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(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Approaching the topic of digital holography from the practical perspective of industrial inspection, Digital Holography for MEMS and Microsystem Metrology, edited by Anand Asundi (Wiley, 2011), describes the process of digital holography and its growing applications for…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ), the global voice of quality, is gearing up for the 2011 World Quality Month celebration in November with the launch this week of the YouQ video contest—asking people passionate about quality to show how quality tools have made a…
(Microscan: Renton, WA) -- Microscan, a global technology leader in bar code, machine vision, and lighting solutions, has released the Vision HAWK smart camera, built for high performance in rugged packaging and production environments.
Manufacturers in the pharmaceutical, food and beverage,…
(threeRivers 3D: Pittsburgh) -- threeRivers 3D Inc., a manufacturer of standard and custom 3-D imaging systems, has launched the LC-2-MACRO laser scanner. The LC-2-MACRO is optimized for 3-D scanning small parts such as dental molds, hearing-aid impressions, jewelry, and other highly detailed…
(A2LA: Frederick, MD) -- The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA), a nonprofit, nongovernmental, public service,
membership society that provides comprehensive services in laboratory accreditation and
laboratory-related training, is now offering on-site advanced…
(ANSI: Washington, D.C.) -- High voltage… biohazard… wet floor… radioactive materials… the effectiveness of safety signs like these relies on consistency and bold, graphic impact to warn people against specific hazards and personal injury. Six recently revised American National Standards (ANS)…
(Jossey-Bass/Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- The Future of Value: How Sustainability Creates Value Through Competitive Differentiation, by Eric Lowitt (Jossey-Bass, 2011) reveals what it takes for companies to grow and outperform the competition in today’s growth-constrained, sustainability-conscious…
(Paul N. Gardner Co.: Pompano Beach, FL) -- The pH/ORP TesTrode is perfect for general purpose, environmental, aquaculture, or other pH and temperature measurements.
With the tester’s ±0.02 pH unit accuracy and calibration ability with 1, 2, or 3 pH buffers that are automatically…
(CSA: Cleveland) -- CSA Standards, a leading standards-based solutions organization, has announced the recipients of the 2011 Awards for Outstanding Achievement. In its fifth year, the awards are presented to individuals, committees, and organizations for exceptional service and achievement in…
(Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Worcester, MA) -- Studying the complexities of surfaces—their textures, roughness, and behavior—can yield a world of information in a broad range of fields, including anthropology, archaeology, biomedical sciences, food science, forensics, and manufacturing.…
Editor’s note: IVANS is providing a 30-minute webinar on Sept. 22, 2011, at 2 p.m. EDT, demonstrating AuditDocs. There is no cost to attend the webinar. Register here.
(IVANS: Stamford, CT) -- IVANS Inc. a national health information exchange, is offering AuditDocs to save health care providers…
(Steinbichler: Plymouth, MI) -- The new COMET L3D is characterized by its reliable electronics and high quality of industrial optics. Equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, the COMET L3D has a fixed triangulation basis that can be used with pre-adjusted lenses. Thanks to the predefined position of…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the European Union's (EU) Smart Grid Coordination Group (SG-CG) jointly announced their intention to work together on smart grid standards development, emphasizing common goals…
(ACTLean: Lawrenceville, GA) -- ACTLean, the training and coaching arm of Schuh & Co., has introduced the Lean 101 Never Ending Card simulation game to clarify and visualize the effect of lean principles. The game is available for free download on the ACTLean website.
The goal
The Lean 101…
(The RFID Network: Mountain View, CA) -- The RFID Network announces a new TV series focused on how radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is transforming our world. The RFID Network, a 30-minute educational television program, examines the exponentially expanding “Internet-of-Things…
(Perceptron: Plymouth, MI) -- Perceptron Inc. has announced that its customer, ROTHENBERGER USA, a manufacturer and marketer of pipe tool technology headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, launched its new ROSCOPE 500 handheld video-inspection device into the U.S. market.
The ROSCOPE 500 is the…
(Taylor and Francis: Florence, KY) -- Distribution-free resampling methods such as permutation tests, decision trees, and the bootstrap are used in virtually every research area. The book, A Practitioner’s Guide to Resampling for Data Analysis, Data Mining, and Modeling, by Phillip L. Good (…
(MTec: Sao Paulo, Brazil) -- MTec Materials Technology, an innovative industrial solutions company, has created Purisolv, a recyclable degreasing solvent extracted from cashew nuts that is now available to U.S. metal finishing, plastics, ceramics, printing, electronics, and automotive repair…
(Sokkia: Olathe, KS) -- Sokkia Corp. has released the NET-AX series of automated total stations in North and South America. The series includes NET05AX for 0.5 in. angle accuracy and NET1AX for 1 in. angle accuracy.
“The new series offers the highest level of precision and automation…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ), the nonprofit organization that administers the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, is disappointed in a U.S. Senate subcommittee vote to withdraw funding for the successful program in the proposed 2012 federal budget.
The…
(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- With the launch of version 4.7 of TubeInspect, an optical tube-measuring system from AICON, a leading provider of optical camera-based 3-D measurement systems, operators will be able to simulate the bending process considering individual correction values, and to…
(RadSite: Annapolis, MD) -- RadSite, a national leader in promoting operational excellence in imaging, has expanded its quality benchmarking activities for radiology and imaging practices to offer a formal accreditation program. The RadSite Accreditation Program builds upon the existing…
(Toyota: Torrance, CA) -- Addressing the Los Angeles Motor Press Guild at the Toyota U.S.A. Automobile Museum, Steve St. Angelo, the executive vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing, confirmed that Toyota’s North American production has returned to 100 percent.
The…
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, the leading provider of real-time quality control software solutions, announced that Doug Fair, vice president of technical services, will speak this week at Quality Expo in Chicago. Fair will present “Deploying a Global Quality System,”…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Lean Six Sigma could help reduce the soaring national debt but faces some key challenges in government implementations, according to a new survey by the American Society for Quality (ASQ), the leading global network of quality experts. The biggest obstacle, survey…
