September 2001
7 Steps to Improved Safety for Medical Devices
Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 1 I 37 Sample HACCP Control Chart Incorporating Injection Molding Verification Procedures TABLE 2 1 Raw material receiving Foreign material in resin Effective supplier audit Audit pass Audit by trai...
Demystifying ISO 9001:2000
Part one of this two- part article focuses on clause 6.2 on human resources, which covers determining competency needs and evaluating actions ( including Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 1 I 65 Demystifying ISO 9001: 2000 Expanded ...
Widgetcraft for One Small Paint Company
One tool we found useful during these meetings was an accountability sheet, where we kept track of our progress in relationship to our Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 1 I 73 Marcus Paint Co. Quality Policy Marcus Paint Co. is comm...
Journey to the Baldrige
Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 1 I 51 Journey to the Baldrige For winners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the coveted honor is just one step in their ongoing quest for performance excellence by Debbie Phillips- Do...
Quality Makes a Splash
Q U A L I T Y P R O G R E S S I S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 1 I 43 Quality Makes a Splash How using quality as a business strategy helped one company win the Baldrige Award by Lloyd P. Provost and Roger B. Quayle OR THE FIRST TIME, a water company has won th...
ASQ News
The E-Learning Center provides Web based courses on topics such as auditing, standards, basics of quality, automotive quality and Six Sigma. The keynote speaker for the Six Sigma Roundtable Oct. 4-5 in Chicago will be Steven H. Hoisington, vice president ...
Column: Emerging Sectors: Cleaning Up With SPC
Statistical process control is playing a role in a huge environmental project at a nuclear weapon production site
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford Nuclear Site played a pivotal role in the nation's defense beginning in the 1940s when it was created as part of the Manhattan Project. The current environmental clean-up...
Column: Frontiers of Quality: Statistical Tools for Six Sigma
What to emphasize and de-emphasize in training
These tools and closely related concepts, such as the design of experiments, are key elements of Six Sigma training and comprise up to half of the standard curriculum. The goal of standard Six Sigma statistical training is to give Green Belts and Black Be...
Quality Web Watch
MEASUREMENT AND TESTING http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/index.html The National Institute of Standards and Technology's units and uncertainty site has contents on the values of constants and related information, in-depth information on the international syste...
