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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Ecublens, Switzerland) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., has introduced new analytical packages designed to enhance industry-specific routine X-ray analysis. The packages are based on the successful Thermo Scientific ARL OPTIM’X WDXRF spectrometer, enabling the…
Fluke Corp.
(Fluke Corp.: Everett, WA) -- Fluke Corp., a global provider of portable electronic test and measurement technology, has introduced the industry’s first digital multimeter with a detachable wireless display. Designed by Fluke engineers and manufactured at the Fluke worldwide headquarters in…
SRNL
(SRNL: Aiken, S.C.) -- Several industries use wireless sensors, which can monitor chemical processes or equipment activity and then transmit the data over a wireless network. Still, many facilities that could benefit from the use of wireless sensors must continue to use a wired network instead…
Gagemaker LP
(Gagemaker: Houston) -- Gagemaker L.P. has released its new thread engineering software for American Petroleum Institute (API) tapered threads, TDWIN TAPER.
TDWIN TAPER provides critical dimensions and drawings for down-hole tubular connectors based on the most current industry standards.…
Resistance to the National Animal Identification Scheme (NAIS) has been strong. This six-year-old USDA policy initiative to reduce the catastrophic effects to the livestock and meat industry from a major animal disease outbreak has received so much negative reaction from so many and now seems…
Davis Balestracci
Remember my previous article on the quality pyramid where the very top element emphasizes the concept of “process?” One of the most powerful points to get across in any quality improvement effort is that your current processes are perfectly designed to get the results they are already getting.…
Patrick Beauchemin
Recent advances in machine vision technologies and motion control present tremendous opportunities for automated optical inspection (AOI) systems. Thanks to recent developments in these fundamental building block technologies, today’s AOI systems can carry out inspections with a higher…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- Come to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ (SME) Aerospace Measurement, Inspection & Analysis Conference, Sept. 29—Oct. 1, in Baltimore, at the Baltimore Convention Center.
This three-day event, to be held alongside the Aero & Defense Test 2009, will…
Carl Zeiss Microscopy
(Carl Zeiss IMT: Maple Grove, MN) -- Carl Zeiss IMT Corp. opens new West Coast Tech Center in Irvine, California.
“We are dedicated to supporting the high-tech industry on the West Coast, by providing customers easy access to our most modern and advanced technology,” says Andy Sisler, vice…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
In much the same way the Works Progress Administration of the Great Depression put millions of Americans back to work, there is great hope that green jobs will do the same during these current tougher-than-ever economic times.
What’s more, CareerBuilder.com recently named green jobs as one of…
ANSYS Inc.
(ANSYS: Southpointe, PA) -- ANSYS Inc., a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, announces that software from ANSYS is helping transform the relentless forces of waves into electricity. Green Ocean Energy Ltd, a U.K.-based…
Bodelin Technologies
(Bodelin Technologies: Lake Oswego, OR) -- Bodelin Technologies, manufacturer of the ProScope HR (1.3 megapixel imager), the world’s first hand-held USB microscope, has begun shipping their new higher resolution ProScope HR2 (2 megapixel imager).
The new ProScope HR2 features the new state-…
ASTM International
(ASTM: West Conshohocken, PA) -- In a 2008 annual report, the Bahrain Directorate for Standards and Metrology (BSMD) outlines the success of the memorandum of understanding (MOU), an ASTM International outreach program, which was signed with ASTM International in 2008.
As the national…
Brunson
(Brunson: Kansas City, MO) -- Every day, laser tracker operators risk their accuracy by using their SMR (spherically mounted retroreflector) targets with worn and damaged target holders (nests). Over the course of time, wear and tear on a target nest takes its toll, and undetected error creeps…
Chris Hardee
As moviegoers, we have all seen a wide range of animation—from early Disney features, such as “Snow White,” to Japanese anime, and Pixar’s “Toy Story,” to an assortment of recent blockbusters that seamlessly integrate animation with real actors. With each release, the movie magic gets more amazing…
Donald J. Wheeler
Following my article on Leptokurtophobics (Do You Have Leptokurtophobia?) it was almost inevitable that we should hear from one. We were fortunate to have someone as articulate as Forrest Breyfogle III to write the response. However, rather than offering a critique of the points raised in my…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- The latest edition of ISO 9001, the world’s most widely used quality management standard, is included on a newly launched CD collection of the generic standards in the ISO 9000 family from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
The ISO standards collection,…
Fluke Corp.
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n process manufacturing, temperature uniformity is essential. Technicians rely on monitoring of all kinds, from fixed mount sensors to hand-held thermal imagers to track the condition of product and critical equipment. That’s because temperature measurement and control is one of the single…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) announced the availability of a new resource for its members that will facilitate enhanced U.S. engagement on standards and conformance in China. The resource was developed jointly with the US-China Business Council (USCBC), the…
PPT VISION Inc.
(PPT Vision: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION Inc. announces the newest addition to the company’s popular series of IMPACT smart cameras, the Right-Angle T-Series intelligent camera. This camera is paired with PPT Vision’s full IMPACT software suite, which solves challenging industrial vision…
Ultriva
(Ultriva: Cupertino, CA) -- Ultriva Inc., the lean leader with an electronic kanban focus, went live in 36 plants last year and is on target to double in 2009.
“Ultriva’s core message of ‘free up the capital tied in the inventory’ resonated very well with our target market. Our ability to…
CSA Standards
(CSA Standards: Ontario, Canada) -- CSA Standards, a leading standards-based solutions organization, and The Climate Registry, the leading North American greenhouse gas (GHG) registry, recently announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that more closely aligns the two organizations in their…
Lonnie Wilson
Five things to lean my company? In two days? That's pretty quick. Why so quickly?
I can think of two reasons. First, people expect things to be done better and faster each day; and it appears we’re getting decent at doing just that. Lean has made huge strides toward contributing to that “…
FARO
Rocky Mountain Hydro Electric Plant is a pumped storage facility located in the Appalachian mountains of Northwest Georgia, approximately 62 miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee. The facility is co-owned by Oglethorpe Power Corporation (75%) and Georgia Power (25%), with all operations and…
Laurel Thoennes @ QD
While other authors have written about Toyota’s manufacturing principles and the company’s approach to efficiency, Mike Rother is the first to devote six years of study to Toyota’s actual management behavior—revealing the essential kata—in his book, Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement,…
