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Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc.
(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc. (KMSA), a global leader in the industrial measurement of color, light, and shape, has announced the availability of version 2.10 of SpectraMagic NX Color Quality Control Software.
SpectraMagic NX is designed for the easy…
Joseph A. DeFeo
In the U.S. health care system, quality and safety have developed into strategically important issues. Progress is being made at the local level, even if it is slow and doesn’t get much of the public’s attention. Health care improvement has certainly come a long way since the early 1990s, when an…
NIST
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a tunable superconducting circuit on a chip that can place a single microwave photon (a particle of light) in two frequencies, or colors, at the same time.
This curious “superposition,” a hallmark of the quantum…
National Physical Laboratory
(National Physical Laboratory: Teddington, UK) -- The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) occupies a unique position as the United Kingdom’s National Measurement Institute and sits at the intersection between scientific discovery and real world application. In addition to conducting cutting-edge…
Johns Hopkins University
Twitter allows millions of social media fans to comment in 140 characters or less on just about anything: an actor’s outlandish behavior, an earthquake’s tragic toll or the great taste of a grilled cheese sandwich.
But by sifting through this busy flood of banter, is it possible to also track…
IPETRONIK
(IPETRONIK: Livonia, MI) -- IPETRONIK, an industry leader in the design, development, and manufacture of mobile measurement technologies for the global automotive market, has announced the introduction of the Sx-STG, the newest member of the IPETRONIK Sx product family.
The Sx-STG is a compact…
Akhilesh Gulati
Wanting to be known for his hospitality in the neighborhood, a restaurant owner advertised take-out Thanksgiving turkey dinners, ready to go. With the holiday coming up, Joe planned to have friends over for dinner and decided to take advantage of the offer. When he called in his order, he was…
John Flaig
Story update 7/08/2011: We corrected an error in Figure 2, and in the section preceded by "Expressed symbolically for a stable process...".
Two topics that have generated significant interest and frequent comments are, “Is normality required for control charts?” and “You need to estimate the tail…
DNV
(DNV: Seattle) -- DNV announces that it has obtained accreditation by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) for power quality testing on wind turbines. The DNV Seattle office, which obtained the accreditation, now provides power quality testing services to global…
NeoMetrix Technologies Inc.
(NeoMetrix: Lake Mary, FL) -- NeoMetrix Technologies Inc., experts in 3-D scanning, reverse engineering, first-article inspection, and rapid prototyping services, has developed some new techniques to take advantage of laser-based 3-D measurement equipment from Konica-Minolta and Creaform.
Konica-…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), coordinator of the U.S. standardization system, has released a workshop report summarizing the range of perspectives voiced at the May 12, 2011, ANSI workshop Standards Wars: Myth or Reality? in Washington, D.C.
The workshop brought together more…
Visual Workplace Inc.
(Visual Workplace: Byron Center, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc. introduces SHADOW-Mark, a quick and easy method to designate specific locations for each item in the workplace. Users simply trace the tool or other item on the SHADOW-Mark material, cut the shape out and peel off the backing, and place…
Kistler
(Kistler: Novi, MI) -- Kistler, a global supplier of precision sensors, systems, and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque, and acceleration, has announced North American updates to its Type 2893A KiBox To Go system.
The Kistler Type 2893A KiBox To Go is a…
Newport Corp.
(Newport Corp.: Irvine, CA) -- Newport Corp., a global leader in lasers and photonics solutions that make, manage, and measure light, has released The Newport Resource, a catalog for photonics research products and related applications. The new catalog encompasses products from all Newport…
Daniel Brown
Traditionally, 3-D dimensional inspection was performed in the quiet, stable, spotless, and controlled environment of quality labs. But during the past few decades, manufacturers have been increasingly interested in measuring devices that are both comprehensive in scope and portable. Nowadays,…
Michael Feuer
If you’ve ever watched NBC’s The Office, you know the show makes hilarious use of business-world stereotypes. Granted, the personalities, quirks, and antics of the employees of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. are taken to extremes, but we find them funny largely because they’re true. We know…
Michael Causey
Well, this is getting interesting. For the past several months, we’ve had relatively partisan folks on each side of the medical device industry vs. the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) debate saying either the 510(k) premarket notification process wasn’t doing so badly (the FDA), or that it was…
Carl Zeiss Microscopy
(Carl Zeiss: Jena, Germany) -- Carl Zeiss, a global leader of high-tech companies in the optical and opto-electronic industry, and Digital Surf, a developer of topography software and supplier of metrology components, have signed an agreement enabling Carl Zeiss to provide ConfoMap software.…
Oriel STAT A MATRIX
(STAT A MATRIX: Edison, NJ) -- STAT A MATRIX Institute, a nonprofit educational organization that provides training to industry on quality-related topics, has released its Summer/Fall 2011 training catalog. The institute is a sister organization of the global consulting firm Oriel STATAMATRIX.…
Taylor Hobson
(Taylor Hobson: Leicester, UK) -- Congratulations to Rony Moreno, the winner of Taylor Hobson’s world record competition. Using a Surtronic roundness instrument, Moreno completed the measurement of five precision bearings, in tolerance and including loading and setup, in a staggering 77.77…
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc.
(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc. (KMSA), a global leader in the industrial measurement of color, light, and shape, has launched its newest benchtop spectrophotometers, the CM-3600A and the CM-3610A.
The CM-3600A spectrophotometer is a versatile instrument…
Thomson Reuters
(Thomson Reuters: New York) -- Techstreet, a Thomson Reuters business, has signed agreements with a range of construction and safety standards publishers to distribute standards, manuals, and codes online. The online availability of these standards promotes industry compliance, safety, and public…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: Washington) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) has reopened a public comment period seeking input on regulatory cooperation activities between the United States and the European Union. The comment period is now open through Aug. 8, 2011.
The…
Frost and Sullivan
Since 2009, there has been a recovery in the white-light scanner market, and the manufacturing industry and metrology vendors acknowledge this. However, research indicates that there is still uncertainty among end-user spending.
White-light scanner end-users are increasingly becoming aware and…
GKS Global Services
A Minnesota-based manufacturer of high-quality ATV, snowmobile, and motorcycle parts and accessories had a design and development problem with a snow blade that created a lot of time-consuming rework. Thanks to 3-D scanning from GKS Global Services, the problem was recently solved.
The…
