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 | Integrating Statgraphics Centurion XV into a Six Sigma Program
Date: March 24, 2008
This white paper discusses how integrating the Statgraphics Centurion statistical tools into a Six Sigma program can provide ongoing benefits across an enterprise. Starting with a brief overview of the Six Sigma philosophy, the discussion then focuses on how the analytical and reporting tools within the Statgraphics Centurion software can be used to implement key components of the Six Sigma approach.
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 | Building a Culture of Compliance
Date: March 3, 2008
This report is about understanding compliance and compliance management adequately to ensure that your organization has the business processes and tools in place to transform compliance from a burden to a benefit. It describes a culture of compliance as an integral part of the organization’s ethics and describes the elements of compliance that are common throughout the organization. It also suggests a plan to manage and coordinate the common elements of compliance so they can produce efficiencies, maintain consistency, improve reliability and assurance, and result in increased stakeholder confidence. Finally, it identifies the key elements of a system to coordinate compliance management, and provides an executive checklist to help assess your organization’s culture of compliance.
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 | Management Systems and the Business Assurance Agenda
Date: January 10, 2008
The purpose of this literature is to stimulate thinking about business assurance by placing it in a series of different contexts. So, for example, we examine business assurance and its importance to the CEO's agenda, and we've taken a look at business assurance in the context of emerging markets like China. We hope the following essays underline the breadth and importance of business assurance and give you a sense of its meaning to us, as we strive to push forward the status and stature of the industry and improve the quality and comprehensiveness of the services we offer our clients throughout the world.
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 | The Factory Diagnosis Diagram
Date: December 13, 2007
As a rule, counting, measurement and experimental data of various origins are initially protocolled or stored in the order of their occurrence. For descriptive and/or analytical processing of such data, it is often advantageous, at times even mandatory, to sort the data in ascending or descending order according to their size, i.e., to bring them into a so-called rank order. In particular, in applied statistics, rank orders form the foundation for certain evaluation methods or graphical presentations, for example in probability charts.
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 | IQS and ISO 13485:2003
Date: August 7, 2007
ISO 13485:2003 is an international standard based on the ISO 9001:2000 process model. The goal of the ISO 13485:2003 regulation is to assure quality, harmonizing requirements and reduction of the conflicting demands on manufacturers. ISO 13485:2003 provides organizations the credentials to do business abroad and assure quality and consistency for medical device products around the globe. IQS delivers integrated quality software that has been built on a complete integrated quality process model.
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 | Data Integrity and Industrial Reliability via Wireless Mesh Networks
Date: August 1, 2007
Industrial environments demand rugged and reliable solutions regardless of the type of system to be deployed. Electronics as a group are some of the most mechanically and performance fragile systems that live on the shop floor. Within this environment there are frequent examples of noise and interference sources that disturb or otherwise impair the reliable functioning of electronics. More and more, wireless sensors and metrology instruments are being deployed in production areas. Wireless systems deliver their quality or production data to critical operations downstream and are crucial components of the modern production reality. With this said, wireless data transmission of data is critically needed and simultaneously vulnerable to shop induced interference.
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 | Seven Traits of a Healthy Control Chart
Date: June 27, 2007
Control charts are valuable tools to help you and your team implement fundamental process changes to improve patient care. But before you can effectively utilize the information from the chart, you must first be confident that the chart being reviewed is healthy. Just as you wouldn’t perform elective surgery on a patient with an infection, you shouldn’t analyze a process improvement chart without first considering seven key attributes.
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 | New 3D Parameters and Filtration Techniques for Surface Metrology
Date: May 15, 2007
For a long time surface metrology has been based upon measurement using 2D profilometers. Over the past twenty years the appearance of 3D profilometers and non-contact gauges has created a need for the standardization and formalization of the analysis of 3D surface texture. This paper presents the current status of the standardization process and includes a short description of the tools and parameters that will become available to users when work on the definition of the new standards, which is being carried out by working groups WG15 and WG16 of ISO technical committee TC213, has been completed.
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