October 2007 Edition
Inside This Newsletter

 1) Competing Ideas: Different Approach, Different Result
 2) One-Off: Be Prepared
 3) Quality Gaging Tips: Scribing For New Heights
 4) Gratefulness: Remember
 5) Training Schedule



 
Link to our article archive       Link to our 2005 training calendar

"
In this month’s column I compare the results of two companies that set out to improve workplace organization. Although the two companies began in a similar manner, their efforts followed distinctly different paths and yielded very different results.

Forward Co., Inc. began its organization effort with 5S technique training (sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain) for workplace organization and standardization..."

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Competing Ideas: Different Approach, Different Result


    "
In July 2005, I completed a story that encouraged shops to develop a disaster recovery plan so they’d be prepared in the case a catastrophic event befalls them. The article was published in our September issue. That September issue was received by our readers mere days after Hurricane Katrina punched the Gulf Coast hard in the gut.
     'When Disaster Strikes' was written in the hope that machine shops would take the time to prepare for a natural disaster so they’d have a fighting chance to bounce back if one were to occur. When I received that September issue, I immediately wished the article had appeared a month earlier. But because it appeared so very soon after Katrina, perhaps it served to reinforce the importance of Boy-Scout-like preparedness. I certainly hope so..."

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One-Off: Be Prepared

 
Character Quote of the Month


"The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

-  James Truslow Adams



"The need for long-range height measurements has been around since the principles of layout work became a fundamental requirement in machine shops.

The first step in the manufacturing process is to lay out a piece by transferring a design or pattern to a workpiece. This is performed in almost all small shops, large manufacturing plants and even by some home hobbyists. The process may be used to begin a prototype piece or an emergency replacement part. The common tools for layout work include a surface plate, a surface gage with scriber or dial indicator and a long-range height gage..."

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Quality Gaging Tips: Scribing For New Heights



Why have articles on character?

Gratefulness Has a Long Memory

       
"Andrew Carnegie’s first job was in a cotton factory, earning $1.20 a week.  His work at the age of 12 helped his parents put bread on the table.  The Carnegies had immigrated to Pennsylvania from Scotland, where Andrew’s father was a successful weaver before steam-powered mills took over the fabric market.  The Carnegie family decided to move to America and make a fresh start.  At fifteen, Andrew left the cotton mill and worked as a messenger boy in a Pittsburgh telegraph office.  He was grateful for his new job, but he especially looked forward to Saturday afternoons..." 

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Gratefulness: Remember

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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it.
I want to have lived the width of it as well."

 
 - Diane Ackerman


Training Schedule
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PUBLIC TRAINING SCHEDULE
Exact locations and directions will be given prior to course date...
 

Course – click title for locations and dates

# Days

Cost

TECHNICAL WORKSHOPS

 

 

Print Reading for Industry

2

$795.00

Print Reading Series – Self Directed Learning Option

 

$195.00 

GD&T – Management Overview

1

$425.00

GD&T – Fundamentals

3

$1,150.00

GD&T – Advanced Concepts

3

$1,150.00

GD&T for CMM Operators

3

$1,150.00

GD&T – Self Directed Learning Option

 

$195.00

GD&T – How to Inspect GD&T Specifications

2

$795.00

GD&T – Functional Gage Design

2

$795.00

GD&T – Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis

3

$1,150.00

GD&T – Application and Interpretation

3

$1,150.00

GD&T – Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional

3

$1,150.00

Basic Dimensional Measurement Tools and Methods

2

$795.00

Precision Dimensional Measurement - ONLINE Training

 

$179.00

 Basic Dimensional Measurement Series – Self Directed Learning Option

 

 $225.00

 Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) Training

varies

 $975.00

 Introduction to CMM's – Self Directed Learning Option

 

 $145.00

 Measurement Uncertainty Overview

1

 $425.00

 Measurement Uncertainty Budgets

2

 $795.00

 Measurement Uncertainty Analysis - Online Training

 

 $179.00

 Gage Calibration Methods & Hands-On Workshop

2

 $875.00

 Introduction to Measurement and Calibration - Online Training

 

 $179.00

 Fundamentals of Minitab

2

 $795.00

 Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB) Review

3

 $1,150.00

 Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) Review

5

 $1,495.00

 Certified Quality Inspector (CQI) Review

3

 $1,150.00

 Certified Quality Technician (CQT) Review

3

 $1,150.00

 Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) Review

4

 $1,150.00

 Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) Review

5

 $1,495.00

 Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE) Review

4

 $1,295.00

 

 Certified Calibration Technician (CCT) Review

3

 $1,150.00

 Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) Review

4

 $1,295.00

 Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

2

 $795.00

Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) with Control and Action Plans

1

$425.00

Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA)

1

$425.00

Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Basic Workshop

2

$795.00

Statistical Process Control (SPC) Masters Series – Self Directed Learning Option

 

$195.00

Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Advanced Workshop

2

$795.00

Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)

2

$795.00

Design of Experiments (DOE)

2

$795.00

Design of Experiments (DOE) – Self Directed Learning Option

 

$225.00

Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

1

$425.00

Internal Quality Auditor – Self Directed Learning Option

 

$145.00

Process Driven Comprehensive Auditing

2

$795.00

ISO 9001:2000 Certified Lead Auditor

5

$1,695.00

ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditor

2

$795.00

ISO 9001:2000 Certified Internal Auditor

3

$1,095.00

ISO 14001 EMS Certified Lead Auditor

5

$1,695.00

ISO 9001:2000 Certified Lead Auditor for the Automotive Sector (ISO/TS 16949:2002)

5

$1,795.00

ISO 9001:2000 Certified Internal Auditor for the Automotive Sector (ISO/TS 16949:2002)

3

$1,095.00

ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditor for the Automotive Sector (ISO/TS 16949:2002)

2

$795.00

 

ISO 9001:2000 Certified Lead Auditor with Medical Device Focus (ISO 13485:2003)

5

$1,795.00

AS 9100B:2004 Certified Lead Auditor with Aerospace Focus

5

$1,795.00

OHSAS 18001 Lead Auditor

5

$1,695.00

ISO 9001:2000 Overview

1

$425.00

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Sincerely,

Dan Medford - President
QC Inspection Services, Inc.
11975 Portland Ave. Suite 102
Burnsville, MN 55337
800-959-0632
952-895-1150
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