon.
The organizers have chosen a progressive conference format, venue, and city. The aim is to connect attendees with…
(NQF: Washington, DC) -- To continue improving health care quality through measurement and public reporting, the National Quality Forum (NQF) has identified and approved criteria for evaluating composite measures. The majority of the hundreds of NQF-endorsed quality measures focus on a single…
