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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…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ) will present the first Gryna Award to Deborah L. Hopen during its annual World Conference on Quality and Improvement, which will be held May 15, 2011, in Pittsburgh. Hopen is recognized for her innovative contributions and achievements in…
IEEE
(IEEE: New York) -- Recent events have highlighted the importance of risk-based decision making. Modern systems are becoming more complex and the economic, safety, and other consequences of a system failure are more serious. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) are challenging…
Metronor
(Metronor: Nesbru, Norway) -- Portable coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) of the articulated arm type have become an important tool for many businesses. Continuous improvements by various manufacturers have slowly improved the performance and practicality of these relatively inexpensive…
NQA
(NQA, USA: Acton, MA) -- National Quality Assurance, USA (NQA, USA), a leading global provider of quality and environmental management system registration services, has announced the date for its East Coast Quality Conference, which will be held June 10, 2011, in Milford, Massachusetts.
The one…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- “Free wheeling” will take on a new meaning at the ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement in Pittsburgh, May 16–18. Attendees of the annual American Society for Quality (ASQ) World Conference plan to give back to the community through a special build-a-bike initiative…
SICK
(SICK: Minneapolis) -- SICK, a leading manufacturer of sensors, safety systems, machine vision, and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, has launched its Lector620 image-based reader for 1D and 2D codes. The Lector620 is ideal for track and traceability…
QI Macros
(QI Macros: Denver) -- KnowWare International Inc. announces that with Excel 2011 for Apple computers, users once again have access to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support. Mac users of Excel 2008 have been patiently waiting for the inclusion of QI Macros in Excel 2008. Although Excel 2008…
Creaform Inc.
(Creaform: Stuttgart, Germany) -- Creaform, a leader in portable 3-D optical measurement technologies and 3-D engineering services, will release its new VXtrack dynamic tracking software module during the 25th CONTROL international trade fair for quality assurance that will be held…
Leap Technologies Inc.
Throughout more than a decade of paying attention to the psychological drivers of participation and searching for a better way to engage employees in continuous improvement, Leap Technologies developed the Rapid Action Process (released in 2006), an approach that blends psychological motivation…
Mark Patton
The U.S. Army aims to make ill-fitting uniforms and protective gear things of the past when it completes a body-measurement survey next year.
Supply officials ran into difficulty acquiring the correct sizes of chemical gear and body armor for troops at the beginning of the Iraq and Afghanistan…
NIMS
(NIMS: Fairfax, VA) -- The Precision Machining Technology, CNC Milling, and CNC Turning Championships will be held during the week of June 21–24 in Kansas City, Missouri, as part of the 2011 SkillsUSA National Championships. SkillsUSA, a partnership of students, teachers, and industry working…
Arun Hariharan
In part one of this article, I explained the technique of root cause analysis (RCA) in an easy-to-understand manner with simple examples. In part two, we looked at some critical success factors to get maximum results from your RCA. In part three, the conclusion to this article, we’ll take a look…
Ryan E. Day
Let me begin by saying that I have a great deal of respect for Mike Micklewright’s achievements and contributions in the realms of business, training, and writing. I feel the need, however, to explore the nature of his reasoning in reference to his “Croc of the Month” article published in Quality…
American Sentinel University
Critical care units at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, New York, were faced with a formidable task. They had applied to receive the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, a distinction given only to the top intensive care units in the United States. One of the components on…
University of Michigan
(University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI) -- A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells.
The researchers found a way to make an “optical battery,” says Stephen Rand…
Mary F. McDonald
Every human being, over time, yearns to put his life in order—to have his expectations met, and to use filters to help him know how a situation will resolve itself. Consequently, we subconsciously strive to put new information into existing categories, based on previous patterns and preset concepts…
