A requirement forces manufacturers to establish a formal process for dealing with risk management and focuses on how manufacturers can produce safer products.

Measurement: Best Practices for Developing Sensing Systems for Production and Quality Control

January 3, 2012

By Dr. Norman Axelrod

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Make use of available resources and different management environments.

Are You a Whole Team?

December 19, 2011

By Lori Cross and Matthew Philip

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Taking a whole-team approach has proved vital to getting the most out of teams developing software using agile practices. However, whatever industry or business your team is in, the following remedies can prove beneficial in improving team effectiveness and enhancing deliverable quality.

Readers Respond: What Quality System Software Would You Recommend if Starting a Company's Quality Manual from Scratch?

December 19, 2011

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Members of Quality Magazine’s LinkedIn Group offer up their own answers to this question. Do you have a response? Share your comment today.

NVision Helps Reverse Engineer Optical Retailer's Store Display

December 16, 2011

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A national marketing services provider recently used NVision Inc.'s Engineering Service Division to reverse engineer an essential part in a store display for one of the nation's largest optical retailers. NVision was able to quickly scan the part and provide the computer aided design (CAD) files necessary to mass-produce it for the display in the retailer's stores nationwide, enabling millions in annual sales.

Inertial Sensor Components Achieving Higher Mechanical Precision with Profile Tolerancing

December 12, 2011

By Dan Goldman and Dr. Greg Hetland

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Figure 1: This gyroscope housing represents typical complex surface geometries. The features on this part represent a collection of small arc radii and are used within this article to demonstrate

Special Report: Quality Spending Sees Hot Spots

December 9, 2011

By Gillian Campbell

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While overall quality spending is expected to decrease in 2012, some categories are experiencing tremendous growth.

Quality Plan Book: Total Quality Management is Not Total

December 9, 2011

By Walter J. McGee

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A theory of management for American industry intends to confront the quality community with a 24-year-old issue and to fill-in the missing link in contemporary quality assurance.

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The purpose of this field guide is to assist organizations, step by step, in implementing a quality management system (QMS) in conformance with ISO 9001:2008, whether from scratch or by transitioning from ISO 9001:2000. It examines each sub-clause of Sections 4–8 of ISO 9001:2008, which contain the requirements, and gives a list of the documentation/documents required, internal audit questions, a summary of management’s responsibilities, and a flowchart of the steps that need to be undertaken to satisfy the requirements.

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