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4D Technology Receives NASA’s Excellence Award
Wed, 05/10/2006 - 22:00
4D Technology Corp. recently received NASA’s Goddard Achievement in Excellence Award for its contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope project. The company partnered with NASA to develop an electronic speckle pattern interferometer (… Davis Inotek Will Buy GE Instrumentation Services
Wed, 05/10/2006 - 22:00
Davis Inotek Instruments has signed a final purchase agreement with GE Consumer & Industrial to buy its instrumentation services unit, a calibration and repair operation based in Duluth, Georgia. The unit serves more than 1,000… Australian Measurement Institute Announces Seminar
Wed, 05/10/2006 - 22:00
People having trouble with uncertainty estimation can gain a clearer understanding of the approach from a forthcoming series of courses on uncertainty measurement and estimation hosted by the National Measurement Institute, a division of… Mahr Acquires German Metrology Company
Wed, 05/10/2006 - 22:00
The Mahr Group recently acquired Helios Messtechnik GmbH & Co., a German provider of noncontact and contact shaft measurement, and precision gages. The acquisition creates a new corporation, Mahr Helios Messtechnik GmbH & Co. KG,… Bede X-ray Metrology Launches New Inspection Capability
Wed, 05/10/2006 - 22:00
Bede X-ray Metrology recently launched its wafer edge defect inspection capability that uses the company’s BedeScan defect-inspection system. The tool is capable of looking at process-induced defects on the surface of the wafer. It can also… ANSI Will Host a Forum for Standards Developers
Tue, 05/09/2006 - 22:00
The American National Standards Institute will host an upcoming forum for standards developers in New York City. Open Forum for Standards Developers will be held June 20–21 and will continue a dialogue initiated in March, when consortia… ISO Releases a Standard for Genetically Modified Food
Tue, 05/09/2006 - 22:00
A new standard provides guidance for identifying and quantifying genetically modified materials in foods. ISO 24276, "Foodstuffs—Methods of analysis for the detection of genetically modified organisms and derived products—General… ITU Forms a Focus Group for Internet TV Standards
Tue, 05/09/2006 - 22:00
The International Telecommunications Union has formed a focus group to lead standardization efforts for Internet television.Internet Protocol Television is a system by which digital television content is delivered via a broadband connection… National Quality Institute Announces a New Certification Program
Mon, 05/08/2006 - 22:00
Canada’s National Quality Institute recently launched a new certification program. The Leadership Excellence Program Certified Excellence Professional Program will offer certification to quality professionals who have worked in a quality or… European Foundation for Quality Management Collaborates on a New Book
Mon, 05/08/2006 - 22:00
A recently released book is the product of the European Foundation for Quality Management’s comprehensive studies of work and European businesses.Above the Clouds (initiated and edited by Hervé Legenvre, Josephine Woolley and Lorraine…