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BYK-Gardner
(BYK-Gardner: Geretsried, Germany) -- BYK-Gardner, a manufacturer of instruments and system solutions for quality control of color, appearance, and physical properties of paints and plastics, has a new feature in its measurement data analysis software, smart-chart, which distributes digital master…
(Bloomsbury Publishing: London) -- Is your business as profitable as it could be? How can you rise above your competition, and stay there once you have? Most management tools only look at one part of the picture, but business performance excellence (BPE) is the complete model, integrating new…
CMSC
(CMSC: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the eminent membership association for industrial measurement professionals, is hosting the first CMSC Metrology Careers Fair on Thursday, July 19, 2012, from 10 a.m.–11:30 a.m., during the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC…
Microscan
(Microscan: Renton, WA) -- Microscan, developer of precision data acquisition and control systems, has added the I-PAK SE2 stainless-steel enclosure to its Visionscape I-PAK machine vision inspection system. The I-PAK SE2 is designed to meet the specific needs of pharmaceutical manufacturers. As a…
Patrick Gallagher
Guest blog post for NIST by Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, and the director of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
We’ve been hearing a lot about manufacturing, especially advanced manufacturing, these days. Things like U.S.…
Maplesoft
(Maplesoft: Waterloo, ON) -- Maplesoft, a provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics, has announced a new product that integrates MapleSim, the company’s physical modeling tool, with vehicle dynamics tools from VI-grade. The MapleSim Connector for VI-…
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Healthcare Kaizen, by Mark Graban (Productivity Press, 2012), focuses on the principles and methods of daily continuous improvement, or kaizen, for health care professionals and organizations. Kaizen is a Japanese word that means “change for the better,” as…
Atlas Machine and Supply
(Atlas: Louisville, KY) -- Atlas Machine and Supply, headquartered at the Jefferson Riverport International in Louisville, Kentucky, has launched its nationwide laser-tracking metrology services for use in large-scale, on-site machining jobs for industry. The laser technology is especially…
Timothy F. Bednarz
T eams are created to tackle difficult issues and tough organizational problems. Invariably, the solutions that teams develop result in active transformations that disrupt the status quo and personal agendas—including, sometimes, removing people from their positions of power. Consequently, there is…
Michelle LaBrosse
It has been said, “Teaching is the best form of learning.” When was the last time you put on your teaching hat to help someone else? When you take time to help others, you not only do them a favor but you also improve your own skills in the process of helping them with theirs.
Part of being a good…
Joanna Leigh
To continually improve operations, satisfy customers, and successfully achieve universally recognized accreditations such as the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (Nadcap), it is important to have a company culture that is focused on quality.
Too often, the quality…
MIT News
Complex systems inhabit a “gray world” of partial failures: While a system may continue to operate as a whole, bits and pieces inevitably degrade. Over time, these small failures can add up to a single catastrophic failure, incapacitating the system.
“Think about your car,” says Olivier de Weck,…
Miriam Boudreaux
There you are, in the middle of an internal or external audit, and the auditor asks you a question that you are truly not sure about. What do you do?
1. Hit the panic button. 2. Ask the audience for a hint. 3. Phone a friend.
Well, there isn’t a studio audience, and chances are the auditor didn’t…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. will feature innovations in measurement automation at the International Manufacturing Technology Show 2012 (IMTS) being held at McCormick Place in Chicago from Sept. 10–15, 2012. In booth E-5202, Hexagon will exhibit a full…
INUS Technology Inc.
(INUS: Seoul, South Korea) -- INUS Technology, a provider of technology and services in 3-D scanning and developer of Rapidform software, a well-known name in reverse engineering, inspection, and scan data processing, has announced a strategic agreement with Basis Software, developer of the…
RealVision
(RealVision: Eagle, ID) -- When everyday operations take precedence for a company, it’s difficult to carve away the time or energy to focus on the maintenance of the equipment, tools, or machines. However, when those machines and tools aren’t kept up and need replacing or repair, it typically…
AIA
(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- The AIA director of standards development, Bob McCurrach, will give an overview of the current global vision standards landscape and provide the latest updates on the AIA vision standards in a free webinar, “What’s New in AIA Vision Standards,” on June 27, at 10 a.m. EDT.…
(Omek: Givat Ella, Israel) -- Omek Optics of Israel exhibited at the Optatec Show in Frankfurt, Germany, which was held May 22–25, 2012. Omek, a designer and manufacturer of high-end industrial microscopes, teamed up with Allied Vision Technologies to demonstrate the capabilities of its low-…
Umberto Tunesi
I recently met a good friend who works as a junior member of a cabin crew for a well-known airline. I won’t disclose its name or hers for obvious reasons; you’ll see why as you read on.
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Suffice to say that working conditions for flight…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: Washington, DC) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) invites all interested organizations to take advantage of valuable sponsorship opportunities for World Standards Week 2012, which will be held Oct. 9–12 at the Newseum, Knight Conference Center in Washington, D.C.
World…
International Manufacturing Technology Show
(IMTS: McLean, VA) -- The 29th edition of IMTS—The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2012 is on track to rank among the top five largest IMTS events. Scheduled for Sept. 10–15, 2012, at Chicago’s McCormick Place, this year’s show will cover almost 1.2 million net square feet of exhibit…
McGraw-Hill
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- When it comes to employee engagement, Timothy R. Clark goes where no one has gone before. One of today’s leading experts on the subject, Clark reveals that the business world has been focusing on only half the question—namely, the organization’s role in driving employee…
Britt Reid
When it comes to statistical process control (SPC), it’s easy to get lost in the weeds and forget what you are really trying to accomplish. The whole point is to make better products for the customer. To do that, you have to perform the same exact processes over and over across every production…
(Boeing: Chicago) -- The Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will hold their fourth joint Global Product Data Interoperability Summit (GPDIS) Nov. 12–15, 2012, at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos in Chandler, Arizona. The theme of this year’s summit is “Product Data Quality Integrated throughout the…
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The Workforce Engagement Equation, by Jamison J. Manion (Productivity Press, 2012) is for hands-on leaders engaged in effecting change. Describing the science behind the “art of managing” process improvement, it will help you bridge the gap between strategy…
