Real-time charting means no waiting for process feedback

Reader survey

Quality Quiz: With a video!

Data in everyday life

Six Sigma and more

Bytes and pieces

FYI: Current releases

Visit our Quality Blog and follow us on Twitter.

If you received this newsletter from a friend and want your own subscription to Quality eLine, click below.

Welcome to Quality eLine, a monthly newsletter from PQ Systems, developers of software products and training services that help customers demonstrate proof of their quality performance. This newsletter gives you industry news, case studies, and information about product enhancements and tips to enhance your software use.

FEATURE STORY:
Real-time charting means no waiting
for process feedback

Instant messaging, global e-mail access, nearly universal cell phone coverage, 24-hour news programming: we have become accustomed to immediate access to the information we want in nearly every aspect of our lives—including process improvement data analysis.
>> Read more

Reader survey:
How real-time is your charting?

As the feature story suggests, real-time charting has become a critical part of the manufacturing process. How quickly is your data reaching you? Take this quick survey, and see results from last month's poll.
>> Take the poll

Quality Quiz:
Another quiz from Professor Cleary—
and last month's winners!

Winners of last month's quiz and a copy of Quality Gamebox are Kenneth Clemmons (Delnor-Community Hospital); Brian Cunningham (Warrnambool Cheese & Butter); Tara Glasgow (Erie St. Clair CCAC); Adrian Huxley (Singer Instruments Co. Ltd.); and Ken Ulbrich (Bay State Milling). Congratulations! For this month's quiz, and a chance to win a copy of Quality Gamebox, submit your response by August 26 to be entered in the drawing.
>> Take the quiz

Data in everyday life:
Employment for art-related professions

August 7-13 marks Artist Appreciation Week in the U.S. This CHARTrunner chart reflects employment projection data for art-related professions. Send us a data source with your suggestion, and we'll show you how a CHARTrunner chart can clarify information.
>> See chart

Six Sigma and more:
Still managing by the numbers in Atlanta and elsewhere

David Schwinn is back, and sees that things haven’t changed, at least in many organizations that set standards with rewards—where cheating is a predictable outcome.
>> Read more

Bytes and pieces:

• Quality challenges for automakers: J.D. Power and Associates has released its 2011 Initial Quality Study results for automakers.

• Preventing nuclear accidents using technology: This article addresses prevention of the design and control errors that contributed to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
  

• Improving systems, improving children’s health: National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality leader speaks out about systems improvement.

• Auto industry in focus: Here's a book you may enjoy from the feisty former GM executive, pointing out what happens when financial leaders replace "car guys" in the auto industry. 
  
  

Current versions of software:

To determine the most recent version of your PQ Systems software products (SQCpack, GAGEpack, and CHARTrunner), call us at: (800) 777-5060. A customer care specialist will be pleased to help you. If there are later, more up-to-date versions, we will be able to get you up to speed immediately. You can also go to our website to check version updates at:
>> http://www.pqsystems.com/support/SoftwareUpdates.php