Baldrige Foundation Finds a Spot in Combined Federal CampaignFederal employees can now donate to the foundation
Wed, 09/30/2015 - 13:02
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- For the first time in its history, the Baldrige Foundation has been accepted in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). The CFC is the official workplace-giving campaign of the federal government. The mission of the CFC is… Excellence by the Dozen12 organizations move closer to the Baldrige Award
Thu, 09/17/2015 - 12:25
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Twelve high-performing organizations have been selected to receive site visits for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest recognition for organizational performance excellence. Winners of… What’s the Prognosis? NIST report details new method for breakdown-free production
Mon, 09/14/2015 - 16:19
In today’s increasingly complex manufacturing operations, Murphy’s Law is only an unexpected hiccup away—anything from a data error to an errant vibration to a dulled cutting tool can undermine production. In a future with fully effective sensing… NIST’s Method to Spot Quantum Dots Could Help Create Nanophotonic DevicesThe trick is in finding the dots
Wed, 09/09/2015 - 16:00
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Life may be as unpredictable as a box of chocolates, but ideally, you always know what you’re going to get from a quantum dot. A quantum dot should produce one, and only one, photon—the smallest constituent of light—each… Baldrige Tests Positive for Superior Patient ExperienceA systems approach to excellence ‘as the patient sees it’
Wed, 08/26/2015 - 10:01
A newly released study comparing 34 U.S. healthcare organizations that received the Baldrige National Quality Award with their 153 geographically closest competitors found that the Baldrige Award recipients matched or exceeded their competitors’… Baldrige Helps Health Care Organizations Provide Superior Patient ExperienceAward recipients match or exceed competitors’ measures of healthcare quality
Mon, 08/10/2015 - 10:24
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The newly released study, “Healthcare Performance Excellence: A Comparison of Baldrige Award Recipients and Competitors,” comparing 34 U.S. healthcare organizations that received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality… Nonprofit for Veterans Uses Baldrige FrameworkNew case study reveals innovative improvement strategies for governmental organizations
Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:32
(NIST: Gaithersberg, MD) -- Depicting how an innovative government organization might use the Baldrige Excellence Framework , the 2015 Baldrige Case Study: The Casey Comprehensive Care Center for Veterans represents a fictitious organization within… A Million Pounds of AccuracyRestoring the largest deadweight machine in the world
Wed, 07/29/2015 - 17:12
Restoration is well underway for NIST’s 4.45-million newton (equivalent to 1 million pounds-force) deadweight machine, the largest in the world. The three-story-tall deadweight, comprising a stack of stainless-steel discs weighing about 50,000… The Incredible Shrinking ESR MachineNew probe to offer a broad range of applications
Mon, 07/27/2015 - 16:27
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large machines down to a pinpoint-precision probe.
This electron spin resonance probe… Recruiting the Next Generation on Manufacturing DayAnchoring a small town, Detroit Tool & Engineering had a big problem
Tue, 07/21/2015 - 14:51
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Lebanon, Missouri’s population is a few hundred people more than 14,000. To put that number in perspective, 1,120,000 people ride the commuter train on the average New York weekday. In Lebanon, people welcome you with…
