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For Williams Tool Inc. (Chadwick, NY), a small, metalworking job shop, it was becoming painfully clear that some changes were needed.

Quality Assurance department users at manufacturing company Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Fort Collins, CO) really could have been jealous.

Computer-based training can help workers learn new standards and business procedures-all without leaving the office.

If superior quality is your goal, then ISO 9001 is not what you need.

Regularly scheduled calibration can improve overall accuracy, but drift correction can improve real-time accuracy.

Designers of consumer electronics gear, it seems, are constantly developing ways to shrink a product's size without sacrificing features or capabilities found in the bigger model it is meant to replace.

In Six Sigma machining operations, fighting variation is a never-ending quest.

VIEWING MULTIPLE PROCESS STREAMS ON A BOX PLOT

Balzers Inc. is a coating company, plain and simple. To paraphrase a commercial, they don't make the cutting tools that bore through hard metal; they make them cut longer.

Efficient process control often depends on the ability to rapidly access data from a large number of sources in the production environment, and with optimum accuracy.