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Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. announces the availability of its new white-light measurement products in North America. The manual measurement system, Cognitens WLS400M, and the automated measurement system, Cognitens WLS400A, replace all former white-light…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. announces the availability of its new white-light measurement products in North America. The manual measurement system, Cognitens WLS400M, and the automated measurement system, Cognitens WLS400A, replace all former white-light…
Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL
(LANL: Los Alamos, NM) -- Researchers have revealed a new single-stage method for recharging the hydrogen storage compound ammonia borane. The breakthrough makes hydrogen a more attractive fuel for vehicles and other transportation modes.
In the March 18 edition of Science magazine, Los Alamos…
The Guideline Advantage
(The Guideline Advantage: Dallas) -- Three major health organizations—the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, and American Heart Association/American Stroke Association—have collaborated to create a quality improvement program aimed at improving outpatient care nationwide.…
The Guideline Advantage
(The Guideline Advantage: Dallas) -- Three major health organizations—the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, and American Heart Association/American Stroke Association—have collaborated to create a quality improvement program aimed at improving outpatient care nationwide.…
University of Michigan
(University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI) -- People with a strong moral identity are measurably inspired to do good after being exposed to media stories about uncommon acts of human goodness, says a researcher at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
A new study by Brent McFerran,…
Sepha Ltd
(Sepha Ltd: Dundonald, Belfast) -- Global packaging machinery expert, Sepha Ltd, has developed the world’s first tool-less, vision-based leak-detection machine for blister packs. VisionScan has been developed to meet pharmaceutical blister-pack manufacturers’ growing demand for a low-cost, modern,…
Sepha Ltd
(Sepha Ltd: Dundonald, Belfast) -- Global packaging machinery expert, Sepha Ltd, has developed the world’s first tool-less, vision-based leak-detection machine for blister packs. VisionScan has been developed to meet pharmaceutical blister-pack manufacturers’ growing demand for a low-cost, modern,…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Yoshio Kondo, Ph.D., a quality management leader who stressed the interrelationship between quality and people, died April 1, 2011, at the age of 87.
According to professor Samuel Ho and Christopher Fung, Ph.D., authors of the TQM Excellence Model, Kondo emphasised the interrelationship between…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Yoshio Kondo, Ph.D., a quality management leader who stressed the interrelationship between quality and people, died April 1, 2011, at the age of 87.
According to professor Samuel Ho and Christopher Fung, Ph.D., authors of the TQM Excellence Model, Kondo emphasised the interrelationship between…
Spectronics Corp.
(Spectronics: Westbury, New York) -- Spectronics Corp. has introduced the revolutionary Spectroline AccuMAX XRP-3000 digital radiometer and photometer, the new benchmark in light measurement technology. The XRP-3000 uses a dual-wavelength sensor detector to measure both
ultraviolet and visible…
Spectronics Corp.
(Spectronics: Westbury, New York) -- Spectronics Corp. has introduced the revolutionary Spectroline AccuMAX XRP-3000 digital radiometer and photometer, the new benchmark in light measurement technology. The XRP-3000 uses a dual-wavelength sensor detector to measure both
ultraviolet and visible…
Pilgrim Quality Solutions
(Pilgrim Software Inc: Tampa, FL) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, announces that Tampa, Florida-based Pilgrim Software has joined the company’s Informatics Global Partner Alliance. Pilgrim Software will provide integrated risk, compliance, and quality…
Pilgrim Quality Solutions
(Pilgrim Software Inc: Tampa, FL) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, announces that Tampa, Florida-based Pilgrim Software has joined the company’s Informatics Global Partner Alliance. Pilgrim Software will provide integrated risk, compliance, and quality…
Minitab LLC
(Minitab Inc: State College, PA) -- Statistics can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. That’s why Minitab, a leading provider of software for quality improvement, is offering a free webinar, “The Assistant: Your Guide to Data Analysis.”
The hour-long webinar will be held April 5, 2011, at…
Minitab LLC
(Minitab Inc: State College, PA) -- Statistics can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. That’s why Minitab, a leading provider of software for quality improvement, is offering a free webinar, “The Assistant: Your Guide to Data Analysis.”
The hour-long webinar will be held April 5, 2011, at…
Verisurf Software Inc.
(Verisurf: Anaheim CA) -- Verisurf Software Inc. is set to unveil new manufacturing automation solutions that increase assembly productivity of major airframe components, such as rudder and wing assemblies, from globally dispersed suppliers.
Live demonstrations will take place April 5–7, 2011,…
Verisurf Software Inc.
(Verisurf: Anaheim CA) -- Verisurf Software Inc. is set to unveil new manufacturing automation solutions that increase assembly productivity of major airframe components, such as rudder and wing assemblies, from globally dispersed suppliers.
Live demonstrations will take place April 5–7, 2011,…
FDAnews
(FDANews: Falls Church, VA) -- The federal government has just updated and compiled the new nine-volume Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) set for 2011 with all the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules for drugs, devices, and biologics updated through April 1, 2011.
The new nine…
FDAnews
(FDANews: Falls Church, VA) -- The federal government has just updated and compiled the new nine-volume Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) set for 2011 with all the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules for drugs, devices, and biologics updated through April 1, 2011.
The new nine…
Birgit Albrecht
Dutch company HGG specializes in steel profile cutting. It manufactures bevel-cutting machines particularly suited for processing large components. EEW, a German manufacturer of wind turbine components, placed an order with HGG. It needed to manufacture foundation structures (also…
Birgit Albrecht
Globally, wind power generation has increased more than fivefold since 2000. With the global trend toward limiting CO2 emissions and numerous governmental programs subsidizing or financing wind power generation, its share of global power generation is set to experience substantial growth in the…
Danita Johnson Hughes Ph.D.
Read this. It won’t be a waste of time.
Time gets lost. People kill time. Time flies. It gets wasted. Time weighs heavy on our hands. We spend time. Time passes. It drags on or it hurries by. Those behind bars are said to be doing time. Sometimes, we have no time left; we’re out of time.…
Tracker Handbook by Art Kietlinski
As a senior applications engineer, one of my tasks is to train customers to correctly operate a laser tracker. This month, I would like to share with you some common in-field experiences and issues that I encounter with those who use a laser tracker on a day-to-day basis.
With more than 20 years…
Donald J. Wheeler
Measurement error is generally considered to be a bad thing, and yet there is very little written about how measurement error affects the way we use our measurements.
This column will consider these effects for four different uses of data. But first we need to describe how to characterize…
