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(Laser Design Inc.: Minneapolis) -- Laser Design Inc., a leading supplier of 3-D laser scanning for more than 30 years, introduced a new high-precision line of 3-D scanners, the Surveyor ZS-Series. It is based on the Spectrum coordinate measuring machine (CMM) platform from Carl…
(BSI: Reston, VA) -- Every four days there is a terrorist attack on the global supply chain. Criminal syndicates and smugglers exploit gaps in the supply chain to steal and engage in illicit trade. Governments worldwide are asking businesses to apply higher levels of diligence to suppliers’…
(InnovMetric: Québec City, Canada) -- A talisman is “an object considered to possess magical powers,” and InnovMetric Software has announced that PolyWorks V. 12 will offer a talisman of its own for users of laser-scanning and tactile-probing devices who need to operate 3-D metrology hardware away…
(NSAI: Dublin, Ireland) -- The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) is teaming up with the Kelmac Group to hold a quality management system (QMS) auditor/lead auditor training course certified by the International Register for Certified Auditors (IRCA) and based on the International…
(Renishaw: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Mike Sullivan founded Future Advanced Manufacture Ltd. (Future AM) 30 years ago and realized immediately that competing on price was not the way forward. “There’s always a ‘Fred in the shed’ down the road who will offer to do any job cheaper,” he…
(Siemens: Plano, TX, and Hanover, Germany) -- Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a global provider of product life-cycle management (PLM) software and services, has launched the Teamcenter Mobility mobile-device application (app) for instantly…
(Boothroyd Dewhurst: Wakefield, RI) -- Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc. will host the 26th annual International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) to be held June 13–15, 2011, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island. This year’s theme is “Manufacture Success: Meeting the…
(Olympus NDT: Waltham, MA) -- Olympus NDT Inc. announces the launch of its instrument rental program in the United States. Olympus NDT, a global leader in the manufacture of nondestructive testing equipment, now has available an extensive inventory of rental equipment that includes flaw…
(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Sales of machine vision components and systems in North America soared 54 percent in 2010 to nearly $1.8 billion, according to new figures released by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the world’s largest machine vision trade group.
The AIA “Quarterly Machine Vision…
(PEX: London) -- The Process Excellence Network (PEX) has united a group of top business process excellence (BPE) professionals from around the United States to help deliver a focused and highly relevant event. Following months of industry research, the Business Process Excellence for Telecoms and…
(Harrington Institute Inc: Los Gatos, CA) -- The Harrington Best TQM Thesis Award was presented this year to Dr. Vinod Prabhu at the opening ceremony of the Quality Congress 2011 for his paper “Six Sigma Report on Reduction of Medication Delivery Turnaround Time for Newly Admitted In-Patients.”…
(SICK: Minneapolis) -- SICK, a global leader in manufacturing sensors, safety systems, machine vision, and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, has launched the Inspector Viewer. The Viewer is a compact, real-time, touch-screen monitor that provides advanced…
(Thermo Fisher: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, notes that its FT-IR spectrometer instrumentation can provide scientists with increased confidence in their results during quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) testing. This means they…
(Smarter Solutions Inc.: Austin, TX) -- There’s a lot of discussion about the applicability of traditional capability metrics: Cp, Cpk, Pp, and Ppk. Although these metrics are popular in some areas, not everyone truly understands what the metric is trying to communicate about the process. In…
(HEIDENHAIN: Schaumburg, IL) -- HEIDENHAIN Corp. has now coupled its ACANTO absolute length gauge with the established and versatile ND 2100G GAGE-CHEK metrology readouts.
This gauging package is a great solution for many fixed gauging applications. The ACANTO absolute length gauge with EnDat 2…
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo Inc. has introduced Quantos Q2 and QL2 powder- and liquid-dispensing auxiliary modules that can be added to any 0.1 mg or 0.01 mg XP Excellence Series analytical balance. The addition of automated powder- and liquid-dispensing functionality to…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time used an apparatus that relies on the “noise” of jiggling electrons to make highly accurate measurements of the Boltzmann constant, an important value for many scientific…
When it comes to packaged fish or meat, it’s nearly impossible to distinguish between fresh goods and their inedible counterparts. Researchers have now developed a sensor film that can be integrated into the package itself, where it takes over the role of quality control. If the food has spoiled,…
(NeoMetrix: Lake Mary, FL) -- Air Mobile Ministries (AMM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that does disaster relief all around the world. Since its inception in 1978, AMM has traveled around the world many times bringing medical supplies, food, clothing, and now the Air Mobile Rescuer water…
(ACPE: Tampa, FL) -- The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) and Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health in Philadelphia are teaming up to offer an important new advanced degree aimed at physicians who want to improve the quality of health care.
The degree—a master…
(MIT: MA) -- At a time when the Internet puts an untold amount of information at anyone’s fingertips, automated scientific experiments churn out data faster than researchers can keep up with it, and communications networks can include billions of people, even the simplest computational tasks…
(ANSI: New York) -- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a pet in your household can have a positive impact on your health by lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels; increasing exercise, outdoor activity, and socialization; and decreasing…
(ISO: Geneva, Switzerland) -- A free tutorial on the improved second edition of ISO/IEC 17021:2011, the international standard that sets new requirements for auditing management systems and for auditor competence, is now available on the ISO website.
The purpose of ISO/IEC 17021 is to increase…
(LUXO: Elmsford,, NY) -- Luxo extends its industry-leading microscope line with a new series of variable inclination position (VIP) microscopes. Luxo’s new VIP series features an extended magnification range, 23 mm (.90 in.) optics system with a 186 mm (7.32 in.) working distance (0.5X lens,…
(SAE: Troy, MI) -- James David Power III, founder of J. D. Power and Associates, will be honored at the 2011 SAE World Congress. Power will receive the first SAE International Subir Chowdhury Medal of Quality Leadership award to recognize his significant contributions affecting customer…
