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		<title><![CDATA[Valenzi Focuses On Product Quality With METTLER TOLEDO GARVENS Technology]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nestled within the idyllic Lüneburger Heath area, Germany, lies a company with international operations: Valenzi has been processing mushrooms and forest fruits to produce preserves and frozen products since 1954. Valenzi ensures product quality with GARVENS checkweighers. Valenzi uses the checkweigher to check up to four different products ranging from...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Product Quality Is Ensured Using GARVENS Checkweighers And SAFELINE Metal Detectors]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HACO AG has been a METTLER TOLEDO customer for over 30 years. Before their soups, sauces and other products reach the retailer or end consumer, they undergo extensive quality control inspection. Integrated high-performance metal detectors from METTLER TOLEDO SAFELINE check the ingredients for metal contamination that could have entered the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Revenue Management For Products With Unknown Quality And Observable Price And Sales History]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper studies pricing strategies of a monopolist when customers are strategic and infer the product quality from historical sales and price paths. This behavior may be expected when selling a new, innovative product whose quality is unknown and customers have some, but, imperfect information about the product quality. The...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[IHOP Corp. Names Dr. Dustin Dixon Vice President of Product, Quality Assurance and Purchasing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[GLENDALE, Calif. -- IHOP Corp. (NYSE:IHP) today announced the appointment of Dustin Dixon, Ph.D., as Vice President, Product, Quality Assurance and Purchasing. In this position, Dr. Dixon is responsible for the creation of new products, product specifications, quality assurance, food safety, purchasing and distribution. The appointment demonstrates IHOP's commitment to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Quality takes a beating: can manufacturing's favorite superhero fend off cost pressures, complex electronics and untested products? Stay tuned.(product quality)(Cover story)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Marc Trahan began setting a new services group responsible for  tracking product quality for Audi North America in June 2002, he had no  idea what awaited him. Although a controversial safety issue had plagued  the model 5000 series in the United S  When Marc Trahan...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sun Deploys Siebel Solutions to Drive Revenues and Improve Sales Management, Customer Support, and Product Quality]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems is widely respected as one of the most innovative and successful technology companies in the world. Throughout its more than 20-year history, Sun has maintained a decentralized infrastructure and operations, allowing the company the agility to respond to different opportunities in markets worldwide. Faced with the challenges of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Identifying Exporter's Relative Product Quality Variation From Export Unit Values]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper develops a methodology for decomposing cross-country variation in export unit values into quality versus real price components. The methodology is based on revealed preferences in an environment where consumers have a taste for variety. The authors have derived conditions under which the unobserved export quality ratio of any...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Multi-Period Robust Capacity Planning Based on Product and Process Simulations]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a method for allocating production capacity among flexible and dedicated machines based on uncertain demand forecasts of products in a production portfolio. Given multiple scenarios of future demands with the associated probabilities, the method provides alternative capacity allocations by quantifying the expected values of the product quality...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Frost & Sullivan awards A.O. Smith for quality.(News: companies ... associations ... people ... government ... trends)(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A.O. Smith Water Products Co. was presented with the 2003 Product  Quality Leadership Award by Frost & Sullivan for its high product  quality and excellent after-sales support to its residential and  commercial water heater customers.    A.O. Smith Water Products Co. was presented with the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Process Analysis And Product Quality Estimation By Self-Organizing Maps With An Application To Polyethylene Production]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313797]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The huge amount of data recorded by modern production systems definitely has the potential to provide information for product and process design, monitoring and control. This paper presents a soft-computing based approach for the extraction of knowledge from the historical data of production. Since Self-Organizing Maps SOM provide compact representation...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Addressing Quality In The Real World]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=93475]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Quality can be defined as the measure of customer's satisfaction with a particular product or service. A good quality product is one, which satisfies the customer. Product quality is often determined by process quality. Therefore, it is imperative to visualize quality in the context of the entire organization. The paper...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enhancement of Cooked Meat Quality & Safety Via Packaging]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=119689]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Manufacturers of cooked meat products select packaging for two major reasons: preservation of product quality and inhibition of microbial growth. Product quality attributes are paramount to consumer acceptance. Customers are demanding consumer-friendly packaging such as, easy open, recloseable, dual-ovenable and microwaveable packaging. A variety of anti-microbial agents has been incorporated...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Issues of CBD Product Quality and Process Quality]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=134489]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This position paper presents arguments for including the properties of processes involved in various approaches to component-based software development in predicting system properties. It discusses how processes impact on system properties and relates the issues rose to standards that already address process and product quality. Although many standards still apply,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Quality management solutions. (Gensym's G2 Quality Expert software for use in food and beverage companies)(Evaluation)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6635/is_199805/ai_n26508572]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Gensym's G2 Quality Expert software is a useful product quality control and optimization tool for food companies. The software uses the company's intelligent systems technologies for improved quality control solutions and efficient process management deciGensym's G2 Quality Expert software is a useful product quality control and optimization tool for food...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Making measurements pay off in product quality.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3381/is_199801/ai_n8126478]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been some disappointment in recent years as companies  realize that quality programs do not necessarily guarantee higher  product quality. Measurements can direct a company to find where quality  is falling short, but it still must mobilize     There has been some disappointment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How AT&T gets six-sigma quality. (quality improvement strategy) (Quality Report)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When AT&T's Transmission Systems Business Unit talks about  quality, suppliers listen. After all the division with its design and  manufacturing facility based in North Andover, Mass., won the 1992  Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the Massa  When AT&T's Transmission Systems Business Unit talks about  quality,...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Converting furnace from electric to natural gas burners reduces costs  54%     The ABB Power T&D Company facility in Jefferson City, MO,  manufactures distribution transformers for the electric utility  industry. The company, part of the Swiss-headq  Converting furnace from electric to natural gas...]]></description>
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