Quality Progress 1998 - Abstracts

Quality Progress 1998
TitleSubjectAuthors
ACSI report says customer satisfaction still falls short. (American Customer Satisfaction Index)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Adding a bit of fun to a quality program. (GTE Network Services)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMarian K. Bassett
Advanced quality planning: a guide for any organization. (QS-9000 Quality Systems Requirements manual by the Big Three automakers)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLaurence C. Thisse
A new slant on fishbones. (use of fishbone diagram as a quality control tool)(One Good Idea)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJonathan Lore
An ounce of prevention.(use of ISO 9000 standards in problem solving)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDave Wessel
A personal quality improvement program for golfers.Engineering and manufacturing industriesErnest W. Karlin, Ernie Hanewinckel
Applying continuous improvement to community health. (American Society for Quality and Institute for Healthcare Improvement's traffic safety program)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMarian L. Knapp
A practical approach to service-supplier certification. (includes related article on a case study involving a service supplier)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn O. Brown
Are ISO/QS-9000 certifications worth the time and money?Engineering and manufacturing industriesPraveen Gupta, Dan Pongetti
Are you listening? (importance of listening)Engineering and manufacturing industriesElizabeth J. Rice
Are you listening to your customers?(One Good Idea)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEdmund S. Fine
Are your surveys only suitable for wrapping fish?(consumer surveys)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKen Miller
A survey of the cost of nonquality to a nation's economy: The Israeli experience.Engineering and manufacturing industriesEitan Naveh, Avigdor Zonnenshain, Avner Halevy
At the crossroads of computing and quality.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames W. Cortada
Avoiding a conference train wreck.Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlan L. Wilgus
Beyond vision: creating and analyzing your organization's quality future.Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam Alexander, Richard Serfass
Butting heads in the workplace. (managing confrontations)(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJo Hawkins Donovan
Considerations for global supplier quality.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames Bossert
Continuous process improvement the Quick Step way. (process improvement)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBernard J. Schroer, Mel Adams, Steve Stewart, Paul J. Componation
Creating more effective meeting facilitators.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMary Buchel
Customer satisfaction: turning temporary scores into permanent relationships.Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam Thomas
Developing a TQM implementation model. (total quality management)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMiriam Erez, Eitan Naveh, Avigdor Zonnenshain
Distance learning in a cyber classroom.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDon Benbow
Do the right things right.(quality assurance using ISO 9000 standards)Engineering and manufacturing industriesHilary M. Wilson
Enhancing intravenous services: a CQI approach. (continuous quality improvement)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCynthia A. Goodrich, Kimberly S. Woodley, Ellen M. Morrison, Eleanor H. Garrett
Farewell fusillade: an unvarnished opinion on the state of the quality profession.Engineering and manufacturing industriesBert Gunter
Gauge manufacturers are always right. (importance of evaluating instrument calibration standards)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEdmund S. Fine
Getting better business results: using statistical thinking and methods to shape the bottom line.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald D. Snee
Getting suppliers in on the quality act. (customer-supplier relationships)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPradip V. Mehta, Joan M. Scheffler
Go with the flow: stress and the quality professional.(stress analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn R. Dew
Guidelines for TQ partnerships between industry and universities. (total quality)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard Cobb, Michael B. Marker, Johnny W. Mulkey Jr.
Highway safety programs and the need for quality-based methods.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPatricia F. Waller, Susan S. Gallagher, Forrest M. Council
How technology enhances the quality of student-centered learning.Engineering and manufacturing industriesLaura L. Cook, Jack S. Cook
How to boost accountability on corrective actoins: the quality alert form.Engineering and manufacturing industriesGeorge Weir
How to fine-tune your business processes.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael Epelman, Derek Brimley, Dan Maher, Daniel O'Brien
How to use FMEA to reduce the size of your quality toolbox.(failure mode effects analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilly W. Vandenbrande
Improving community health through collaboration.Engineering and manufacturing industriesCatherine F. Kinney
Improving team effectiveness.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald D. Snee, Kevin H. Kelleher, J. Gordon Myers, Sue Reynard
Incorporating the tools of creativity into quality management.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaul E. Plsek
Insights into organizational self-assessments.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark L. Blazey
Intelligence everywhere: How technology can enlighten and empower. (includes an article of software engineer certification)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTaz Daughtrey
Investing in the future: high-tech solutions for quality improvement.Engineering and manufacturing industriesKevin R. Chandler
Is the world ready for knowledge management?Engineering and manufacturing industriesAmy Zuckerman, Hal Buell
It takes more than sparkling water. (BHC Co products and services)(Company Profile)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLisa Oswald, Alexandra Lang
Juran Foundation moves to University of Minnesota.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn J. Oslund
Lawyers find a partner in quality. (includes related articles)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNancy Blodgett
Lessons from team leaders.(practical exercises to improve leadership)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJane E. Henry
Lessons learned from Alexander the Great. (includes speculations on the corporate roles and responsibilities of Alexander)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTimothy Van Mieghem
Logarithmic power: Fuel economy measurement is enlightening.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard F. Gunst
Madison conference stresses systems thinking, chaos and complexity theories, constants in times of change. (1998 Hunter Conference)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMarch Laree Jacques
Making multirater feedback systems work.Engineering and manufacturing industriesAllan H. Church, Janine Waclawski
Mason E. Wescott: 1902-1998.(Obituary)Engineering and manufacturing industriesLeigh Ann Klaus
NCR's quality turnaround: How one company's improvement effort paid off.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark Bernstein, Kathy Staffaroni
Outsourcing: Opportunity or burden?Engineering and manufacturing industriesYule S. Peterson
Paddling like crazy.(Career Corner)(career development)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGreg Hutchins
Preventive vs. corrective action: the horse, the barn door, and the apple.Engineering and manufacturing industriesC. Michael Taylor
Product assurance structure and management.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Bieda
Quality at work.(Career Corner)(Column)Engineering and manufacturing industriesGreg Hutchins
Quality in the age of communication.Engineering and manufacturing industriesChristopher J. Cremer
Quality management in South America.Engineering and manufacturing industriesAlexis P. Goncalves
Quality Progress' 1998 salary survey.(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKaren Bemowski
Quality Progress' 8th Quality in Education Listing.(Cover Story)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSusan E. Daniels, Dare Miller
Qualtiy Progress' 11th annual QA/QC services directory. (quality control)(Directory)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Select leaders using a quality management process. (nominal group techniques)(includes related article on a poker analogy for management selection)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJoseph Williams, Rick L. Edgeman
Six sigma: a breakthrough strategy for profitability.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMikel J. Harry
Six sigma and the future of the quality profession. (quality control initiative at Scott Paper Co.) (includes articles about the fundamental elements of the initiative and the results of implementation)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRoger W. Hoerl
State supervision and inspection of product quality in China.(China's state supervision and inspection of product quality body)Engineering and manufacturing industriesZhihai Zhang
Statistics for dummies: how to make SPC fun and (somewhat) easy. (statistical process control)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJeff Lackey
Taking the myth out of documenting work instructions.(ISO 9000 standards)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTerry Dunford
Team empowerment: a simple and easy solution.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMary Ann Smialek
Technology and performance improvement: intellectual partners?Engineering and manufacturing industriesPaula Brown
Telecom industry forum working toward TL 9000, on ISO 9000-based standard.(International Standards Organization; standards)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSandford Liebesman, Eugene Hutchinson
The 2 + 2 enhancement process. (effort to establish a quality assurance curricula at higher education institutions in Ohio)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn W. Sinn, George MacRitchie
The barriers to total quality management.Engineering and manufacturing industriesNabil Tamimi, Rose Sebastianelli
The best-practice company and other benchmarking myths.Engineering and manufacturing industriesEdith A. Wiarda, Daniel D. Luria
The Box-Jenkins bounded manual adjustment chart: a graphical tool designed for use on the production floor.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJ. Stuart Hunter
The control chart dilemma. (choosing statistical process control charts)Engineering and manufacturing industriesStephen Wise, Douglas Fair
The impact of contracting on quality transformation in R&D.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDebra L. Griest, Y.H. Andrew Liou
The importance of concepts in creativity and improvement.Engineering and manufacturing industriesLloyd P. Provost, Gerald J. Langley
The red bead experiment for educators. (quality control experiment)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRon Turner
The stops and starts of total quality management. (Techneglas Inc's TQM program)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam A. Hines
The ups and downs of customer-driven quality.Engineering and manufacturing industriesS. Thomas Jr. Foster
The virtual factory approach to quality education.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn A. Keane
Tree-based procedures.(Tree-Based Classification and Regression, part 3)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBert Gunter
Using ISO 9000 to go beyond industry norms.(use of International Standards Organization standards in airline industry)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames P. O'Neil
U.S. Standards Group seeks comment on committee drafts of ISO revisions.(Standards)(International Organization for Standardization 9000 series)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
What does your customer really want? (approaches to customer satisfaction)(includes related article on determining customer loyalty)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJoan O. Fredericks, James M. Salter II
What higher education should be teaching about quality - but is not.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJoseph A. Petrick, Paula M. Saunders, Larry B. Weinstein
Work design for self-control in financial services.Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrank M. Gryna, Britt M. Shirley
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