Quality Progress 1999 - Abstracts

Quality Progress 1999
TitleSubjectAuthors
Aftermath of battle: using new applications in clearing unexploded ordnance.(includes glossary and sidebar article detailing cleanup work on Kaho'olawe Island)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDan Kedzie, Norrell Lantzer, Robert Wernsman, Ellen Sieber, Thomas Bond
Age of agile manufacturing puts quality to the test: mass customization of products demands new tools, measures.(includes sidebar articles profiling Hatfield Quality Meats and Kraft Foods)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPeter H. Christian, Emory W. Zimmers Jr.
A metamorphosis in South Carolina: Red Cross region is first to earn ISO 9002 registration.Engineering and manufacturing industriesSusan E. Daniels
An alternative view of education quality: students aren't the customers of instruction.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJoel A. Nachlas
An integrated approach to food safety.(linking Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point and ISO 9000)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam L. Bennet, Leonard L. Steed
An unexpected competitive edge: SDI Aerospace implements ISO 9001.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDouglas W. Anton
Applying QFD to internal service system design.(quality function deployment)Engineering and manufacturing industriesR. Nat Natarajan, Ralph E. Martz, Kyosuke Kurosaka
Applying quality concepts to community issues: Tacoma-Deming project avoids politics as usual while focusing on a process for improvement.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMarch Laree Jacques
A recipe for well-done procedures: Seven steps that help reduce time, costs and confusion.Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteven Stein
A road map for quality beyond control.(includes sidebar article detailing approaches to management at W.L. Gore & Associates)(Quality in 21st Century)Engineering and manufacturing industriesThomas Pyzdek
ASQ's Accelerating Change Collaborative Series: a challenge for industry.(American Society for Quality)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKevin Nolan
Attitude adjustments: some proven ways to promote the exchange of ideas.Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteve Kaye
Avoiding calibration overkill: Ratio requirements need to be re-examined.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPhilip Stein
Back to the future: 'Foresight 2020' offers scenarios for quality's next 20 years.Engineering and manufacturing industriesGregory H. Watson
Baldrige Award winners beat the S&P 500.Engineering and manufacturing industriesLawrence S. Tai, Zbigniew H. Przasnyski
Brazil and ISO 9000.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMarcos Antonio Lima de Oliveria
Burn the brownies: effective experimental design through statistical thinking.Engineering and manufacturing industriesLynne B. Hare
Can single sourcing work in R&D?: benefiting from a long-term relationship with one supplier.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRobert Osmond, Garry D. Coleman
Comparing the importance of variation and mean of a distribution.Engineering and manufacturing industriesGary Elrod, Belva J. Cooley, LeRoy A. Franklin
Connecting quality improvement practices to reaccreditation.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn Jasinski
Customer-value analysis helps hone strategy.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMichael J. Stahl, Robert B. Woodruff, William C. Parr, William K. Barnes, Sarah F. Gardial
Don't count TQM out.(total quality management)Engineering and manufacturing industriesKevin B. Hendricks, Vinod R. Singhal
Explosion of new products creates challenges: age of innovation requires new tools of quality.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMiles Maguire, Mark Hagen
Getting employee buy-in to quality management.Engineering and manufacturing industriesStephen B. Knouse, H. David Strutton
Going on-line, not airline: Internet can replace traditional conferences.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJim Clauson
How a team can grow.(self-directed work teams)Engineering and manufacturing industriesD. Keith Denton
Implementing the six sigma solution: how to achieve quantum leaps in quality and competitiveness.(includes sidebar article detailing experiences of inefficient baggage handling)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJerome A. Blakeslee Jr.
Improving customer satisfaction through mass customization.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRebecca Duray, Glenn W. Milligan
Internal auditing: the big lies.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDeWitt L. Beeler
Is ISO 9001:2000 the beginning of the end?Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames Lamprecht
ISO 14000 and the bottom line: Environmental standard can lead to sustainable competitive advantage.Engineering and manufacturing industriesCecily A. Raiborn, Brenda E. Joyner, James W. Logan
ISO 9000: 2000: A shift in focus.(part two of two)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCharles A. Cianfrani, Jack West, Joseph Tsiakals
ISO 9000:2000 shifts focus of quality management system standards.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJoseph J. Tsiakals, Charles A. Cianfrani, Jack West
ISO 9001 and health care.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames W. Kolka
Making the pitch in the executive suite: how quality got to the top with six Baldrige Award winners.(includes excerpts from 'Principles of Quality Costs: Principles, Implementation and Use' and from 'Linking Quality to Profits: Quality-Based Cost Management')Engineering and manufacturing industriesMark R. Hagen, Susan E. Daniels
Measurements and the knowledge revolution: Getting the right information to the right people at the right time.Engineering and manufacturing industriesThomas A. Pearson
Measuring people and performance: closing the gaps.Engineering and manufacturing industriesBrian S. Morgan, William A. Schiemann
Measuring performance after meeting award criteria.Engineering and manufacturing industriesTimothy M. Bergquist, Kenneth D. Ramsing
Measuring up in a Cincinnati suburb: how one school system used the Baldrige Award criteria to improve.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid F. Quattrone
More, better, faster from total quality effort: P&G achieves a breakthrough in clinical study cycle times.(Procter & Gamble)Engineering and manufacturing industriesDavid A. McCamey, Robert W. Boggs, Linda M. Bayuk
Motivating knowledge workers: the role of the workplace.(includes sidebar article detailing leadership community initiative at Steelcase Inc)Engineering and manufacturing industriesPamela M. Brenner
National laboratories of metrology in the western hemisphere.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRocio Marban, Oscar R. Harasic
New quality for the 21st century: developments are the fundamental drivers of business.(includes sidebar article detailing five forces driving quality opportunity)Engineering and manufacturing industriesA.V. Feigenbaum, Donald S. Feigenbaum
New uncertainty method is taking hold: Refinements to traditional approach.Engineering and manufacturing industriesPhilip Stein
Old tools - new uses: equipment FMEA.(failure mode effects analysis)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTeodor Cotnareanu
On leaders and leadership: business excellence models, core value deployment and lessons from the Bible.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRick L. Edgeman, Jens J. Dahlgaard, Su Mi Park Dahlgaard, Franz Scherer
On-line quality courses offer many side benefits.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJim Clauson
Product certification and Portugal's construction industry.Engineering and manufacturing industriesAntonio Tadeu, Pedro Saraiva, Joao Orey, M. Joao Rosa
Profiting from quality in the service arena: using cost-of-quality applications in nonmanufacturing organizations.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Putting quality in knowledge management.Engineering and manufacturing industriesLarry Todd Wilson, Diane Asay
QS-9000 customer satisfaction monitoring isn't working.Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam Robert Loomis
Quality and nonprofit organizations: focus on service delivery means doing good things well.Engineering and manufacturing industriesSamuel S. Ireland
Quality in banking starts with four assessments: methods can inspire upper management action in most organizations.Engineering and manufacturing industriesFrank M. Gryna, Derek S. Gryna
Quality in commercial food processing.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn G. Surak
Quality in nonprofits: no longer uncharted territory.(implementation of total quality management at Anixter Center)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRenee Oosterhoff Cox
Quality management and continuous improvement at Campbell.(Campbell Soup Co)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNorman P. Ouellette
Quality profession must learn to heed its own advice.(Quality in 21st Century)Engineering and manufacturing industriesThomas Pyzdek
'Quality Progress'' 1999 salary survey.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMiles Maguire, Karen Bemowski
Quality system harmonization for clinical laboratories.Engineering and manufacturing industriesWilliam I. White
Quality today: recognizing the critical SHIFT.(excerpt from 'Critical SHIFT: The Future of Quality in Organizational Performance')Engineering and manufacturing industriesLori L. Silverman, Annabeth L. Probst
Quality you can bank on: a Texas blood center discovers the benefits of ISO certification.Engineering and manufacturing industriesNorman D. Kalmin, Linda Myers, Mary Beth Fisk
Service organizations increasingly adopt Baldrige model.Engineering and manufacturing industriesNancy Blodgett
Small-business evaluation and support services: a model from the United Kingdom.Engineering and manufacturing industriesBarrie G. Dale, Bryn Watts
Small service firms face implementation challenges.Engineering and manufacturing industriesYunus Kathawala, Dean S. Elmuti
Statistical process control: a glimpse at its past and future.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJ. Stuart Hunter
Team technology: finding the right mix to improve team performance during process-improvement tasks.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMaria E. Hacker
The art of creating a standard.(Committee Draft 2 of ISO 9000:2000, part 3)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJoseph J. Tsiakals, Charles A. Cianfrani, Jack West, Jeffrey H. Hooper
The call of quality: Doing right things right: But growing complexity, competition create new pressures.Engineering and manufacturing industriesMarch Laree Jacques
The case for student as customer.(Southern Polytechnic State University)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJim B. Wallace
The conflict resolution diagram: creating win-win situations.Engineering and manufacturing industriesH. William Dettmer
The critical role of quality in the tourism system.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRichard F. Marecki, Joseph M. La Lopa
The impact of standards on industrial development and trade.Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteven R. Wilson
The pros and cons of sector-specific standards.Engineering and manufacturing industriesLeslie Norris
The search for quality.(benefits of ISO 9002 registration)Engineering and manufacturing industriesFred A. Kaempffe, Fred A. III Kaempffe
The standards development process: user input is key to acceptance.Engineering and manufacturing industriesDennis R. Arter
The use and management of teams: a how-to guide.Engineering and manufacturing industriesSteven H. Hanks, Richard L. Ratliff, Stephen M. Beckstead
TL 9000 performance metrics to drive improvement: telecommunication industry takes a new approach to sector standards.Engineering and manufacturing industriesD. Galen Aycock, Jean-Normand Drouin, Thomas F. Yohe
TL 9000 quality system requirements rooted in ISO 9001.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames P. Gildersleeve
To be a problem solver, be a Classicist.Engineering and manufacturing industriesAbdul M. Chaudhry
Total quality management in higher education: an application of quality improvement in a university.(Lamar University, Beaumont, TX)Engineering and manufacturing industriesCarl B. Montano, Glenn H. Utter
Total quality requires serious training.Engineering and manufacturing industriesZbigniew H. Przasnyski, Bohdan W. Oppenheim
Transforming government for its customers: innovative public management, not just technology, is key at state and local level.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJohn R. Miller
Two-location gauge evaluation: a simple method for solving testing problems.Engineering and manufacturing industriesNeal D. Morchower
University, Inc.: to regain competitiveness, higher education must adopt industrial techniques.Engineering and manufacturing industriesStanislav Karapetrovic, Divakar Rajamani, Walter W. Willborn
Use common law techniques to foster internal audits.Engineering and manufacturing industriesGordon MacMaster
Using DOE to determine AA battery life: remote-control model-car enthusiasts conduct an experiment.(design-of-experiments)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEric Wasiloff, Curtis Hargitt
When culture resists change: getting your employees aligned with your strategy.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJames F. Huggett
When teams go to war - against each other!(managing team-to-team conflict)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRaymond Cheser
Why should statisticians pay attention to six sigma?Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald D. Snee
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