Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
For more than 18 years, we've been talking about Six Sigma.
Now we want to hear from you!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SPSWG8Z
To help motivate you, we're offering several prizes to randomly selected survey participants. The prizes include...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
As several people know, the highlight of the Antwerp Quality in the Spotlight conference is not the Westgard Award, but the "Limerick Challenge" of the evening dinner.
In 2016, there was a scandalous episode of nepotism, which resulted in the winning team containing not only myself ("a" Westgard) but also Jochem Goldschmidt ("a" Goldschmidt, son of the conference organizer). Thus, we received lifetime bans from participating in future Limerick contests. And founds ourselves running the Limerick as Quiz Masters this year.
Since the overall theme of the conference this year was "next generation" - that, too, became the theme of the Limerick contest.
Here myself and Jochem on the right are presenting the prize (a bottle of champagne, to be consumed that evening)
After the jump... the winners and the winning limerick
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
I was looking over a recent study of a compact blood gas analyzer conducted over multiple sites, multiple cartridges, multiple days, etc. In other words, this was a study that was doing a very thorough job.
Then I reached a section where suddenly it all fell to nonsense: measurement uncertainty.
So they calculated measurement uncertainty, but then they compared the results against Ricos desirable imprecision performance specifications.
Huh?
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
In Biochemia Medica, a recent article detailed the Minimum requirements for the estimation of measurement uncertainty:Recommendations of the joint Working group for uncertainty of measurement of the CSMBLM and CCMB.
Can you guess how many?
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