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(ASQ: Milwaukee) — The vice president in charge of Xerox’s Corporate Lean Six Sigma initiatives and the CEO and co-founder of Zingerman’s community of businesses are among the headliners speaking at the American Society for Quality (ASQ) 2012 Lean and Six Sigma Conference.
The event, which…
(FDANews: Falls Church, VA) -- FDAnews has announced details of its upcoming CAPA is King Virtual Conference: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Assuring Compliance, to be held online Dec., 13, 2011, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. EST.
These days more than two-thirds of all Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
(Lennox Hill Ltd.: London, UK) -- Lennox Hill Ltd. has launched a Competency Testing module to further complement its online isoTracker document control/quality management software. The Competency Testing module is the fourth module that makes up isoTracker and follows a recent addition of SSL…
(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Endress+Hauser, provider of measuring instruments and complete process automation solutions for the industrial process engineering industry, introduces the Promag 53 electromagnetic flow meter with Ethernet/IP connectivity for easy integration with the…
(IS&BCA: Zagreb, Croatia) -- Most of the companies that have implemented ISO 9001 have no idea they can implement ISO/IEC 27001:2005—“Information technology—Security techniques,” this increasingly popular information security standard, with much less effort than they initially anticipate.…
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $606.56 million, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S. Manufacturing…
(Parker Hannifin: Hatfield, PA) -- The Porter Instrument Division of Parker Hannifin, a global provider of motion and control technologies, has unveiled the expanded P-Series variable area flow meter product line, a new range of flow meters that provides significantly greater application…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Building on the success of Mark Graban’s Shingo Prize-winning first edition in 2009, Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement, Second Edition (Productivity Press, 2011), explains how to use the lean management system to…
(JAI: San Jose, CA) -- JAI, manufacturer of high quality, industrial-grade cameras for machine vision, has introduced new GigE Vision versions of its eight-megapixel, industrial-grade, charge coupled device (CCD) camera series. Like the Camera Link versions introduced earlier in the year, the new…
(NEi: Westminster, CA) -- NEi Software, a global leader in finite element analysis (FEA) software, has announced the pre-release of NEi Nastran V10.1. With more than 70 performance and analysis enhancements, this major release enables product-development engineers from a wide variety of industries…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- By and large, cost-effective information technology (IT) management is more about people, personal relationships, and corporate culture than it is about the technology itself. Simply put, IT doesn’t work if you are surrounded by bad people and stupid processes in…
(AMETEK: Paoli, PA) -- Two established leaders in ultraprecision manufacturing—Taylor Hobson and Precitech—both part of the Ultra Precision Technologies Division of AMETEK Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, have combined their expertise in…
(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- The Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the world’s largest machine vision trade group with more than 300 member companies from 30 nations, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Machine Vision Union (CMVU), a recently formed trade association representing…
(Palmer Wahl: Asheville, NC) -- Wahl Instruments Inc. has added a new product line to its test and calibration instruments catalog. Black Body Calibration sources are used for calibration and verification of infrared temperature instruments. Twenty-two different models are available, to suit a…
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) has released Parts 1 and 2 of a new series of good practice guides on product quality lifecycle implementation (PQLI). These guides comprise the official first and second volumes of a planned series of PQLI…
(AQSENSE: Girona, Spain) -- The 3-D Shape Analysis Library (SAL3D) from AQSENSE, provider of tools and technology solutions for in-line and off-line measuring and inspection procedures, is a standard library for range maps and point-cloud acquisition and processing, fully oriented to 3-D machine…
(Worldwide Speakers Group: Alexandria, VA) -- Former U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and three-term governor, Michael O. Leavitt, has proposed a provocative plan to help revive the economy, drive productivity, and spur job creation: biomedical innovation.
In an article co-…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- A must-read for all managers, leaders, and change agents, Performance Hubs: Engaging Teams in Focused Continuous Improvement, by Marc Roberts (CRC Press, 2011), supplies a proven system for engagement that allows teams to use their own data, understand the need…
(SPS: Minneapolis, MN) -- SPS Commerce, a leading provider of on-demand supply-chain management solutions, has unveiled the Retail Universe, an online community that connects members of the retail supply chain, allowing organizations to identify new business partners and expand their e-commerce or…
(Teledyne: Waterloo, ON) -- Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and a global leader in machine vision technology, has introduced its next-generation, user-programmable real-time image processing platform. The Xcelera-CL VX4 and Sapera APF deliver a powerful field-programmable gate…
(Keyence: Osaka, Japan) -- The new VHX-1000 Digital Microscope from Keyence mixes high-performance digital microscopy with precision measurement. The VHX-1000 Series features a 16-bit imaging resolution that makes subtle color differences visible, and optimizes areas that are too dark or too…
(Geomagic: Morrisville, NC) -- Geomagic, the leading provider of 3-D software for creating and inspecting digital models of physical objects, today announced the release of its innovative 3-D imaging products: Geomagic Studio 2012, Geomagic Wrap 2012, Geomagic Qualify 2012, Geomagic Qualify…
(API: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc. (API) is offering new service and technology to the architectural, engineering, construction, and owner community (AEC&O). The director of business development for API, Mitch Schefcik, will lead API’s efforts in converting existing facilities…
(InnovMetric: Québec City, Canada) -- InnovMetric Software Inc., a leading supplier of industrial 3-D metrology software solutions, is proud to unveil the world’s first relational inspection solution with PolyWorks V12. The PolyWorks new relational inspection architecture analyzes every single…
(Delcam: Birmingham, UK) -- Delcam has launched a new website for its PowerINSPECT CAD-based inspection software. The site details the many benefits that have made PowerINSPECT a leading hardware-independent inspection software.
One of the most important factors has been the software’s…
