Fill the quality labor gap
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Business enterprises continue to have difficulty recruiting qualified job candidates to fill their staffing requirements. However, contract labor firms and employment agencies are furnishing understaffed organizations another option to successfully recruit quality employees. This is the concept of temporary help, or workers whose services are needed for a limited period for tasks where the required skills are relatively general or easily taught.
Publication Name: Quality
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-9936
Year: 1999
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SPC saves Siecor $1 million
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Telecommunications manufacturers including Siecor, Keller, TX, were forced to modify their manufacturing processes to meet stricter tolerances of the new technology which replaced copper-based networks with fiber optics. Siecor chose the statistical-process control data collection software from Applied Statistics Inc to help disseminate the information. The software allowed Siecor to assess product designs for efficient manufacturing.
Publication Name: Quality
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-9936
Year: 1998
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MKS fits ISO 9000 into existing systems
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The integration of the ISO 9000 standards into the process standards of MKS Instruments Inc. was done with little disruptive effect on the company's everyday activity since the company has a policy and history of quality improvement. The biggest challenge for MKS in adopting the ISO 9000 standard was only the documentation requirement. MKS' overall competitiveness has improved since adopting the ISO 9000.
Publication Name: Quality
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-9936
Year: 1997
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