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FDA
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) international program has logged nearly 75,000 hits to its web pages on the new food safety law, as foreign companies that export food to the United States scramble to learn how the law affects them.
“A lot of our foreign offices are being deluged with…
Donald J. Wheeler
All charts for count-based data are charts for individual values. Regardless of whether we are working with a count or a rate, we obtain one value per time period and want to plot a point every time we get a value. This is why four specialty charts for count-based data had been developed before…
American Association of Advanced Metrology
Manufacturing and metrology leaders have announced a new certification body establishing performance standards for service providers and equipment manufacturers in the rapidly expanding digital metrology industry.
The American Association of Advanced Metrology (AAAM) “encourages and…
Ryan E. Day
Now I don’t mean to brag, but I make a mean filet mignon... usually. The preparation always involves a good soaking in my secret marinade recipe (McCormick’s and red wine) then grilling on the BBQ turned up to its “ludicrous” setting. So why the occasional extra char in the char-broil?
Two…
HBM nCode
(HBM nCode: Southfield, MI) -- nCode, the leading brand of durability, test, and analysis products offered by HBM, will be releasing new solutions for thermo-mechanical fatigue calculations in the next release of nCode DesignLife version 8. It will enable a wide range of high-temperature…
AlixPartners
(AlixPartners: Detroit) -- Most large manufacturers last year failed to reach their cost-savings targets, despite significant investments in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other productivity programs as part of their overall retrenchment efforts in this tepid economy. Nearly 70 percent of…
FARO
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., a leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, has developed improvements to its laser scanner, the Focus3D. Complete with new features that enhance registration and remote functionality, this newest Focus3D represents FARO’s…
McGraw-Hill
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- The case studies throughout the book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management (McGraw-Hill, 2011), illustrate successful performance improvement implementations that show how the combination of lean, Six…
American Management Association AMA
(AMA: New York) -- When you procrastinate, you affect both your career and your personal life. The webinar, “Procrastination to Productivity: 6 Ways to Get Started, Get More Done and Have More Energy,” provided by the American Management Association (AMA) gives you step-by-step tools you can use…
Dimensional Control Systems DCS
(DCS: Troy, MI) -- Dimensional Control Systems Inc. (DCS), a provider of dimensional engineering software and consulting services, has announced that vice president Donald Jasurda will address aerospace engineers and manufacturers at the SAE 2011 AeroTech Congress and Exhibition. The event will…
Kimberly Egan
Last May, the director of the vegetable research institute at the Qingdao Academy of Agricultural Science in Qingdao, China, told the media that the Chinese government does not encourage farmers to use plant hormones on watermelons because watermelons “are very sensitive.”
The Chinese have learned…
DEKRA
The results are in: Investments in energy management are a win‐win‐win situation for investors, stakeholders, and the environment. The main objective of an industrial organization is to be profitable by the sale of goods or services. But leading companies are now realizing significant cost‐cutting…
Bill Kalmar
Back in the Dark Ages when I was growing up, people traveling by plane considered it a privilege and a social event. As such, airline travelers dressed accordingly. Men wore suits and perhaps a tie, while ladies wore dresses. Even children adopted society’s norms back then and wore outfits…
Third Wave Systems
(Third Wave Systems: Minneapolis) -- During last week’s EMO 2011, the international trade fair for the machine tool industry held in Hannover, Germany, Third Wave Systems introduced current customers and members of the international press to its newest machining modeling capabilities: part…
NIMS
(NIMS: Fairfax, VA) -- Last year at the 2010 Manufacturing Summit, sponsored by the Swiss Business Hub and the National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor Jane Oates gave the attendees a three-part homework assignment dealing with the support and…
McGraw-Hill
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- Six Sigma for Sustainability: How Organizations Design and Deploy Winning Environmental Programs (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011), is a new hardcover book by Thomas McCarty, Michael Jordan, and Daniel Probst, three Jones Lang LaSalle executives and experts in quality…
NVision Inc.
(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- NVision Inc., a leader in 3-D noncontact optical scanning for more than 21 years, recently provided an orthodontic company with the information it needed to recalibrate its CT scanner. The company, an orthodontic supplier, used NVision’s Engineering Service Division…
Nikon Instruments Inc.
(Nikon Instruments: Melville, NY) -- Putting the power in the hands of the people for the fifth year running, Nikon Instruments Inc. announced today that its 2011 Small World Photomicrography Competition Popular Vote is open. Visitors to Nikon’s site will have until 5 p.m. EDT on Mon., Oct. 31,…
AAMI
(AAMI: Arlington, VA) -- The challenges in managing medical devices on wireless and wired IT networks are the focus of a special Horizons magazine just released by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). The latest in a series of special-topic issues, this one…
Cognex Corp.
In the not-so-distant past, manufacturers using laser scanners and conventional area-scan image-based readers had to put up with inherent technology limitations. Laser scanners, for example, have a hard time reading bar codes through plastic shrink-wrap, bar codes printed on flexible material…
Ford Motor Co.
(Ford: Dearborn, MI) -- Ford Motor Co. is putting design in the hands of enthusiasts with a new customizer website that features the 2012 Mustang. The automaker launched the site to let Mustang enthusiasts take advantage of the classic design with limitless possibilities.
“This site enables…
Taylor Hobson
(Taylor Hobson: Leicester, UK) -- The Ultra Precision Benchtop 3D Optical Profiler from Taylor Hobson brings high-performance optical measurements within the reach of both precision manufacturing and research companies.
The Talysurf CCI Lite is an advanced type of measurement interferometer (…
FODIS
(FODIS: Lustdorf, Switzerland) -- FODIS, a leader in the market for high-speed panoramic camera equipment, presents FODIS Measure 3D with new features, a combination of a fast, high-resolution, 360° panorama camera with innovative software packages. The FODIS Measure 3D allows direct 3-D…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Few industrial sectors have such stringent quality requirements as the pharmaceutical industry. To meet these exacting specifications, companies are increasingly utilizing intelligent vision systems.
For more than 30 years, EISAI Machinery GmbH, located in Cologne,…
Michelle LaBrosse
When a wedding invitation comes in the mail, my gut instinct is to leave it in the mailbox and have the mailman take it away to someone else who might actually want to attend. This is my thought for about two seconds, before logic sets in and I realize that wedding guests are not so replaceable…
