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(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Customer satisfaction has improved for major household appliances and is at or near all-time highs for personal computers and big-ticket consumer electronics such as televisions, according to a report released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Amid recent…
(Visual Workplace Inc.: Byron Center, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc. has a new buyer’s guide available for do-it-yourself visual controls. This comprehensive catalog details the company’s complete line of lean workplace and 5S visual management solutions, headlined by the Mobile In-House Sign Shop (…
(Bluespring: Cincinnati) -- Bluespring Software, a leading provider of business process innovation (BPI) technology and solutions, has announced that it will expand its Rapid Process Assessment (RPA) service. Bluespring RPA provides organizations with quantitative data to make informed decisions…
(Baumer: Southington, CT) -- With the DSRT strain sensor, Baumer offers a sensor for indirect force measurement that can be used in the packaging industry, engineering, wind energy plants, and many other industrial applications. The DSRT is the smallest strain sensor with the highest resolution (0…
(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- Cognex has announced its next-generation DataMan hand-held industrial ID scanner, the DataMan 8000 Series. The rugged scanner is designed for the factory floor and offers the industry’s most advanced code-reading technology, IDMax, for reading 1-D and 2-D codes…
(Aven: Ann Arbor, MI) -- A high-intensity microscope ring light featuring 72 LED lights and adjustable illumination for any specimen or application has been released by Aven Inc. All electronics are part of the compact, self-contained MC90/50 model design.
Several features make this model…
(nuvoTrace: Las Vegas) -- nuvoTrace, a small business entity, has introduced innovative technology to safely and quickly test packages for leak tightness—down to 7 micron channels. The nondestructive tester developed by the company uses safe, nontoxic tracer gas to determine leak tightness of…
(The Delta Group: Greenville, SC) -- CareChex, a division of The Delta Group specializing in rating the quality of hospital and physician care, has released three new studies that reveal broad disparities between the quality of U.S. health care by state and metro area, and surprising regional…
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- In this webinar series, Cognex will focus on technical topics that showcase the power of machine vision and how to solve inspection applications with advanced techniques and new tools. The webinar will take place Thursday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT. It lasts 30…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Siemens PLM Software’s new NX CMM Inspection Programming application, the latest addition to the NX software part-manufacturing solutions, has become the first inspection programming software application officially certified by the Dimensional Metrology Standards…
(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- A major manufacturer of hydraulic fracturing tools for the oil and gas industry is using NVision’s hand-held laser scanner to increase the performance and life of its products by gaining a clearer picture of erosion patterns. The company previously used ultrasonic sensors…
What is kansei engineering? Editors Mitsuo Nagamachi and Anitawati Mohd Lokman and publisher CRC Press present two books that explore kansei engineering: Innovations of Kansei Engineering defines in detail what kansei is and its role in developing products based on the customer’s feelings, wants,…
(Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Cambridge, MA) -- Every year, the National Forum refuels the tanks of leaders of change, from executives to the front line. The National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, Dec. 5–8, at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida, is the premier “…
(The Boeing Co.: Smithfield, MI) -- The Boeing Co. and the Northrop Grumman Corp. will hold their second joint Global Product Data Interoperability Summit Nov. 8–11 at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos Resort in Chandler, Arizona.
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, the organizers…
(RAND Corp.: Santa Monica, CA) -- When looking for a new physician, patients are often encouraged to select those who are board-certified or who have not made payments on malpractice claims. Yet these characteristics are not always a good predictor of which physicians will provide the highest-…
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The process of reverse engineering has proven infinitely useful for analyzing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) components to duplicate or repair them, or simply improve on their design. A guidebook to the rapid-fire changes in this area, Reverse Engineering:…
The multiwelled microplate has long been a standard tool in biomedical research and diagnostic laboratories but could become a thing of the past, thanks to new electronic biosensing technology developed by a team of microelectronics engineers and biomedical scientists at the Georgia Institute of…
(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended learning support technologies, has introduced its Master Black Belt (MBB) Fall Webcast Series, to occur in October and November. This series of three, free one-hour lectures by…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- Creating a powerhouse in manufacturing workforce development, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and Cleveland-based Tooling University LLC (Tooling U) announced they have signed a definitive agreement for SME to acquire all outstanding shares of Tooling U, a…
(Olympus: Center Valley, PA) -- Olympus, a precision technology provider of innovative solutions in its core business areas of medical and surgical products, life science imaging systems, industrial measurement and imaging instruments, and cameras and audio products, has called for nominations for…
(ANSI: Washington) -- Constituents looking to learn more about the voluntary consensus standards system are encouraged to take a new online course module offered by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI): An Introduction to Standards: Why, where, and how are they developed.
The…
(National Quality Forum: Washington) -- The National Quality Forum (NQF) has opened the application period for its 2011 National Quality Healthcare Award, which recognizes exceptional organizational leadership and innovation to achieve national goals for quality improvement. The 2011 award…
The recently opened Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory (SNAL) provides scientists around the world with a brilliant new tool to understand fundamental properties of atoms and materials at previously unreachable…
(InnovMetric Software: Québec) -- Having been widely accepted in the automotive industry as a critical technology to accelerate product engineering, high-density, noncontact 3-D digitizer sales are moving into new industrial market segments and applications.
With the multiplicity of measurement…
(GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies: Billerica, MA) -- An ultrasonic testing machine from GE Inspection Technologies is helping EUROPIPE maintain its competitive advantage and its technological leadership in manufacturing large-diameter, welded steel pipe. The automated inspection system was…
