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(CEESI: Nunn, CO) -- The Colorado Engineering Experiment Station Inc. (CEESI), provider of calibration services, specialty testing, research, and engineering services, has announced its 2012 flow-measurement training courses to be held in San Antonio and Houston, Texas, in April. Following is a…
(DCS: Troy, MI) -- Dimensional Control Systems Inc. (DCS), provider of quality management software solutions and consulting services, has announced that Donald Jasurda, the vice president of DCS, will address composites engineers, aerospace and defense manufacturers, and others at the 2012…
(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Management and Organization Theory, by Jeffrey A. Miles (Jossey-Bass, 2012), offers a summary and analysis of the 40 most popular, researched, and applied management and organization theories. This important resource includes key instruments used to measure variables…
(Indicate Technologies: Santa Clara, CA) -- Have you ever wondered why your organization has not been successful implementing geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)? Greg Hetland, Ph.D., a sitting member of the ASME Y14.5.1 committee responsible for the standard on the mathematical…
(The Harrington Group: Orlando, FL) -- The Harrington Group Inc. invites you to attend a webinar conducted by H. James Harrington, an internationally recognized guru on performance improvement and the founder of California-based Harrington Institute, an international consulting firm providing a…
(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an independent nonprofit organization founded in 1991 to help lead the improvement of health care throughout the world, will host its 13th Annual International Summit, “Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the…
(ANSI: Washington, D.C.) -- To facilitate and advance U.S. participation in international standardization activities, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is offering two education courses at no cost for eligible constituents in 2012. The courses are provided as webinars.
Registration…
(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- To meet the needs of the global aerospace industry, SAE International has issued a new technical standard to combat the increasing volume of fraudulent and counterfeit electronic parts entering the aerospace supply chain. Such counterfeit parts can pose significant risks to…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Self-balancing is not just a tweak or change to the formula used to determine assembly line balancing, but a completely transformed method for achieving continuous flow. Among the reasons for trying self-balancing are that you can expect a productivity…
(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…
(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…
