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(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- Bob Lutz, the “Ultimate Car Guy” and former vice chairman of General Motors Co., is the keynote speaker at the 2012 AIAG Supply Chain Summit held May 8–9, 2012, in Troy, Michigan. In keeping with the theme, “Managing Recovery: Volume Pressure on the Supply Chain,” the…
(ANSI: Washington, D.C.) -- Twenty-one federal government representatives from 10 different agencies met at the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) headquarters in Washington, D.C., for the third “Interagency Best Practices—ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024” meeting on April 11, 2012. The biannual…
(Teledyne: Waterloo, ON) -- Teledyne DALSA, designer and manufacturer of digital imaging solutions, and provider of semiconductor products and services, will highlight its multispectral, aerospace, IR, and custom CCD and CMOS sensors and cameras at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference…
(Plex: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online FSMS, a leading enterprise food-safety management system, is offering a webinar called “Ensure Readiness for SQF Changes,” which will take place May 1, 2012, at 1 p.m. EDT. Click here to register for this informative webinar.…
(Setra: Boxborough, MA) -- Setra Systems Inc., a designer and manufacturer of pressure sensor instruments and products, has announced the availability for online purchase of more than 30 of its most popular pressure, humidity, current, barometric, and vacuum sensing product families at www.setra.…
(FLIR: Portland, OR) -- FLIR Systems has unveiled the FLIR T420 and T440 thermal imagers. These high-performance infrared cameras enable imaging capabilities that help professionals find and capture problems more easily and with dramatically more vivid thermal images.
MSX thermal image enhancement…
(Bruker: Wien, Austria) -- During the 2012 Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Convention and Exposition held recently in Las Vegas, Bruker, a developer, manufacturer, and provider of scientific instruments and analytical services, introduced the S1 TITAN handheld XRF analyzer. The S1…
(NSI: Rogers, MN) -- North Star Imaging (NSI) has developed a groundbreaking industrial X-ray technology, 4-D X-ray computed tomography, which NSI calls “4D CT.” NSI’s patent-pending product is considered the future of industrial 3-D X-ray inspection.
4-D X-ray CT allows users to reconstruct a…
(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf Software has released its new Validate software application. The software provides precise CAD model translation validation by comparing the authority CAD model to the translated CAD model, enabling manufacturers to quickly identify any translation error.
“The…
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Health care and other organizations often report performance metrics through a table of numbers, pie charts, stacked bar charts, red-yellow-green scorecards with variance to goals, or time series charts. Running a facility by using this form of historical data…
(ASTM International: West Conshohocken, PA) -- Responding to increasing requests from suppliers and their customers, ASTM International has developed a new program, the Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity. Launched in April 2012, this latest offering is an outgrowth of ASTM International’s…
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) — The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), which provides an educational forum for the pharmaceutical industry, has brought together a substantial lineup of global regulatory officials and pharmaceutical industry leaders to be plenary speakers at the Food…
(ANSI: Washington, DC) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in partnership with 27 leading organizations from across the U.S. standardization community, have coordinated a free online resource—the Standards Boost Business (SBB)—designed to help U.S. businesses understand the power of…
(Lennox: London) -- Lennox Hill Ltd. has launched version 2.0 of its complaints-handling module as part of its long-term plan of continuously adding features and modules to its online isoTracker Quality Management Software.
The upgrade to the Customer Complaints module is intended to give it an…
(Silicon Valley ASQ: Santa Clara, CA) -- Silicon Valley ASQ, Section 0613 invites you to participate in the following quality education courses. Along with a full schedule of monthly meeting events and activities, SV ASQ offers educational opportunities in quality. Here are the technical and…
(CMSC: New Orleans, LA) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, will host a series of “pilot” certification examinations at its 28th annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), July 16–20, 2012, at The Roosevelt…
(RLWS: Rice Lake, WI) -- Rice Lake Weighing Systems (RLWS) has announced expanded laboratory capabilities that will accommodate the very highest level of precision— International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) Classification E1. Many pharmaceutical companies, chemical labs, and calibration…
(IQS: North Olmsted, OH) -- IQS, developer of enterprise quality and compliance management software, is presenting no-cost webinars that provide actionable insight into performance and risk-related metrics.
All IQS webinars begin at 2 p.m. EDT and last about 45 minutes.
• April 19, 2012—Audits:…
(Rapidform: Seoul, South Korea) -- INUS Technology, Inc. has begun shipping the latest version its reverse-engineering software, Rapidform XOR. It’s the only software that combines 3-D scan-data processing and parametric solid modeling so users can create intelligent CAD models from point clouds…
(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas (KMSA), a global leader in the industrial measurement of color, light and 3-D shape, launched its AK-120/130/140 Photovoltaic (PV) Reference Cells, the world's first triple-junction solar reference cells.
Now available, the AK-120/130…
(DCS: Troy, MI) -- Dimensional Control Systems (DCS), provider of quality management software solutions and consulting services, has announced that vice president Donald Jasurda will address automotive professionals at the 2012 SAE World Congress. The event will be held at Cobo Center in Detroit,…
(Gemba Academy: Morro Bay, CA) -- Gemba Academy, provider of on-demand online lean training, is offering a new webinar on Tues., April 24, 2012, at 1 p.m. CDT. Titled “A Factory of One,” the webinar will be presented by Dan Markovitz, president of TimeBack Management.
Most people spend all their…
(Geomagic: Research Triangle Park, NC) -- Geomagic, a global provider of 3-D software for capturing, creating, and inspecting digital models of physical objects, has acquired Sensable Technology Inc.’s 3-D design and haptics businesses. Sensable, of Wilmington, Massachusetts, is a leading developer…
(MVG: Horsham, PA) -- Microwave Vision Group, producers of antenna test and measuring systems, introduces the Dentro LRX, which completes the range of nondestructive inspection tools on offer for industrial clients.
Dentro LRX uses microwave technology, instrumental to Microwave Vision’s success,…
(Viscom: Hanover, Germany) -- In surface mount technology (SMT) electronic-assembly production, 3-D solder paste inspection (SPI) has established itself as the additional inspection gate to complement optical or X-ray inspection. The key task is detecting impermissible printed pads in terms of…
