(API: Rockville, MD/Stuttgart, Germany) -- Automated Precision Inc. has unveiled a revolutionary advancement in laser tracker technology—the world’s first completely wireless, controller-free laser tracker: the Omnitrac 2.

Built on the frame of the API’s Radian tracker, the Omnitrac 2 offers an auto-lock camera and an onboard level sensor and can recapture a lost beam. It operates using absolute distance measurement technology; the Radian augments that with an interferometer.

(Manufacturing.com: Hoboken, NJ) --  Frank Russo, CEO and co-founder of Fabricating.com, providers of sourcing solution for U.S. buyers seeking U.S. suppliers, will speak at the “Business Roundtable: Learn to be Better” event hosted by the New Jersey Tooling and Manufacturing Association (NJTMA), May 14, 2013, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Snuffy’s in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

Karen Martin’s The Outstanding Organization (McGraw-Hill, 2012) is a 2013 winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award.

(ASQ: Milwaukee, WI) -- ASQ, a leading authority on quality in all fields and industries, has joined the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC), a public-private partnership developing prototypes and training for next-generation manufacturing technology platforms.

(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf Software has launched Verisurf University, a new training service for customers, educators, and students seeking to improve their knowledge of Verisurf software, coordinate metrology, and their practical application in a manufacturing environment.

According to the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA), training the next-generation workforce is the biggest problem facing its members. At the same time, training the existing workforce—growing their skills and keeping them current on new technology—remains a pressing need.

(D. L. Newslow and Associates, Inc: Orlando, FL) -- Going to the Food Safety Supply Chain Conference in Chicago? This workshop is geared towards anyone wanting to learn more about FSMA, including, but not limited to: Food Safety Managers, Top Management, Supervisors, Quality Managers and Food Safety/HACCP Team Leaders.

Be sure to register to attend our Hazard Analysis Risk-Based Preventive Controls (HARPC) Workshop - A Practical Approach to Meeting the Requirements.

(Quality Digest: Chico, CA) -- Innovation professionals now have a resource and organization whose vision is to prepare professionals and companies to use innovation science and methodologies to address global challenges. Quality Digest contributor H. James Harrington has been actively involved in forming the new nonprofit professional society called the International Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP).

(CMSC: San Diego, CA) --The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, has announced the launch of the industry’s first Level-One Certification for Portable 3D Metrology. The first examinations will be held at the 29th annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), July 22–26, 2013, in San Diego.

(Quality Digest: Chico, CA) -- Quality Digest syndicated columnist Robert Wilson's books are on their way to libraries in need as part of the effort to restock facilities destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. The Annoying Ghost Kid has been shipped after being vetted by Indie Authors for Hurricane Sandy Libraries, a group established in November 2012 by author K. S. Brooks.