Quality Progress 1992 - Abstracts

Quality Progress 1992
TitleSubjectAuthors
10 steps to positive cash flow. (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
A Canadian hospital implements continuous quality improvement. (Community Memorial Hospital) (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSharyn Materna, Ken Rothe
A crisis in health care. (Special Issues: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert A. Fried
Aisin envisions its path to success. (Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd.)Engineering and manufacturing industriesShigeo Aiki
Analyzer functions as arbitrary waveform generator. (Tektronix Inc.'s 2642A Fourier Analyzer) (Equipment Overview: Waveform Analyzers) (Product Announcement)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Analyzer troubleshoots electrical problems. (Dranetz Technologies Inc.'s model 658 Power Quality Analyzer) (Equipment Overview: Waveform Analyzers) (Product Announcement)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
AQC attendees rate Baldrige Award influence. (Annual Quality Congress; Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Benchmarking the Baldrige Award. (Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award)(includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn L. Sunday, Larry Liberty
Beyond the smile: improving service quality at the grass roots.Engineering and manufacturing industriesKen Myers, Jim Buckman
Boards should be involved in health care's quality efforts. (health care management trustees)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Breaking cultural barriers. (cultural diversity in the workplace)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAudrey K. Charlton, Jerry D. Huey
Building a team. (teamwork)Engineering and manufacturing industriesD. Keith Denton
Bush presents national medal to Juran for life's work. (Pre. George Bush; Joseph M. Juran) (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Business statistics curricula lacks quality.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid M. Levine
Can quality management really work in health care? (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesA. Blanton Godfrey
Category 3: strategic quality planning. (Inside the Baldridge Award Guidelines)Engineering and manufacturing industriesIngeborg A. Marquardt
Category 4: human resource development and management. (Inside the Baldrige Award Guidelines)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNicholas Leifeld
Category 5: management of process quality. (Inside the Baldridge Award Guidelines)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMaureen S. Heaphy
Category 6: quality and operational results. (Inside the Baldrige Awards Guidelines.)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKenneth E. Case, James S. Bigelow
Category 7: customer focus and satisfaction. (Inside the Baldrige Award Guidelines)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert L. Desatnick
Choosing appropriate sample subgroup sizes for control charts. (One Good Idea)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLyle Dockendorf
CIGNA begins its quality transformation. (CIGNA Property and Insurance Co.)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBaran John
CIOs are uncomfortable making out-sourcing predictions. (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Cluster analysis as a quality management tool.Engineering and manufacturing industriesAndrew W. Spisak
Collaboration, cooperation, and celebration. (company management)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid Severson
COPIS focus. (customer, output, process, input, supplier) (One Good Idea)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDennis Sowards, Pat Temple
Creating Canada's future.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid R. McCamus
Curing what ails U.S. health care. (includes related article on international quality study) (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care )Engineering and manufacturing industriesCraig Anderson
Customer satisfaction: how good is good enough?Engineering and manufacturing industriesPete Babich
Customers have the ears of Keithley's Engineers. (customer feedback at Keithley Instruments, Inc)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Delivering quality to retailers and consumers. (News )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Demystifying the ISO 9000/Q90 series standards. (International Organization for Standardization)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDennis R. Arter
Designing quality into work life. (Quality of Work Life Accord)(includes related articles)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWendy Scott Bertrand
Developing the next generation of quality leaders.Engineering and manufacturing industriesEdwin Artzt
Don't cut costs, manage them. (cost management)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Encoders close the loop in modern motion control. (optical encoders)Engineering and manufacturing industriesArthur Retberg
Encoders. (Equipment Overview)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Energy analyzer is multifunctional. (Dranetz Technologies Inc.'s 8000 Energy Analyzer) (Equipment Overview: Waveform Analyzers) (Product Announcement)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Executive calls: a jump start for your quality program. (One Good Idea)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert N. Robertson
Executive summary. (hands-on leadership)Engineering and manufacturing industriesM.H. Schwartz
Five companies win 1992 Baldrige award. (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Flowcharts can show process improvements in action. (Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKris A. Rasmussen
For more information.... (information service and technology) (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Furon takes a quantum leap. (Furon Co. Aerospace Components Division turns to computer integrated manufacturing systems to enhance overall performance)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
GE supply's programs provide value-added services. (General Electric Co GE Supply)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Group helps the environment and improves quality.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Grumman's GQ makes quality fashionable. (Grumman Corp.; Grumman Quality)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Harley-Davidson spends $80 million on quality. (Harley-Davidson Inc.'s new paint facility)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Hospital processes can't be improved until they are understood. (Special Issues: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKeith E. Jackson
How to make TQM and CI programs work. (total quality management;continuous improvement)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames B. Rieley
Hurdles to quality health care. (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesK.N. Gopalakrishnan, Barry E. McIntrye
IBM-Mexico center trains employees and clients. (News )Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Implementing internal quality improvement with the house of quality. (quality function deployment)Engineering and manufacturing industriesK. N. Gopalakrishnan, Barry E. McIntyre, James C. Sprague
Implementing TQM in a hospital. (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLaura L. Matherly, H. Alan Lasater
Implementing TQM in health care requires adaptation and innovation. (total quality management) (Special Issues: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard A. Mueller
Improve processes with the quality journal. (process improvement methods)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHana Tomasek
Improving health care's suppliers. (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLoyd Eskildson, Gary R. Yates
Improving the quality of management systems.Engineering and manufacturing industriesA. Richard Shores
Ineffective - that's the problem with customer satisfaction surveys. (addressing customer satisfaction measurements' shortcomings)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn A. Goodman, Scott M. Broetzmann, Colin Adamson
Initiative targets government agencies. (National Technology Initiative) (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Inside the Baldridge Award Guidelines. (Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award) (Category 2: Information and Analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTracy Omdahl
Inside the Baldrige Award Guidelines, category 1: leadership. (Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award)(includes leadership evaluation form)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRhonda L. Sullivan
Integrating the Japanese and American work forces. (communication problems between Japanese employers and American employees)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLinda S. Dillon
It's more than statistics. (quality strategy in data storage)Engineering and manufacturing industriesA. Donald Stratton
Leading and managing authority relationships: guidelines for supervisors and subordinates.Engineering and manufacturing industriesBetty-Jean Lamb, Mark Publow
Leading to quality. (management's role in improving productivity through quality enhancement)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHarry J. Levinson, Chuck DeHont
Listening to the behaviour of customers. (One Good Idea)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael E. Smith
Maintaining calibration control with a control chart. (One Good Idea)Engineering and manufacturing industriesYves Van Nuland
Measuring progress in SPC implementation. (statistical process control status categories grid identifies implementation problems)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald Baltz
Microwave system tests solids. (CEM Corp.'s LabWave 9000 solids analyzer) (Equipment Overview: Waveform Analyzers) (Product Announcement)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Mismatched management techniques.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald Starcher
Multimeters: the test and measurement workhorses of the workplace.Engineering and manufacturing industriesScott Wolfmeyer
National Quality Month. (Quality '92 campaign promoting the importance of quality to economic stability)(includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
New York recognizes quality excellence. (New York State Excelsior Award for Quality at Work)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Partnerships for quality. (total quality in manufacturing)Engineering and manufacturing industriesAnthony J. Girifalco
Patients are satisfied with hospital care. (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Performance appraisals and Deming: a misunderstanding? (W. Edwards Deming)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJim M. Graber, Roger E. Breisch, Walter E. Breisch
Process management methodology brings uniformity to DBS. (Dun and BradstreetSoftware Services Inc.)(includes related articles)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEdward J. Kane
Producing managers right the first time. (business school teaching and curriculum)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLawrence R. Dorsky
Programs perform normal curve calculations.Engineering and manufacturing industriesAnton B. Usowski
Protectionism or total quality management?Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael J. Stahl
Protectionism spurs conflicting views. (survey)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Putting quality back in the barrel. (The Barrel Company adopts total quality management to regain success)(includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesG.M. Herrington
Quality as a board game. (board of directors)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Ryan
Quality begins and ends with data. (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesStephen Ryan, Paul P. Fahey
Quality enhancement projects improvement health care. (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesConnie Claybaker, John James Picken
Quality improvement and organizational malaise. (includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHoward L. Thurber
Quality in a litigious land. (lawsuits against architects)Engineering and manufacturing industriesArmanda C. Squadrilli
Quality management in an economic downturn. (advantages of total quality management applications during economic recessions)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam E. Conway
Quality wasn't a game to Parker Brothers. (Hashbro Inc. Parker Brothers' World Class Management program)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Quantitative quality descriptors for an open-heart program. (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesThomas William E. Jr., W.C. Benton Jr., William J. Fannng, Thomas D. Hankins, Gerard S. Kakos
Reading, writing and quality tools. (educational systems and total quality management)(includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJulie E. Horine
Recession has not affected training budgets. (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Reviewing organizational policies and rules. (includes related article on key concepts of W. Edwards Deming)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBen Carlson, Gipsie B. Ranney
Scientifically selecting suppliers.Engineering and manufacturing industriesVera K. Pang
Service quality is on the rebound. (improving service quality in the US)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Seven steps to a successful customer survey.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRon H. Casell
Shedding light on UV test equipment. (ultraviolet light)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLes Davis
Small wonders. (small businesses)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Statistics in quality engineering.Engineering and manufacturing industriesLynne B. Hare
Steel mill minimizes downtime. (control system) (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Strategic leadership for quality in health care. (includes related article on Kaiser Permanente) (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid M. Lawrence
Students aren't learning quality principles in business schools.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul E. Morrison, Christopher W.L. Hart
Success and failure: two sides of the same coin.Engineering and manufacturing industriesC. Robert Nelms
The advantages of manufacturing technology planning. (includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn W. Scharlacken
The Crawford Slip Method. (procedures for data gathering and condensation as applied to Total Quality Management issues)(includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJanet Fiero
The customer-focused quality leader. (leadership factors necessary for customer-oriented quality policy)(includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJoan Bragar
The evolution of column gauges.Engineering and manufacturing industriesD. Wendell Alderman
The fine-tuned organization. (organizational efficiency and quality)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles Hammons, Gary A. Maddux
The law of producing quality. (employee and client satisfaction)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGeorge E. Wollner
The learn-use-train-facilitate system. (total quality management) (One Good Idea)Engineering and manufacturing industriesForrest Kessler, Gary L. Gaddy
The national educational quality initiative. (NEQI)(includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrank Caplan
The patience bank. (corporate investment of time and resources)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Dowd, Wade Meyercord
The phases of data analysis.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael J. Cleary, Craig M. Tickel
The presidential candidates talk quality. (quality-related issues) (Interview)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
The Quality Forum VIII.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
The quest for CMI certification. (certified mechanical inspector)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDeborah A. Rayman
These foolish things. (simple quality techniques)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid Hill
The Socratic method produces enlightened employees. (eliminating resistance to change) (One Good Idea) (Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDonald Ponge
The theory and practice of employee recognition.Engineering and manufacturing industriesBrooks Carder, James D. Clark
TI's information repository connects 63,000 employees. (Texas Instruments) (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Tolo hits lucky seven. (Tolo Inc.) (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
TQM: sustaining the momentum. (total quality management)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid W. Hutton
Trains, planes, and automobiles - and meetings. (meetings as means of achieving objectives) (One Good Idea)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles Cook
Up in the air about quality. (airline service quality)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTimothy J. Kloppenborg, Kent N. Gourdin
Using competitive benchmarking to set goals. (for quality improvement)(includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesH. Kevin Vaziri
Using computer simulation in quality control.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJulian Simon, Peter Bruce
Value through quality. (requisites of maintaining high quality standards)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam J. Hill
Waveform analyzers: making an educated choice. (includes related article)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCurt Quantz
What are good health care measurements? (Special Issue: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLorenz J. Finison
What do the words 'product' and 'service' really mean for management?Engineering and manufacturing industriesM.H. Schwartz
What is a total quality leader? (News)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
What is the Registrar Accreditation Board?Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn H. Stratton
Why do health care practitioners resist quality management? (Special Issues: Quality in Health Care)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul E. Morrison, Janelle Heineke
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