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(Macro Sensors: Pennsauken, NJ) -- Macro Sensors, designer and manufacturer of linear and rotary sensors for position measurement and pressure feedback, has introduced a line of linear variable differential transformer (LVDT)-based dimensional gauging probes that provide highly accurate and precise…
(Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University) -- Naveen Ratnam Didla has won Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University’s Harrington Best TQM Thesis/Project Award 2011 for his master of science thesis titled, “Factors Affecting the Implementation of Project Quality Plan in the UAE Construction Projects” completed at…
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies, a global provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, has been named Manufacturer of the Year by the Manufacturers Association of Florida (MAF), an award that recognizes FARO for its excellence in manufacturing, customer service, and community…
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Focus 10 offers a completely new user interface and now provides support for handheld laser scanning and tactile probing. Users gain productivity through the intuitive and attractive user interface that optimizes available space of the 3-D scene. The tabbed ribbon…
(Assembly Guidance Systems: Chelmsford, MA) -- Alenia Aeronautica, a Boeing partner in Grottaglie, Italy, has purchased five LASERGUIDE long-throw systems for 787 fuselage production. The projector supporting the systems is a new model of LASERGUIDE, called LASERGUIDE LT, and is able to project…
(INUS: Seoul, South Korea) -- INUS Technology, developer of Rapidform 3D scanning software, has achieved 23-percent revenue growth in 2011. This achievement surpassed the company’s 2010 sales year, up till then the best ever in its 13-year history.
Overall, the company experienced growth across…
(InnovMetric: Quebec City, Canada) -- InnovMetric Software has announced that the latest intermediate release of the PolyWorks universal 3-D metrology platform, v. 12.0.3, can display laser-scanned points being captured in real time on Apple mobile devices, thanks to the new PolyWorks/Talisman app…
(Geomagic: Morrisville, NC) -- Geomagic, a global provider of 3-D software for creating and inspecting digital models of physical objects, has released its 2012 lineup of 3-D imaging products: Geomagic Studio 2012, Geomagic Wrap 2012, Geomagic Qualify 2012, Geomagic Qualify Probe, and Geomagic Wrap…
(NRK: Williamsburg, VA) -- New River Kinematics (NRK), producer of SpatialAnalyzer, has announced record revenue and earnings in 2011 with a 21-percent revenue growth over the previous year. During the past five years, NRK has maintained a greater than 20-percent average year-to-year growth.…
(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf Software has release a new version of Verisurf X5.1. The software is loaded with innovative features that enhance in-process portable inspection, tool building, composite wing analysis, 3-D scanning, and reverse engineering.
“We continue to collaborate with our…
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology has released CoreView 6.0 for the Cognitens WLS400 series. Winner of Photonics Tech Briefs’ 2011 Reader’s Choice Product of the Year, the WLS400 white-light series is available in both automated and manual configurations. Coreview 6.0, the latest…
(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Users of the handheld DPC 743B/744 or the new DPC 753/754 documenting calibrators from Fluke, manufacturer, distributer, and service provider for electronic test tools and software, can now upgrade from DPCTrack2 software to the latest ProCalV5 release, which offers more…
(Adept Technology: Pleasanton, CA) -- Adept Technology Inc., designer, manufacturer, and provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics systems and autonomous mobile services, has announced a collaboration with Willow Garage, developer of hardware and open source software for personal robotics…
(Aerotech: Pittsburgh) -- The ABL1500 direct-drive linear air-bearing stage from Aerotech Inc., designer and manufacturer of precision motion control products, meets the needs of demanding scanning and inspection applications with fully active preload, high stiffness, and unsurpassed geometric…
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- “If your company depends on data—and it’s hard to imagine a company that doesn’t—you need a cloud strategy, today,” says Hunter Muller, author of On Top of the Cloud: How CIOs Leverage New Technologies to Drive Change and Build Value Across the Enterprise (Wiley, 2012). “…
(Avery Point Group: Alpharetta, GA) -- As the economy continues to heal, post-recession demand for continuous improvement talent persists strongly, according to the latest study of almost 7,100 recent Internet job postings reviewed by The Avery Point Group.
The executive search firm’s eighth…
(MESA International: Chandler, AZ) -- Every two years, Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International, a community of manufacturers, producers, industry leaders, and solution providers focused on improving operations management capabilities, and its research partner, Cambashi,…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- As a society, we tend to reward problem solvers rather than those who prevent problems at their source. In other words, we focus on after-the-fact occurrences (“appraisal activities”) instead of trying to eliminate these occurrences (“preventing activities…
(Elcometer: Manchester, UK) -- As part of its continuing growth strategy Elcometer, a leader in equipment for the corrosion-inspection industry, has launched a comprehensive range of ultrasonic thickness gauges and flaw detectors.
The range includes both corrosion and precision thickness gauges…
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- December 2011 U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $519.98 million according to The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S.…
(nCode: Southfield, MI) -- nCode, the leading brand of durability, test, and analysis products offered by HBM, introduces with version 8 of its software suite significant new technologies for both physical test and computer-aided engineering (CAE) durability. nCode 8 includes nCode GlyphWorks, a…
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Based on the work at the Stanford University’ Institute of Design and its Environments Collaborative Initiative, Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration, by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft (Wiley, 2012), is a tool that shows how space can be…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- More than half of the engineers polled in a recent survey from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) said the amount of studying needed to succeed and maintain high grades in science and math were the primary challenges they faced while pursuing an engineering degree.
While…
(Gartner: Stamford CT) -- Organizational politics are emerging as a challenge, and through 2016 they will prevent at least one-third of business process management (BPM) efforts progressing from one-off projects to enterprisewide adoption, according to Gartner Inc.
Gartner analysts revealed some…
(NIST: Washington) -- President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget for the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) submitted to Congress proposes an appropriations funding level of $857 million, an increase of $106.2 million from FY 2012.
More than half of…