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Kimberly Egan
Last May, the director of the vegetable research institute at the Qingdao Academy of Agricultural Science in Qingdao, China, told the media that the Chinese government does not encourage farmers to use plant hormones on watermelons because watermelons “are very sensitive.”
The Chinese have learned…
DEKRA
The results are in: Investments in energy management are a win‐win‐win situation for investors, stakeholders, and the environment. The main objective of an industrial organization is to be profitable by the sale of goods or services. But leading companies are now realizing significant cost‐cutting…
Bill Kalmar
Back in the Dark Ages when I was growing up, people traveling by plane considered it a privilege and a social event. As such, airline travelers dressed accordingly. Men wore suits and perhaps a tie, while ladies wore dresses. Even children adopted society’s norms back then and wore outfits…
Third Wave Systems
(Third Wave Systems: Minneapolis) -- During last week’s EMO 2011, the international trade fair for the machine tool industry held in Hannover, Germany, Third Wave Systems introduced current customers and members of the international press to its newest machining modeling capabilities: part…
NIMS
(NIMS: Fairfax, VA) -- Last year at the 2010 Manufacturing Summit, sponsored by the Swiss Business Hub and the National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor Jane Oates gave the attendees a three-part homework assignment dealing with the support and…
McGraw-Hill
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- Six Sigma for Sustainability: How Organizations Design and Deploy Winning Environmental Programs (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011), is a new hardcover book by Thomas McCarty, Michael Jordan, and Daniel Probst, three Jones Lang LaSalle executives and experts in quality…
NVision Inc.
(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- NVision Inc., a leader in 3-D noncontact optical scanning for more than 21 years, recently provided an orthodontic company with the information it needed to recalibrate its CT scanner. The company, an orthodontic supplier, used NVision’s Engineering Service Division…
Nikon Instruments Inc.
(Nikon Instruments: Melville, NY) -- Putting the power in the hands of the people for the fifth year running, Nikon Instruments Inc. announced today that its 2011 Small World Photomicrography Competition Popular Vote is open. Visitors to Nikon’s site will have until 5 p.m. EDT on Mon., Oct. 31,…
AAMI
(AAMI: Arlington, VA) -- The challenges in managing medical devices on wireless and wired IT networks are the focus of a special Horizons magazine just released by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). The latest in a series of special-topic issues, this one…
Cognex Corp.
In the not-so-distant past, manufacturers using laser scanners and conventional area-scan image-based readers had to put up with inherent technology limitations. Laser scanners, for example, have a hard time reading bar codes through plastic shrink-wrap, bar codes printed on flexible material…
Ford Motor Co.
(Ford: Dearborn, MI) -- Ford Motor Co. is putting design in the hands of enthusiasts with a new customizer website that features the 2012 Mustang. The automaker launched the site to let Mustang enthusiasts take advantage of the classic design with limitless possibilities.
“This site enables…
Taylor Hobson
(Taylor Hobson: Leicester, UK) -- The Ultra Precision Benchtop 3D Optical Profiler from Taylor Hobson brings high-performance optical measurements within the reach of both precision manufacturing and research companies.
The Talysurf CCI Lite is an advanced type of measurement interferometer (…
FODIS
(FODIS: Lustdorf, Switzerland) -- FODIS, a leader in the market for high-speed panoramic camera equipment, presents FODIS Measure 3D with new features, a combination of a fast, high-resolution, 360° panorama camera with innovative software packages. The FODIS Measure 3D allows direct 3-D…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Few industrial sectors have such stringent quality requirements as the pharmaceutical industry. To meet these exacting specifications, companies are increasingly utilizing intelligent vision systems.
For more than 30 years, EISAI Machinery GmbH, located in Cologne,…
Michelle LaBrosse
When a wedding invitation comes in the mail, my gut instinct is to leave it in the mailbox and have the mailman take it away to someone else who might actually want to attend. This is my thought for about two seconds, before logic sets in and I realize that wedding guests are not so replaceable…
MIT News
Ask someone with her hands in her lap to pick up a coffee mug on the table she’s sitting at, and she’ll extract her hand from under the table and stretch her arm out toward the mug. Instruct an autonomous robot to perform the same feat, and it may think for a few seconds, zigzag its robotic…
Lean Enterprise Institute
(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), a nonprofit education, publishing, research, and conference organization, will run a program of 11 lean management workshops in Atlanta, Oct. 18–20, 2011, in one of LEI’s biggest and broadest lean learning sessions of the year.
The…
AMETEK
(AMETEK: Berwyn, PA) -- Land Instruments International, a unit of AMETEK that designs and manufactures instruments for industrial infrared temperature measurement, combustion efficiency, and environmental pollutant emissions, has announced efficiency and accuracy improvements to its Cyclops…
Mark R. Hamel
Some lies you can see a mile away: “The check is in the mail.” “Your table will be ready in a few minutes.” “I didn’t say that.” “This won’t hurt a bit.” Add to this rather long list some lies of the lean variety. I’ve heard more than my fair share.
Often, I just shake off the falsehoods and…
Certified Comparator Products
(CCP: Beavercreek, OH) -- Certified Comparator Products has announced plans to move to a new, larger facility in early 2012. CCP has outgrown its existing manufacturing and sales showroom at 838 Distribution Dr., and will soon begin renovations at its new 19,000 sq ft Customer Center at 1174…
Kistler
(Kistler: Winterthur, Switzerland) -- Kistler, a global supplier of precision sensors, systems, and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque and acceleration, has introduced the Type 9260AA, a portable multicomponent force plate, designed to measure such parameters…
ASTM International
(ASTM: West Conshohocken, PA) -- Manufacturers of solar radiometers, and testing laboratories for solar energy, materials and durability testing will be among the primary users of a new ASTM International standard that outlines procedures using indoor test methods to calibrate radiometers with…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. has introduced a new feature for its In-Sight vision systems that allows manufacturers to easily and automatically test the vision system and verify that it is functioning correctly. This new functionality, called TestRun, is available only with In-Sight…
SAE International
(SAE: Warendale, PA) -- Project management (PM) and advanced product quality planning (APQP) are two critical techniques used in product development in the mobility industry. This seminar will bring these techniques together in an easy to understand format that goes beyond the typical concept…
J.D. Power and Associates
(J.D. Power: Westlake Village, CA) -- More than two-thirds of owner-reported, new-vehicle interior problems are design-related issues rather than defects or malfunctions, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 U.S. Interior Quality and Satisfaction Study.
The study finds that in 2011…
