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Catherine Jimerson, online preregistration user (seated) and Meg Nicklas, director of WCA Hospital patient access services, (standing) cut the ribbon, officially announcing the new WCA Hospital online preregistration service. (WCA Hospital: Jamestown, New…
(Smarter Solutions Inc.: Austin, Texas) -- Today’s Six Sigma Black Belts need more than technical and analytical skills. They also must work with others, using capabilities that include teaching, mentoring, coaching, and motivating. Here are 10 capabilities essential for a Black Belt today, as…
(Instantis: Santa Clara, California) Join Stephan Schwarz, DuPont Master Black Belt, Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST, as he leads a focused session describing best practices and lessons learned from one of the largest, most iconic, and successful operational excellence deployments in…
(ANSI: New York) -- What do cell phones, hot coffee, mp3 players, burritos, and toddlers have in common? Each contributes significantly to driver distraction, the leading cause of automobile accidents in the United States. With the demonstration of a new, totally unmanned vehicle at this week’s…
(ISO: Geneva) -- A brochure recently published by ISO and IEC gives an overview of joint guides that provide advice for standards writers, consumer representatives, designers, product manufacturers, service providers, retail chains, testing laboratories, regulators, and others. “How ISO/IEC Guides…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- “Economic Impact of Measurement in the Semiconductor Industry,” a recent report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology indicates that investment in measurement science has, and will continue to have, a dramatic effect on innovation, productivity,…
(WCBF: Las Vegas) -- WCBF will host the Seventh Annual Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit in Las Vegas, April 1–4, 2008. The focus will be on lean, Six Sigma, and other process improvement methodologies within the health care system. The summit will feature nine presummit…
(ANSI: New York) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued an updated list of consensus standards for use in evaluating medical devices before they are approved by the agency for market entry. The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 authorized the FDA to…
(Standards Council of Canada: Ottawa) -- The Standards Council of Canada has announced that Jacques Régis has began his three-year term as president of the International Electrotechnical Commission. Régis, who becomes IEC’s 32nd president and the first-ever Canadian elected to lead the…
(ISO: Geneva) -- A suite of new ISO standards offers practical tools to address the challenge of effectively managing water resources so as to provide access to safe drinking water and sanitation for the world’s population. ISO recently published three standards providing guidelines for…
(ANSI: New York) -- The Japanese Industrial Standards Committee recently submitted a proposal to the International Organization for Standardization for a new field of technical activity on industrial furnaces and associated thermal processing equipment.This type of thermal equipment is used…
(NQI: Toronto) -- Canada’s National Quality Institute will present “Improving Your Business Through Benchmarking Best Practices” on April 23–24, 2008 in Toronto.Participants in this workshop you may expect learn how to plan and conduct benchmarking as a strategic and operational tool to…
(PowerSteering: Cambridge, Massachussetts).--PowerSteering, the only on-demand, enterprise project portfolio management (PPM) software used to manage information technology, Six Sigma, product development, and other enterprise initiatives, recently announced that its 2007 sales increased by 58…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- A team of computer scientists and mathematicians from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Texas, Arlington, is developing an open-source tool that catches programming errors by using an emerging approach called “combinatorial…
(Best Practices: Chapel Hill, North Carolina) -- Many companies believe that they deliver superior customer experience, but far fewer customers agree with this assessment. Because the many elements that add up to the customer experience can have such a profound effect on business performance and…
(CSPI: Washington) -- On several Web sites, the Sara Lee Corp. muses about how consumers are likely to mistakenly believe that many “whole grain” breads are actually more like whole wheat bread than white bread, and chides its competitors for not being “100-percent whole-grain.” Sara Lee helps…
From left, Col. Michael Pelletier, 555th Aircraft Sustainment Squadron commander; Col. James Fulton, 727th Aircraft Sustainment Group commander; DeLana Aylor, 448th Combat Sustainment Wing financial management; and Ernie Guttery, 76th Maintenance Support Group, discuss their…
Guest speaker Julie Rushin, director at Internal Revenue Service’s strategy and finance division (ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Lean Six Sigma experts from around the world will gather at the 8th Annual American Society for Quality Lean Six Sigma Conference Feb. 11-12…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality’s 2008 World Conference on Quality and Improvement, May 5-7, 2008 in Houston, Texas, will provide attendees with a myriad of improvement opportunities. More than 90 breakout sessions are planned ranging from topics on business excellence,…
(Paton Professional: Chico, California) -- Santa Claus became aware of the ISO 9001 standard several years ago and immediately recognized the value it could bring to his North Pole operation. The ever-generous Claus now offers gratis his quality manual as a PDF download from which all can benefit.…
(CSPI: Washington) -- In a report released in mid-November, the Food and Drug Administration claimed a new report prepared by the Eastern Research Group showed it would be difficult to create advisory committees free from conflicts of interest and that advisers granted conflict-of-interest waivers…
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute’s (ANSI) board of directors recently appointed its new members and officers for the term beginning January 1, 2008.Robert W. Noth, manager of engineering standards for Deere & Co., was reappointed for a third one-year term as ANSI’s…
(ASTM International: West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) -- Chemical plants and contract and research laboratories will all be likely users of a new ASTM International standard, D 7183—“Test Method for Determination of Total Sulfur in Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Related Chemicals by Ultraviolet…
(ANSI: New York) -- National governments and companies around the world have recognized the strategic and economic value of a workforce that is well-versed on standardization principles. Many industry sectors, associations, and countries have already begun to introduce standards and conformity…
Would you like to win a Baldrige award? Well, first you have to say so. The Examiners aren’t mind readers, you know. The PDF version of the Baldrige Award Application Forms booklet will tell you whether your organization is eligible to apply and how to go about the two-phase application…