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(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Gold Mine: a Novel of Lean Turnaround (Lean Enterprise Institute, 2005), a popular lean business novel about a failing company that survives by adopting lean manufacturing, is now available as an audio book.
Written by Freddy and Michael Ballé, the novel deftly…
(Reverseengineering.com: La Jolla, California) -- Reverseengineering.com has announced that its 2011 CAD-integrated software plug-in is now available. Each plug-in has been optimized for the 64-bit operating system, and reverse-engineering users will realize a direct improvement in time and…
(Factory Strategies Group: Morro Bay, CA) -- Factory Strategies Group has released its new Lean Enterprise Strategy Kit to support the strategic planning efforts at organizations and smaller companies. The kit brings together the best of traditional SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and…
(Creaform: Lévis, Quebec) -- Creaform, a technology company offering 3-D engineering services and innovative 3-D scanners, has acquired Genicad, a leading Québec City company specializing in engineering, digital and mechanical design, project management, and technical drawing. The acquisition…
(InfinityQS International: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, a provider of statistical process control (SPC) software, has released ProFicient 4.3, the latest upgrade to its real-time quality control solution. The new version delivers powerful cost analysis, data integration, and…
(GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies: Billerica, MA) -- The 3D Phase Measurement is a game-changing measurement technique that increases 3-D accuracy and productivity in aerospace and rotating equipment applications. Paired with the world-class XLG3 Video Borescope, this new technology…
(PPT Vision: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION’s newly released IMPACT M-Series Embedded Vision System delivers increased precision and speed to automated inspection, guidance. and identification production processes.
Featuring up to four asynchronously triggered cameras that run on a single…
In Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance (Pfeiffer, 2010), authors Darleen DeRosa and Richard Lepsinger share findings from their 2008 global research study. They wanted to know what factors made some virtual teams excel while so many dissolved in failure…
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- September U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $399.76 million, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and the The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the United…
(Alliance Scale Inc.: Canton, MA) -- A line of Class F cast-iron grip handle weights, which are NIST-traceable for the calibration and field testing of a wide range of scales, has been introduced by Alliance Scale Inc.
Alliance grip handle weights are Class F cast-iron painted, density 7.2 for…
(Pilgrim Software Inc.: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Software Inc., a global provider of enterprise risk, compliance, and quality management (ERCQM) software solutions, has announced the availability of SmartSolve 9, the latest and most enhanced version of its integrated process automation platform…
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo has launched the GTP—Good Titration Practice program—to establish reliable and risk-free titration in practice.
GTP covers the entire life cycle of a titration system. Reliable titration starts long before daily routines in the laboratory. A…
(i-nexus: Coventry, UK) -- Are you looking for ways to ensure your business strategies are not just planned, but cascaded and executed effectively? Join Paul Docherty, CEO of i-nexus and expert on strategy execution, the emerging discipline of business execution, as he shares how leading…
The term “never events” refers to particularly shocking medical errors that should never occur (e.g., wrong-site, wrong-patient, wrong-procedure surgeries). There are other terms used in official capacities for such errors, but none have captured the nation’s attention or perhaps done more toward…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The growing demand for online courses and supporting technology has resulted in structural and functional challenges for universities and colleges. These changes have led many distance-education providers to recognize the value of understanding the fundamental…
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Customer satisfaction dropped for several nondurables, while tobacco products rebounded from last year’s lows, according to a report released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The report covers customer satisfaction with beer, soft drinks, tobacco, and…
(Morehead: Charlotte, NC) -- Morehead, the human-capital research firm, will host a webinar titled “Secrets of a Winning Healthcare Organization.” The free hour-long webinar will be broadcast on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 at 1 p.m. EST.
Rod Wilkes, senior vice president of Morehead’s Client…
(ISPE: Tampla, FL) -- ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, has announced the release of GAMP Good Practice Guide: Calibration Management, Second Edition, which coincided with the start of the 2010 ISPE Annual Meeting in…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) --The American Society for Quality (ASQ), the world’s largest network of quality resources and experts, is refreshing its brand to better reflect and highlight the difference quality makes in the world and the global scope of its membership. The new brand strategy, which includes…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has announced the appointment of seven executive committee members for the AeroDef Manufacturing Exposition and Conference, to be held April 5–7, 2011, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
With pressure…
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a provider of global food safety certifications, has launched an online tool to help food companies assess their readiness for certification to standards benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). NSF International offers a free, 21-question…
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a provider of global food safety certifications, has launched an online tool to help food companies assess their readiness for certification to standards benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). NSF International offers a free, 21-question…
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- A public-private organization will provide produce growers and packagers with fundamental, on-farm food safety knowledge, in advance of a proposed produce safety regulation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural…
(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- With DuraMax, Carl Zeiss offers a compact 3-D coordinate measuring machine (CMM). DuraMax Gear marks the evolution of DuraMax into a shop-floor gear-wheel measuring machine. “This enables us to fulfill the requests of many customers and introduce gear-wheel…
(Boulder Imaging: Louisville, CO) -- Boulder Imaging Inc. highlighted its new Vision Inspector line of high-performance machine vision systems last week at FABTECH in Atlanta. Vision Inspector systems—the Beacon, Benchmark, and Guardian—are designed to monitor high-speed manufacturing machines and…
