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(New River Kinematics: Williamsburg, VA) -- New River Kinematics (NRK), a global provider of advanced portable metrology software, has announced the release of Power3 Suite, a comprehensive bundle of software applications providing industry-leading metrology, inspection, surfacing, and reverse-…
Rapidform Inc.
(INUS Technology: Seoul) -- INUS Technology Inc. has launched InvisHands, a new tool that automates the process of creating complete CAD models from 3-D scan data. InvisHands offers a new option to anyone in need of accurate reverse engineered models of physical parts. The service allows users of…
Verisurf Software Inc.
(Verisurf Software Inc.: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf has released the fifth generation of its Verisurf X software. With model-based geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) inspection technology at its core, the all-new computer-aided inspection and reverse engineering software, Verisurf X5…
Michelle LaBrosse
Michelle LaBrosse is the founder of Cheetah Learning
There’s a reason that top-performing executives all over the world have coaches. It’s because good coaching dramatically improves performance.
A study by Metrix Global showed coaching produced a 529-percent return on investment (ROI).…
Laurel Thoennes @ QD
In Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance (Pfeiffer, 2010), authors Darleen DeRosa and Richard Lepsinger share findings from their 2008 global research study. They wanted to know what factors made some virtual teams excel while so many dissolved in failure…
Xing-Fei He is senior product manager at DALSA Corp.
Flawless brake operation is so essential to the safety of a vehicle that all brake systems have passed some type of safety testing before a driver ever gets behind the wheel. But how much better would you, as a driver, feel knowing that the…
Direct Dimensions Inc.
(Direct Dimensions Inc.: Baltimore) -- Direct Dimensions, a cutting-edge 3-D imaging technology firm, ranked number 2,633 by Inc. magazine on its fourth-annual “Inc. 5000” list, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The Inc. list represents the most comprehensive…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. unveiled the complete new line of ROMER Absolute Arms in Chicago at IMTS 2010. In addition to the previously released absolute Arm six axis arm for tactile and tube inspection, two additional seven axis models were demonstrated in…
FARO
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., a global provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, has introduced the Focus3D, a new laser scanner.
Focus3D is a high-performance 3-D laser scanner for detailed measurement and documentation with intuitive touch screen control…
InnovMetric
(InnovMetric Software: Quebec City) -- InnovMetric Software is pleased to announce that version 12 of PolyWorks/Modeler will offer new parametric 2-D sketching capabilities. This development project is inscribed within a vision of true interoperability with CAD/CAM applications in which the role…
Nikon Metrology Inc.
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology introduces the Laser Radar MV330/350 for automated large-scale metrology applications. The new Laser Radar doubles measurement speed and performance, offers better data quality through improved signal-to-noise ratio, and features enhanced hole and…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Explanations of theory, lists of rules, and discussions of procedure are the basis of learning lean Six Sigma. However without a visceral understanding of the application of this powerful system in various circumstances, the knowledge remains, at best,…
Association For Manufacturing Technology AMT
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- September U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $399.76 million, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and the The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the United…
(Alliance Scale Inc.: Canton, MA) -- A line of Class F cast-iron grip handle weights, which are NIST-traceable for the calibration and field testing of a wide range of scales, has been introduced by Alliance Scale Inc.
Alliance grip handle weights are Class F cast-iron painted, density 7.2 for…
Pilgrim Quality Solutions
(Pilgrim Software Inc.: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Software Inc., a global provider of enterprise risk, compliance, and quality management (ERCQM) software solutions, has announced the availability of SmartSolve 9, the latest and most enhanced version of its integrated process automation platform…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo has launched the GTP—Good Titration Practice program—to establish reliable and risk-free titration in practice.
GTP covers the entire life cycle of a titration system. Reliable titration starts long before daily routines in the laboratory. A…
i-nexus
(i-nexus: Coventry, UK) -- Are you looking for ways to ensure your business strategies are not just planned, but cascaded and executed effectively? Join Paul Docherty, CEO of i-nexus and expert on strategy execution, the emerging discipline of business execution, as he shares how leading…
Noncontact measurement is the fastest growing segment in the metrology world, with new methods and technologies being introduced every year. As with all new solutions, end users want to know how to evaluate the performance of these new products, and for that they turn to standards organizations.…
AICON 3D Systems
Uwira Oy , based in the West-Finnish harbor town of Vaasa, is part of the Leinolat Group, a corporation of six companies. Since 1993, the company has successfully manufactured welding products for the energy, shipbuilding, and machine-building sectors. One of Uwira’s special fields is the…
Talion Edwards
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been invaluable to the U.S. measurement industry by developing calibration techniques for equipment used for large volume portable metrology. The U.K.'s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has made a further commitment to address the…
Talion Edwards
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been invaluable to the U.S. measurement industry by developing calibration techniques for equipment used for large volume portable metrology. The United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has made a further commitment to…
Laurel Thoennes @ QD
The term “never events” refers to particularly shocking medical errors that should never occur (e.g., wrong-site, wrong-patient, wrong-procedure surgeries). There are other terms used in official capacities for such errors, but none have captured the nation’s attention or perhaps done more toward…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The growing demand for online courses and supporting technology has resulted in structural and functional challenges for universities and colleges. These changes have led many distance-education providers to recognize the value of understanding the fundamental…
American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Customer satisfaction dropped for several nondurables, while tobacco products rebounded from last year’s lows, according to a report released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The report covers customer satisfaction with beer, soft drinks, tobacco, and…
(Morehead: Charlotte, NC) -- Morehead, the human-capital research firm, will host a webinar titled “Secrets of a Winning Healthcare Organization.” The free hour-long webinar will be broadcast on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 at 1 p.m. EST.
Rod Wilkes, senior vice president of Morehead’s Client…
