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Sixty-Five U.S. Health Care, Education Groups Send in Applications for Baldrige Quality Award Pilots

May 30, 1995

Forty-six health care and 19 education organizations have submitted applications as part of pilot programs to determine whether the Malcolm Baldrige National...

NIST Issues Criteria for Baldrige Quality Award Pilot Programs in Education and Health Care

February 3, 1995

Criteria designed to help education and health care organizations improve their services were announced today by the Commerce Department s National Institute of...

Quality Management Proves To Be a Sound Investment, Says NIST

February 3, 1995

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology said today that investing in quality management can result in an impressive payoff....

Quality Management Proves to be a Sound Investment, Says NIST

February 3, 1995

The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology said today that investing in quality management can result in an impressive payoff...

NIST to Support Environmental Assistance to Smaller Manufacturers

January 17, 1995

Deputy Commerce Secretary David J. Barram today announced a Department of Commerce program aimed at helping the nation's 370,000 small and medium-size...

Vice President Gore and Commerce Secretary Brown Present 1994 Baldrige Quality Award to Three U.S. Companies

December 5, 1994

Vice President Al Gore and Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today presented three U.S. companies the 1994 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation...

Commerce Department and Massachusetts Launch New System for Delivering Technology Services to Commonwealth Businesses

November 4, 1994

The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts today officially dedicated the Massachusetts Manufacturing Partnership (MMP), an...

Commerce Department Announces 15 Federal Grants For State Technology Projects

October 31, 1994

The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced 15 awards under the State Technology Extension Program component of the department's Manufacturing Extension...

Baldrige Quality Criteria for 1995 Streamlined; More in Line with Today's Business Thinking

October 20, 1994

The criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award have been streamlined and changed for 1995 to focus more sharply on quality as an integral part of...

Three Companies Win 1994 Baldrige Quality Award

October 18, 1994

President Clinton announced today AT&T; Consumer Communications Services (Basking Ridge, N.J.), GTE Directories Corp. (Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas) and Wainwright...

Brown, Daley Sign Agreement to Launch New Center for Delivering Manufacturing Services to Chicago Businesses

July 22, 1994

U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley today signed a letter of partnership to officially dedicate the Chicago Manufacturing...

Brown, Cuomo Launch Expanded Technology Services For N.Y. Businesses

June 17, 1994

U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown and New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo today officially launched the New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership, an...

Expansion of Manufacturing Extension Center to Benefit NYC Small and Medium-Size Businesses

June 16, 1994

U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today toured a New York City machine tool company to highlight a manufacturing outreach program that is expanding to...

Quality Experts from Business, Health Care and Education Needed for 1995 Baldrige Quality Award Board of Examiners

June 2, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking quality experts from all sectors of American business, as well as from non-profit health care and...

71 Companies in the Running for 1994 Baldrige Quality Award

April 18, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced today that 71 companies have applied for the 1994 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. They...

NIST Names ASQC as Partner in Administering Baldrige Quality Award

March 31, 1994

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the American Society for Quality Control as its contractor to help administer the Malcolm...

Federal Funds Available for State Technology Programs from NIST

March 17, 1994

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced funding is available for state projects to plan, coordinate and, in...

Defense Conversion Funds Make Iowa Manufacturing Technology Center A Reality

February 16, 1994

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown and Congressman Neal Smith (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and...

President Clinton Presents National Quality Award To Eastman Chemical, Ames Rubber

December 14, 1993

President Clinton today presented the nation's top award for excellence in quality management—the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award—to two U.S. companies...

NIST Manufacturing Centers Will Host Resident SBA Experts in Expanded Coop Program

October 18, 1993

Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown and U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Erskine Bowles announced today an agreement to establish Small Business...

Federal Program Helps Inventors Get 'Green' Ideas to Market

July 27, 1993

California inventor Norman Fawley had a great idea for a new technology. Fawley believed that adding resin-impregnated glass filaments to aluminum could...

NIST associate wins a 2019 Galvanize Boulder Lab Venture Challenge

Zach Newman, NIST post-doctoral associate, won a 2019 Galvanize Boulder Lab Venture Challenge award for his project, “Octave Photonic for A Tantala Photonic...

Technology Transfer Activity as a “Concierge Service” to the Scientific and Engineering Community

Commercialization Academy Director for Venture Partners of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Ms. Sally Hatcher, who is my colleague and fellow Technology...

U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office Celebrate MFG Day 2020

Manufacturing Day (MFG Day)—organized nationally by The Manufacturing Institute—is manufacturing’s biggest annual opportunity to inspire the next generation...

$3M from NIST for Equipment to Support Advancements in Biopharma Manufacturing

The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) along with the University of Delaware are pleased to announce $3M in...

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