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Six Sigma for the Rest of Us
Within large corporations, Six Sigma's popularity as a means of improving quality and reducing costs continues to increase. However, the same can't be said of small and medium-sized organizations, which, as a rule, have been less enthusiastic about adopting Six Sigma. Nevertheless, smaller companies should consider that business process principles...
Tags: Quality Digest, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-09-26
Product Realization - The Revised Standard Focuses On Customer Requirements.
Many of the clauses from ISO 9001:1994 are incorporated into ISO 9001:2000's section 7, Product realization. This article groups the requirements from the 1994 version's clauses. It also addresses process planning and customer communication and is the only section of the standard that allows exclusions to the requirements. The summaries...
Tags: Clause, ISO, Realization, Quality Digest, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Six Sigma Strategies: Creating Excellence in the Workplace
A true Six Sigma organization produces not only excellent product but also maintains highly efficient production and administrative systems that work effectively with the company's other service processes. However, not every organization takes this holistic approach. Production processes still may run at low yields with high scrap ratios and defects....
Tags: Workplace, Quality Digest, Six Sigma Organization, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Now Anyone Can Design Professional Surveys and Analyze Results!
Gathering feedback from customers is a snap with SURVEYWin, from the award winning folks at Raosoft! No matter how big or small your organization is, you can do sophisticated market research or satisfaction surveys with ease... and without spending a fortune. This product supports every element of a good research...
Tags: Survey, Quality Digest, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
ISO 14001 Brings Change and Delivers Profits
Prior to the introduction of ISO 14001 more than four years ago companies developed internal environmental management systems EMSs primarily to increase profitability. Due to the lack of guidance and structure and the added costs of creating an EMS, few companies chose to implement one. Market pressure is now the...
Tags: ISO 14001, Quality Digest, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Is It Worth It?
The article is about the Baldrige award that not only recognizes superior businesses but also increases understanding of the elements critical for performance excellence. In today's competitive marketplace, ISO 9000 registration is becoming a requirement for doing business in many industries. To remain competitive, companies need to go beyond that....
Tags: Performance, Quality Digest, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-01

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The Century of Quality: quality experts find no shortage of work thanks to an ever-increasing number of regulations and certifications
In 1999, quality guru Joseph M. Juran predicted that historians someday would characterize the 21st century as the Century of Quality. To be worthy of such a legacy, however, Juran said more companies would need to "scale up" efforts related to their quality systems if they wanted to attain such...
Tags: audit, certification, FDA, Government, ISO, Quality, regulation
Research articles 2007-05-01
Six Sigma at Ford Revisited
When Quality Digest spoke to Ford Motor Co. in 2001, the company's Six Sigma initiative was just getting underway, and Ford was in the process of working out all the kinks that come along with implementing a new quality improvement program. Six Sigma at Ford has been in the works...
Tags: QCI International, Ford Motor Co., Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
Case studies 2003-01-01
Classy new Camry, INVESTOR DIGEST
Investor Digest Malaysia 10-16-2002 THE CAMRY NAME HAS BEEN HELD IN such high regard for a long time with the mere mention of this Toyota model conjuring compliments of quality and durability. So when it came time for a fifth generation...
Tags: Toyota Motor Corp.
Research articles 2002-10-16
Polaroid 1200 FF, INVESTOR DIGEST
Investor Digest Malaysia 10-16-2001 SPOT-ON excitement: Update to a new sleek and retro-look; the 1200 FF integrates new features for taking quality instant photos, including a wider angle of viewing for capturing 33% more information in an i Investor Digest...
Tags: Investor, Polaroid
Research articles 2001-10-16
Integrity, the best policy, INVESTOR DIGEST
Investor Digest Malaysia 02-16-2003 INTEGRITY is a simple but meaningful word. It means adherence to moral principles, honesty, the quality of being unimpaired, and soundness. Arguably, it should be an ideal for Mankind that cuts across all Investor...
Tags: corporate governance, Enron Corp., Top Management
Research articles 2003-02-16
iJoy® Robotic Massage Chair by Interactive Health® Receives Esteemed Consumers Digest ''Best Buy'' Endorsement
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Consumers Digest magazine has designated the iJoyR 130 Robotic Massage Chair as a "best buy" in the November/December 2005 issue. On average, a Consumers Digest "Best Buy" is awarded to fewer than 3% of the competing models in any given product category. This distinction is only...
Tags: Interactive Health Inc.
Research articles 2005-10-31
Consumers Digest Names Dimension One Spas' AquaFit 19 Dual Temp ``Best Buy'' in Portable Spas
Business Editors SAN DIEGO--BUSINESS WIRE--March 5, 2003 Dimension One Spas' AquaFitTM 19 Dual Temp, a revolutionary product combining aquatic exercise and hydromassage, was recognized in the April 2003 issue of Consumers Digest as a "Best Buy" in portable spas. A Consumers Digest "Best Buy" is defined as...
Tags: Dimension One Spas Inc.
Research articles 2003-03-05
Great Lakes pollution abatement. (Environmental Wastes Control digest.)
Efforts to control and monitor the amount of toxic material found in the Great Lakes basin have started. The Great Lakes Initiative is an important water quality regulation proposed by the EPA. Together with the approval of the 1990 drafted Great Lakes Water Quality Guidance, the regulation contains detailed procedures...
Tags: chemicals, Government, pollution, Regulations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 1993-10-01
Boosting arts participation: Wallace Fund targets auds.(Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds provides grants to local theaters)(Brief Article)
If there's one thing as important to local theaters as presenting quality productions, it's the ability to attract a younger and more ethnically diverse audience. Fortunately, savvy U.S. arts organizations are doing just that and more, thanks to the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds. ...
Tags: Arena Stage
Research articles 2002-07-29
Funding RO small systems. (Las Animas, Colorado's reverse osmosis plant)(Water Works Digest)
Las Animas, CO, has built a reverse osmosis plant to improve water quality. Water quality studies reveal that, before the water treatment facility, sulfate and sodium concentrations in individual city wells were high. The effort was financed through grants from the Dept. of Commerce and Community Development Block Grant and...
Tags: Animas Corp.
Research articles 1997-04-01
ISO 9000:2001
Many companies are making the transition to ISO 9001:2000, however some are reportedly struggling to move from the 20 original ISO 9000:1994 elements to a process-oriented standard in which criteria aren't as strictly defined. To help all types of companies that operate ISO 9000:1994 quality systems make the transition to...
Tags: QCI International, ISO, ISO 9001:2000, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations
Case studies 2001-09-11
Fairchild, booth #2101.(Expo Digest)
Firstgear's new Fuel Jacket combines race quality leather with the comfort of heavy-duty ballistic nylon, while the company's equally new Ghost Rider jacket has a high-strength, abrasion resistant Hyper Tex shell including aggressive forearm and elbo Firstgear's new Fuel Jacket combines race quality leather with ...
Tags: Fairchild Semiconductor Corp.
Research articles 2005-02-14
Offer customers staron by Samsung. (Special Advertising Section: Product & Literature Digest).
A SOLID SURFACE VALUE IN MORE THAN 50 COLORS, STARON OFFERS PRACTICAL ELEGANCE AND EASY MAINTENANCE. PLUS, ITS CONSISTENT QUALITY WILL ENHANCE THE LOOK OF YOUR ... A SOLID SURFACE VALUE IN MORE THAN 50 COLORS, STARON OFFERS PRACTICAL ELEGANCE AND EASY MAINTENANCE. PLUS,...
Tags: Quality, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2003-01-01
Molecular sizing of dissolved organics. (Waterworks Digest)
Aquatic humic substances generally account for about 50 percent of dissolved organic matter DOM as measured by dissolved organic carbon present in natural waters. A major water quality concern is that humic substances react with chlorine during wat Aquatic humic substances generally account for about 50...
Tags: carbon, Molecular Inc.
Research articles 1992-09-01
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