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Continental Quality Engineering Announces
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Continental Quality Engineering was formed on March 1, 2004 with one part number and one customer. Today, CQE sorts, inspects and/or reworks 135 part numbers from 25 customers at their facility in Anderson, Indiana or at plant sites in Indiana and Mexico. CQE released the following World Class Quality Metrics:
CQE has experienced quality engineers with the capacity to provide quality engineering support for the analysis and rapid resolution of the underlying cause for non-conforming parts. Simply put: we can get our customers out of containment faster, and that saves time and money. Call Continental Quality Engineering Services at (800) 875-4557 to discuss your quality engineering needs, or click here for more information. Great Inventions of the 20th Century
Can you imagine your life without television? Although it plays a very great part in modern life, many people are unaware of the interesting story behind the invention of the television and how it evolved into what we have today.
A fully electronic system was first demonstrated in 1927 by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. A Mormon farm boy from Idaho, Farnsworth came up with the idea for his system at age 14. He told it to his high school chemistry teacher, who could think of no reason why it would not work (Farnsworth later said this teacher gave him some key insights into the invention). He continued to pursue the idea as he grew older and went off to college. At age 21, he demonstrated the first working electronic system at his own laboratory in San Francisco. His breakthrough freed television from reliance on mechanical parts and made it possible to achieve new picture clarity and size. All modern picture tube televisions come directly from his original design. However, flat panel displays that don't use cathode ray tubes are gaining in popularity. These include plasma displays, which work by creating a plasma discharge that excites phosphors between two panels of glass, and active-matrix liquid crystal displays, which use polarizing sheets, liquid crystal cells, and a matrix of thin-film transistors.
Anyone would agree that television has certainly come a long way from its humble beginnings! |
Meet Elizabeth Troy, Director of Technical Services
Elizabeth's background makes her uniquely suited for her current position. She grew up in Farmland, Indiana. Her family provided temporary accommodations for missionaries from all over the world when she was a child, which exposed her to a lot of different people from different backgrounds. In this way, Elizabeth developed a world view despite living in a small town. She studied business, accounting, and archaeology at the University of Texas. Elizabeth also has a wealth of professional experience to draw from. Among other things, she has personally owned a rehab and construction business and, more recently, a recruiting and consulting company. The experience she gained through these endeavors taught her how to actively listen to the needs of customers and effective methods of discovery, research, and persuasion. "I really enjoy the challenges of my job," says Elizabeth, "and I am confident that I can help our customers find exactly what they are looking for!" This Week's Wacky Patent Many people remember the so-called "Monster Cereals" popular in the 70's and 80's; Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Yummy Mummy, etc. Lisa Randice of New Jersey must have eaten one too many boxes of Count Chocula to come up with this week's wacky patent. Rather than create a new Monster Cereal, she invented a Cereal Monster!
The individual pieces of cereal are bonded together with an edible substance that dissolves in milk. It's a good bet that the marketing people for the movie Swamp Thing would have loved to get their hands on this invention. . . . |
1925- Television
The word television is a comes from tele-, Greek for "far", and -vision, from Latin visio, meaning "vision" or 
Television usage didn't really take off until after World War II. Many families now were making a comfortable living and there were many war-related technological advances that dramatically improved picture quality and brought prices down. Before the war, an average TV receiver cost the equivalent of $7000; and of course, the resolution was poor and there was little available programming. Compare that with today, when a mere $2000 will get you a plasma high-definition widescreen TV. To top it all off, you can choose from over 300 available cable channels.
