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Legal Insight

Protect Your Property

How much do you know about property and casualty insurance?
April 16, 2013

With regard to their businesses, entrepreneurs and executives should think carefully about risks to people and property.


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Shifting the Paradigm: Lean Six Sigma Project’s Voice of the Customer (VOC)

April 16, 2013

When examining a project from a supplier-input-process-output-customer point of view, suppliers of a customer focus on what they do in a process.


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Software & Analysis

Got 10,000 Data Points?

Rethinking the SPC workflow for large-scale data.
April 15, 2013

Just as a recipe designed for four may require some changes if it is called upon to serve 4,000, dramatically up-scaling the number of quality metrics being monitored may demand new approaches when deploying SPC.


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The People Theory: Motivating Others

April 12, 2013

The following is a series of articles that longtime Quality columnist and blogger Jim Smith penned in 1979 to motivate employees.


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GD&T Workshop

GD&T Best Practices

Controlling the geometry of slots.
April 12, 2013

Let’s look at what it takes to control the geometry of slots, and see if there is indeed a “best practice.”


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AME Names New Champions Club Director

April 9, 2013

Oliver brings a lifetime of manufacturing and AME experience. 


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February U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 5.7% from January

April 9, 2013

 

With a year-to-date total of $750.94 million, 2013 is down 11.9% compared with 2012.


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Face of Quality

Ten Reasons to Invest in Yourself

Today's World Takes No Pity on People Who Do Not Add Value.
April 8, 2013

Following are ten potential career benefits that can be realized when you upgrade your skills and knowledge by pursuing a professional certification.


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On Target with PDCA: A Quality Improvement Case Study

April 4, 2013

In this example of a quality improvement project the performance of a catapult needed improvement due to a high degree of variation in the distance traveled by a projectile.


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Management

A Real Professional

The 2013 Quality Professional of the Year is a meticulous, detail-oriented auditor who makes the audit process easier.
April 2, 2013

Bill Arbogast, our 2013 Quality Professional of the Year, almost became an architect.


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Multimedia

Videos

Podcasts

Bill Arbogast explains his perspective on quality, ISO 9001, and how to manage inevitable business changes.


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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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