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Upgraded Web Site Helps Small Manufacturers Keep the Millennium Bug At Bay

October 21, 1998

National Y2K Action Week, Oct. 19-23, 1998 New resources, tools and references are among the features on the improved Manufacturing Extension Partnership web...

U.S. Commerce and Agriculture Departments Working To Help Small Manufacturers Address Y2K

October 19, 1998

National Y2K Action Week, Oct. 19-23, 1998 Efforts to help small manufacturers in rural America find and assess problems caused by the year 2000 computer...

Potential Microchip Insulator Shows Surprising Behavior When Tested In Ultra-Small Scale

August 24, 1998

Scientists analyzing polymers as possible insulators for advanced microchips were surprised to learn that the materials behave much differently when they are in...

New Method Will Help In Efforts To Find Better Insulators, Make Faster Microchips

August 23, 1998

Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have devised a new method and built a new instrument to aid in the search...

NIST Announces Candidates For New Data Scrambling Standard

August 20, 1998

Candidates for a new information scrambling code for the 21st century made their debut at an international cryptography conference today. The Commerce...

NIST Tool Will Help Small Manufacturers Exterminate 'Millennium Bug'

August 12, 1998

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s nationwide network of centers is offering a computer-based tool to help smaller manufacturers find and assess problems...

Advance Could Lead Eventually To Big Savings In Metal-Forming Industry

July 21, 1998

Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology are the first to succeed in using a new technique that shows precisely...

CEO Survey Finds 'Globalization' Among Top Challenges, U.S. Firms Doing Only Fair Job

July 2, 1998

While U.S. business executives believe that becoming a global company is an important trend, they also believe most U.S. companies are only doing a fair job at...

Thirty-Six U.S. Businesses Try For Nation's Top Award For Business Excellence

June 17, 1998

Thirty-six U.S. companies—up from 26 in 1997—including 15 large manufacturers, five service companies and 16 small businesses, have submitted applications for...

Daley Says NIST to Help Small Manufacturers Avoid 'Millennium Bug'

May 11, 1998

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership and its nationwide network of centers are stepping up efforts to help smaller manufacturers avoid being bitten by the...

Aves Thompson to Become NCWM Chairman at 83rd Annual Meeting

April 27, 1998

Aves D. Thompson, chief of operations in the Alaska Division of Measurement Standards and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, will be installed as chairman of the...

Sunder Named Chief of Structures Division

March 18, 1998

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the appointment of S. Shyam Sunder as chief of the Structures Division in...

NIST 98 Provides Largest Ever Expansion and Improvement Of Mass Spectral Database

February 17, 1998

Analytical chemists now can take advantage of improved accuracy and a 75 percent expansion of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's popular mass...

NIST Offers Short Course to Help Industry to Better Measure Temperature

February 17, 1998

Many industrial managers and engineers know that the accuracy of their temperature measurements has a big impact on the quality of their products or the...

Failure of Tiny Rivets May Have Sunk 'Unsinkable' Liner

February 17, 1998

When the remains of the RMS Titanic were discovered more than two miles beneath the surface of the North Atlantic in 1985, the story of the great liner once...

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Healthcare, Education Organizations

February 9, 1998

Criteria designed to help healthcare and education organizations improve their processes and overall performance are available now from the Commerce Department...

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Healthcare Provider Organizations

February 9, 1998

Criteria designed to help all healthcare organizations, such as managed care systems, hospitals and home healthcare agencies, improve their services, processes...

Popular Business Performance Excellence Guide Now Available For Education Organizations

February 9, 1998

Criteria designed to help education organizations improve their services and overall performance are available now from the Commerce Department’s National...

'Baldrige Index' Outperforms S&P 500 For Fourth Year

February 9, 1998

For the fourth year in a row, the fictitious "Baldrige Index" has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 by almost 3 to 1, says the Commerce Department’s...

Atomic Clock In Space to Reach New Heights Of Accuracy

January 20, 1998

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology soon will begin work on an advanced laser-cooled cesium atomic clock that will be placed on...

NIST To Evaluate Evaluators of Water Quality Testing

January 16, 1998

The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced draft guidelines to accredit commercial vendors to evaluate drinking and wastewater analysis...

Power Doubling For WWVB Could Help Keep You On Time In 1998

January 5, 1998

For everyone who made a New Year's resolution to be more on time for meetings and events in 1998, there's good news from the Commerce Department's National...

President Clinton Today Presents 1997 Baldrige Award to Four U.S. Companies

December 19, 1997

President Clinton and Commerce Secretary William Daley today presented the 1997 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award to four American companies in...

NIST Urges U.S. Companies to Use Baldrige Quality Award Process as Improvement Tool

December 18, 1997

American companies can improve the way they do business by applying for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, says the Commerce Department's National...

Pioneering Research In X-ray and Neutron Examination of Polymer Films Earns Stratton Award For Wu

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has presented the Samuel Wesley Stratton Award to Wen-Li Wu of the agency’s Materials Science and Engineering...

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