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(Pilgrim Software Inc.: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Software Inc., a global provider of enterprise, risk, compliance, and quality management software solutions, has announced the availability of SmartSolve 8.2.30, the latest and most enhanced version of its process automation product. The new version is…
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology Inc. introduces the Confocal NEXIV-K6555 with advanced confocal metrology capabilities that provide new measurement possibilities for demanding applications. The Confocal NEXIV-K6555 incorporates the latest Confocal, image processing, and Through…
(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- Carl Zeiss now offers the fifth generation of contact scanning with the new VAST Performance Kit. The kit is optionally available for the top-of-the-line PRISMO, CenterMax, and GageMax coordinate measuring machines and incorporates various elements of optimized…
(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- Traditional and nontraditional developers and publishers of engineering information can now look to SAE International as an active partner to make content available to the mobility engineering community.
Global in its scope, SAE International’s new Content Partnership…
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology Inc. introduces the Eclipse L300N/L300ND, an FPD/LSI inspection microscope with an enhanced epi-fluorescence function enabling 365 nm UV excitation, optimal for inspecting semiconductor resist residues on 300 mm wafers and organic…
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., global provider of portable 3-D measurement and imaging solutions, has released an accurate, break-resistant, spherically mounted retroreflector (SMR) as a part of its newly expanded line of laser tracker targets.
The break-resistant SMRs offer…
(Olympus NDT: Waltham, MA) -- Olympus NDT introduces the first semiautomated (semi-AUT) ultrasound phased-array solution developed for corrosion mapping applications. This portable inspection solution comprises several components, including the OmniScan MX PA flaw detector, OmniScan MXU software…
(Productivity Press: New York) -- Although it is a given that most lean companies adopt methods to standardize cyclical activities, they often fail to apply the same rigor to noncyclical work, believing that it cannot be measured. Standardized Work for Noncyclical Processes (Productivity Press,…
(Omnex Inc.: Ann Arbor, MI) – Omnex Inc. will present “Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) & Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA),” a one-day seminar on Aug. 23 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The seminar’s goals are to provide a hands-on approach to APQP and its relationship to…
(Veeco: Tucson) -- Veeco Instruments Inc., a global provider of precision instrumentation and metrology solutions, announces a new ContourGT Optical Surface Profiler configuration optimized for characterizing high-brightness, light-emitting diode (HB-LED) patterned sapphire substrates (PSS). The…
(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- Systematically implementing customer requests was the main challenge in developing the new ACCURA coordinate measuring machine. The result is a multisensor-capable measuring system that permits fast, economical, precise, and flexible measurements—primarily due…
(Toyota Motor Sales: Torrance, CA) -- Toyota Motor Sales recently announced that it is expanding its Product Quality Field Office program to four additional U.S. regional sales areas, following the success of a pilot program launched in the New York region in late 2009. Toyota Motor Sales will…
(Exact Metrology Inc.: Cincinnati) -- Exact Metrology Inc. has opened a new office in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield, Wisconsin. The facility will support the company’s rapidly growing contract measurement services business, as well as provide technical support and training to Exact Metrology…
(Fluke Corp.: Everett, WA) -- Electronic test-and-measurement technology provider Fluke Corp. has introduced the 1594A/1595A Super-Thermometers from Hart Scientific, designed to combine accuracy, value, and innovative features for calibrating SPRTs, PRTs, and thermistors.
The Fluke 1594A…
(Pilgrim Software: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Software Inc., a provider of enterprise risk, compliance, and quality management (ECQM) software solutions, has announced the global availability of its expanded Regulatory Reporting platform. Rounding out the platform, the new MedDRA adapter integrates…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended learning support technologies, has introduced its first Master Black Belt (MBB) Summer Webcast Series. This series of three, free one-hour lectures by process improvement experts…
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. recently announced that its global Food Safety Response Center located in Dreieich, Germany, has developed two new analytical screening methods to detect petroleum contamination in oysters and fish—specifically, hydrocarbons…
(ISO: Geneva) -- As the third edition of the ISO technical specification ISO/TS 29001 for the international oil and gas industries is rolled out, feedback indicates its increasing acceptance as the baseline requirements document for quality management in these sectors.
ISO/TS 29001:2010…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- A new standard on social responsibility (SR), ISO 26000—“Guidance on social responsibility” will be made available this November through the American Society for Quality (ASQ). ASQ serves as the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) secretariat to ISO Working Group SR, developers…
(Pinpoint Laser Systems: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems is introducing the new Pinpoint Proline Alignment Kit, a visual laser system for checking and measuring straightness, flatness, squareness, parallelism, leveling, and many other attributes. This kit combines the features of a transit…
(UNITRON: Commack, NY) -- UNITRON Ltd. is proud to announce the introduction of its new 15854 LED Ring Light. Manufactured to fit any stereo microscope, they are ideal for observing circuit board, electronic, and highly reflective specimens.
Designed for the cost-conscious consumer, these light…
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS, a statistical process control (SPC) software company, and Branson, a provider of plastics joining and metal welding, have announced they are including XPort, the quality control integration application, with all Branson 2000X touch-screen welders. Pairing…
(Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ: London) -- Six Sigma & Process Excellence IQ is proud to announce the Healthcare Process Improvement Network (H-PIN), the online and face-to-face information resource for lean Six Sigma (LSS) and process improvement professionals in the health care…
(Advanced Test Equipment Rentals: San Diego) -- Advanced Test Equipment Rentals, a provider of electronic test and measurement equipment rentals, announces immediate availability of the Teseq NSG 3060 6kV conducted immunity generator, which is designed to fulfill testing requirements for four ISO/…
(The National Science Foundation: Arlington, VA) -- To characterize subsurface oil plumes in the Gulf using novel technology and the latest in biogeochemical techniques, a team of scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) embarked June 17 for a 12-day research effort in the…
