Error message
User error: "arg_0" is an invalid render array key in Drupal\Core\Render\Element::children() (line 97 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/Element.php).All News
(IQPC: London) -- Top companies will be sharing their case studies at IQPC’s Business Process Management Spring Summit on April 14–17 at the Intercontinental West Miami Hotel in Miami, Florida. This event brings together first-hand business practitioners under one roof to exchange best practices on…
(ISO/IEC: Geneva, Switzerland) -- From fires to earthquakes to pandemics, businesses and other organizations may become the victims of disaster at any time. To deal with the unexpected and safeguard the interests of their stakeholders, as well as their reputation, brand and value-creating…
(QMI: Toronto, Ontario) -- Robert M. Griffin, president and CEO of CSA Group, has announced that the group has finalized an agreement for the sale of its Quality Management Institute division, a North American registrar, to SAI Global Limited of Sydney, Australia, for $40 million Canadian.
“The…
(MetricStream Inc.: Redwood Shores, California) -- MetricStream Inc. a provider of enterprisewide governance, risk, compliance, and quality management solutions, has released an updated compliance management application. The new release is designed to manage compliance with multiple…
(ANSI: Washington, D.C.) -- The rows of bulk food bins that line many grocery store aisles offer endless options for enhancing recipes. From grains and cereals to nuts, seeds, and spices, the various commodities that fill those bins are standardized through International Organization for…
(Economist Intelligence Unit: London) -- Due to a limited understanding of the customer, one-half of consumer products, financial services, and manufacturing companies say that they find it difficult to decide which products to phase out and which to retain, and only one-third of these companies…
(STLE: Park Ridge, Illinois) -- Concerned with friction and wear, the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers will hold its annual meeting and exhibition May 18–22, at the Cleveland Convention Center in Cleveland. STLE’s purposes are education, improved equipment and processes, and…
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization recently approved the creation of a new project committee to develop an international standard for road traffic safety management systems.
The secretariat of the project committee, ISO/PC 241—“Road safety management,” has been…
(TAGSYS: Düsseldorf, Germany ) -- TAGSYS, a provider of item-level radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure systems, recently announced a technology partnership with Sirit Inc., a provider of RFID reader technologies. The combination of TAGSYS’ RFID systems and software with Sirit…
(IDS Scheer: Orlando, Florida) -- Customers need business process management (BPM) to constantly align their processes with business needs. ARIS Six Sigma combines IDS Scheer’s proven business process excellence approach and Six Sigma’s statistics-driven view. This not only guarantees…
(The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University: Logan, Utah) -- The 20th Shingo Prizes will be awarded in Dallas, Texas, March 31–April 3. The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business of Utah State University will stage its annual conference and awards ceremony at the Adam’s Mark Hotel…
(SME: Los Angeles) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ WESTEC 2008 Exposition and Conference will take place March 31–April 3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The largest annual machine tools and advanced manufacturing event in North America, WESTEC connects manufacturing professionals…
(SWPP: Nashville, Tennessee) -- The Society of Workforce Planning Professionals and The Call Center School are pleased to announce the formation of the Quality Assurance & Training Connection (QATC) as an association and resource for those in the call center industry responsible for quality…
(RABQSA: Sydney, Australia) -- RABQSA International Inc. is officially launching the Australian Pork Industry’s Moisture Infused Pork (MIP) Food Safety Auditor Scope, developed in liaison with industry and Australian Pork Limited (APL).“Australian Pork Limited is leading the way in using the RABQSA…
(Juran Institute: Southbury, Connecticut) -- Joseph M. Juran, Ph.D., noted author and a founder of modern quality management, died on February 28 from natural causes.“Dr. Juran recently told me that he wanted everyone to know he had a wonderful life and hoped that his contributions to improving the…
(NCQA: Washington) -- Two new measures focusing on obesity in children and adults highlight the additions to the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set, released recently for public comment by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Two other additions to the 2009 edition of HEDIS…
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, Michigan) -- Satisfaction with the goods and services that people in the United States buy declined in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to a report recently released by the University of Michigan’s American customer satisfaction index (ACSI). The index fell to 74.9 on the…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Equipping pedestrian street crossings with acoustic and tactile signals to help disabled persons was a step forward. The problem is that they vary from one country to another. Now, a new ISO standard provides the basis for harmonizing such signals on a worldwide basis.The aim of…
(Geomagic: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) -- Geomagic is now shipping Geomagic Studio 10, the latest version of its digital reconstruction software, and offering a free 90-day trial through it’s web site, www.geomagic.com.Geomagic Studio 10 features an optional surfacing module called…
(Delcam plc: Birmingham, United Kingdom) -- Software from Delcam and support from AZtech have helped VMP Team Audi to a successful season.VMP Team Audi has entered into a partnership with Delcam’s South African reseller AZtech covering the supply of software, hardware, and support. Following…
(Multi Metrics Inc.: Menlo Park, California) -- Multi Metrics Inc., a global provider of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) technology, training, and support, recently announced the launch of its SmartGD&T Machine Shop Partner Program, delivering affordable, on-demand, GD…
(InnovMetric Software Inc.: Quebec, Province of Quebec, Canada) -- InnovMetric Software Inc. released an intermediate version of PolyWorks, its universal metrology software platform, in November 2007. With PolyWorks 10.1, InnovMetric significantly increases the productivity of its sheet metal…
(Metris: Leuven, Belgium) -- Metris has recently announced that it has signed a share purchase agreement with the shareholders of X-Tek Group for the purchase of 100 percent of the X-Tek stock. The X-Tek purchase fits in the Metris acquisition strategy to strengthen its product portfolio with…
(Metronor AS: Nesbru, Norway) -- BAE Systems has awarded Metronor AS an additional Harmolign boresight system contract. The contract covers development and supply of a new configuration of the Harmolign boresight system for BAE Systems’ Hawk jet trainer. The system will replace a legacy…
(API Technical Services LLC: Newport News, Virginia) -- API Technical Services LLC is pleased to announce that it has formally started operations as of January 2008. API Technical Services is a new metrology services company, wholly owned by Automated Precision Inc. (API) and is based in Newport…