August 2001
ISO 9001 Without Tears
A quality management system patterned on ISO 9001:2000 doesn't have to be difficult to implement and manage. The standard can be reduced to one relatively short manual containing procedures that are never longer than a single page. To do this, the quality...
Annual Quality Awards Listing
Annual Quality Awards Listing compiled by Corinne N. Johnson, Editorial Assistant he annual Quality Awards Listing is Quality Progress' resource guide to automotive, government, international, national, regional and state quality related awards and award...
A Quality Swing With Ping
Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I A U G U S T 2 0 0 1 I 37 A Quality Swing With Ping ISO 9000 and 14000 certifications continue a customer focused, environmentally aware legacy at a family owned golf equipment manufacturer by Robert T. Driescher HEN JOHN A...
10 Steps to a Baldrige Award Application
Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I A U G U S T 2 0 0 1 I 49 10 Steps To a Baldrige Award Application Even if you don't win, the feedback is invaluable; and even if you don't apply, the self- assessment will do wonders for your organization by C. W. Russ Rus...
The Game of Statistics
O R G T H E G A M E O F S TAT I S T I C S Top Position Players and Pitchers on Each Team in the 2000 World Series TABLE 1 Team Player Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Total PGP PGP/ Game Jose Vizcaino, 2B 32.2 - 2.7 - 6.7 - 3.6 19.3 3.9 Derek Jeter, SS...
Big League Quality
Today, the company manufactures wood bats, aluminum bats and hockey sticks in six plants in the C Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I A U G U S T 2 0 0 1 I 27 Q U A L I T Y AT P L AY Branding a bat with the famous Louisville Slugger trademark. Player Record...
ASQ News
For conference or exhibitor registration information, call Tom Trbovich, conference chair, at 210-522-3145, or John Dew, conference technical program chair, at 205-348-9831, or visit www.asq-eed.org/conferences/natlconf2001.htm. Quality professionals hol...
Column: Worldview: Quality Management Challenges In Romania
Modern quality principles and a quality award lead to spectacular results at a few companies
Like other former communist countries, Romania today faces two main challenges: the transition to democracy, a free market economy and an information society as well as integration into Western European and Euro-Atlantic...
Quality Web Watch
MEASUREMENT AND TESTING www.nist.gov/traceability The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a Web site devoted to measurement traceability--whether the results of a specific measurement can be related to accepted international or natio...
