Your editorial, "Stop Bullying" (Quality, June 2002, p. 6) and Chatterjee's, Satpathy's, Ganguli's, and Kumaresh's "Collaboration: Key to World Class Quality" (Quality, June 2002, p. 50) show that the U.S. auto industry has forgotten the techniques and practices it developed about 90 years ago.
Former President Richard M. Nixon often mentioned the "Silent Majority," a reference to the many Americans whom he believed supported his administration's policies but did not speak out. Nixon's critics, on the other hand, were often a quite vocal group.
New networking technology for machine vision data can tie in decision makers from a variety of departments or locations, and that data can be viewed wherever and whenever it is needed.
A new, noncontact surface measurement technology based on holographic imaging techniques offers advantages over traditional methods for mapping the shape of complex objects.
An explosive growth rate averaging 100% per year is every manufacturer's dream. But for Solar Technology (Allentown, PA), a manufacturer of solar-powered traffic control equipment, expansion of this magnitude called for guidance.
The manufacturers of industrial gas turbine engines have long relied upon various nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques, including X-ray and ultrasound, to ensure the quality of their turbine blades. But Alstom Power's Industrial Gas Turbines facility (Lincoln, UK) -- which makes turbines used in the aerospace, marine and power generation industries -- was in search of a better way.
I read your recent editorial with much interest, since I have been battling in the ISO trenches for about 10 years now. I have noticed one thing about the "enemy" in all this, and to paraphrase the cartoon strip "Pogo," it is us!