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Vishay Precision Group
(Vishay Precision Group: Malvern, PA) -- Vishay Precision Group (VPG), a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of resistive foil technology products, announces the release of a current sensing resistor—the CSM3637P—with an improved power rating and low thermal electromotive force (EMF). The…
Egemin Automation
(Egemin: Holland, MI) -- Egemin Automation Inc., a leading manufacturer of automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) and warehouse management systems since 1976, has developed a hybrid Automated Guided Vehicle. Morphing manual and automatic operations onto a standard, off-the-shelf
forklift provides…
PTI Inspection Systems
(PTI: Tuckahoe, NY) -- Packaging Technologies and Inspection (PTI), a leading manufacturer of nondestructive, noninvasive inspection technologies for the pharmaceutical industry, will showcase the VeriPac Leak Detection Systems at Interpack, the international processes and packaging exposition…
Opto Diode Corp.
(Opto Diode: Newbury Park, CA) -- Opto Diode Corp., a subsidiary of ITW Photonics Group, and a global supplier of advanced performance photodiodes and highly reliable, visible and IR LEDs, now supplies custom light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for a variety of applications.
The company is one of the…
Precyse
(Precyse: Wayne, PA) -- Precyse, a leader in health information management (HIM) services and technologies, has launched precyseCode, an advanced and comprehensive HIM platform available today. PrecyseCode is driven by state-of-the-art technologies that understand and process human voice,…
LeCroy
(LeCroy: Chestnut Ridge, NY) -- LeCroy Corp. introduces a new line of 12-bit resolution WaveRunner oscilloscopes, the WaveRunner HRO 6 Zi. The WaveRunner HRO, a high-resolution oscilloscope, features an industry-leading, 12-bit analog-to-digital convertor (ADC), deep memory of 256 Mpts/ch, and…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. presents the Flexible Flaw Detection webinar, scheduled for May 5, 2011, at 2 p.m. EDT. The webinar will focus on technical topics that showcase the power of machine vision and how to solve inspection applications with advanced techniques and new tools. If you…
Chris Koehn
Air gauging relies on a law of physics that states flow and pressure are directly proportionate to clearance and react inversely to each other. As clearance increases, air flow also increases, and air pressure decreases proportionately. As clearance decreases, air flow also…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Donald J. Wheeler has been awarded the Deming Medal by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for “the propagation of Dr. Deming’s ideas throughout the world through his numerous books and seminars on quality management and statistical quality improvement.” Here he answers some questions for…
Mark R. Hamel
Every once in awhile people will ask me to (discretely) evaluate a kaizen event team’s effectiveness. I don’t necessarily relish doing that when it is intended for the purpose of team comparisons, but it’s not an unfair request from senior leaders.
Someday, I should probably try to pull the…
MIRTEC
(MIRTEC: Oxford, CT) -- MIRTEC, a global leader in inspection technology, is the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Global Customer Service Leadership Award for the surface mount technology (SMT) inspection equipment market. MIRTEC was selected based on its superior quality and timeliness…
Object Management Group OMG
(OMG: Needham, MA) -- The Business Ecology Initiative (BEI), a nonprofit, member-led organization committed to breaking down silos and promoting “business ecology” practices within and among organizations, announces the Business Ecology Webinar Series, which will begin May 6, 2011, at 11 a.m. EDT…
The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence
(The Shingo Prize: Logan, UT) -- At the Principles of Operational Excellence and Assessment workshop, scheduled for May 11–12 at the Boart Longyear plant in Salt Lake City, workshop participants will gain an understanding of The Shingo Model and the underlying principles behind The Shingo Prize…
Hamamatsu
(Hamamatsu: Hamamatsu City, Japan) -- The C10800 series of dual-energy X-ray cameras from Hamamatsu feature high resolution and a wide dynamic range. These line-scan cameras can be used for a variety of nondestructive testing applications where single-energy imaging fails to distinguish between…
CorDEX Instruments
(CorDEX: North York Shire, UK) -- CorDEX Instruments unveiled the CorDEX UT5000 tester, an intrinsically safe ultrasonic radio-frequency identification (RFID) handheld unit designed for testing and detecting corrosion in pipeline networks.
The UT5000 uses RFID technology to locate and log up to…
BSI
(BSI: Reston, VA) -- BSI Group America Inc., a leading provider of total solutions for certification and standards announces the launch of its Specialized Regulatory Training with courses targeted specifically for the medical device industry. Available on site, these specialized regulatory…
Siemens PLM Software
(Siemens: Plano, TX) -- In the post-recession economy, successful product development efforts will increasingly be shaped and driven by advanced IT tools like product life-cycle management (PLM) and collaborative software that will enable design stakeholders to share updates, reuse data, and…
Micro-Epsilon
(Micro-Epsilon: Ortenburg, Germany) -- Renowned for its eddy current sensors, Micro-Epsilon is now offering a completely new series of eddy current sensors.
The new eddyNCDT 3100 series includes a special, compact controller and corresponding new sensors. Sensors and cables are…
AIAG
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), a nonprofit, member-supported organization that works with a wide range of manufacturing companies and service providers to help them operate at peak performance, announces its Supplier and Product Reliability Assurance…
CMSC
(CMSC: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) has released the submission guidelines for its Academic Poster Presentation Session at the 2011 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), which is being held in Phoenix, July 25–29, 2011.
The intention of the Academic Poster…
Donald J. Wheeler
One-hundred-percent inspection is commonly used to avoid shipping nonconforming product. Each of the items produced is measured and judged to be either conforming or nonconforming. The conforming items get shipped, and the nonconforming items get set aside for use as factory-authorized replacement…
As robots and their control systems become more powerful and flexible, robotics are moving from heavy industrial applications into producing consumer products we all use in our daily lives. Fickle consumers demand products in new forms, which plays to the strength of robotics’ inherent…
Tripp Babbitt
My first job was in industrial distribution, and with distribution came learning to count inventory. An annual inventory tax was levied, so an accurate count was important. I was given a computer list of items to count. An important lesson I learned was that to get an accurate count, there was a…
CEESI
(CEESI: Nun, CO) -- CEESI invites participants to the annual 2011 Ultrasonic Meter User’s Workshop, to be held June 21–23, 2011, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sign up as well, for one or all five of the Flow Measurement Training Series, most of which will occur the week before the workshop. This…
Newport Corp.
(Newport Corp.: Irvine, CA) -- Newport Corp., a global leader in laser and photonic solutions that makes, manages, and measures light, has announced enhanced, calibrated Integrating Sphere Detectors. Ideal for measurement of output-light power of high-power light sources, the spheres optimize the…
