Much in the news for its heroic efforts at quality control: Mattel (24, MAT) .
The technology just might make schools better at quality control -- knowing which instructional techniques work and when.
Officials from the FAA and the Japanese transport ministry on Monday began checking the quality control at Kanto Aircraft Instrument Co.
While investigators found several issues in quality control at the company, they did not uncover any serious problems that can be linked to recent incidents involving Dreamliners, Yasuo Ishii, director of air worthiness standards at the Japanese transport ministry, said Tuesday.
So he's taken a job at a manufacturing plant in quality control.
The need for tighter scrutiny is evident in claims reported by the New York Times about quality control issues at Westborough, Mass.
The company says it can't find enough experienced workers to fill those jobs, so it taps recent chemistry graduates who have university lab training but little or no experience at a professional lab, where quality control and consistency are critical.
Lisa Goldstein, the head of health care bond ratings at Moody's, argues that better quality control can improve hospitals' financial performance.
Schering-Plough (SGP, 39) stock is down 35% from its 12-month high amid bad publicity over quality-control slip-ups at its factories, which lopped 5% from first-half earnings.
Mr Howell said the service was now looking at how to improve its control rooms "to provide the best technology, maintain the quality of service and deliver this at an affordable price".
There would be such an onslaught of material without the quality control provided by other people, at the very least a publisher.
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There does not appear to be another issue with the machine at present, so it was probably a single quality-control problem.
"As far as real-world applications at this point, it would be more of a quality-control device, " said researcher Christopher Musto, who presented the device this week to the national convention of the American Chemical Society.
Quality control, such as it is, is exercised at the bigger venues.
Two other former officials charged in the case - Akio Hanawa, 63, and Tadashi Koshikawa, 61 - also held positions at the time of the accident, with Mr Koshikawa in charge of quality control.
Their quality control over their hardware and outside development keeps their products operating at a high level.
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It also allows for better quality control, said Michael Hoey, director of North East Sales at Penguin Computing.
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