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(Olympus) -- Olympus will put its expertise in industrial microscopes, videoscopes, and imaging devices on full display in Booth E-5291 at IMTS 2012 from September 10-15. In-booth talks from a variety of speakers will review topics in non-destructive testing, including visual inspection and motion…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Through the use of quality improvement initiatives, the city of Milwaukee is improving services and increasing efficiencies citywide.
From boosting the number of children immunized from 45 percent to 78 percent, to reducing the number of worker compensation claims from 3,097 to…
(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- SAE International’s Americas Aerospace Quality Standards Committee has completed Standard AS9003—“Inspection and Test Quality Systems—Requirements for Aviation, Space, and Defense Organization,” and it is now available for purchase.
This quality standard is designed for…
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal has added a MarConnect Integrated Wireless data transmission system to its family of MarCator Digital Indicators at prices that compete with typical wired systems. Low-power data transmission technology has allowed the transmitter to be built into the…
(5SToday) -- 5SToday.com has announced the addition of the 5S Education Center to its website. The Education Center is a comprehensive collection of information about 5S, Lean Manufacturing, and product information, and covers a wide range of topics, from “What is 5S?” to “Total Quality Management…
(Exact Metrology: Cincinnati) -- Exact Metrology Inc., a provider of full-service measurement solutions, is hosting an open house on Oct. 25, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at its facility near Milwaukee.
Located at 20515 Industry Ave in Brookfield, Wisconsin, this facility, which opened in July…
Whereas “big data” will make organizations smarter, open data will be far more consequential for increasing revenue and business value, according to Gartner Inc.
“Big data is a topic of growing interest for many business and IT leaders, and there is little doubt that it creates business value by…
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc. and Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology LLC announced today they will share adjacent exhibit space and demonstrate a network of shared metrology solutions at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, Sept. 10-15, 2012. This marks…
(Sunnen Products: St. Louis, MO) -- Sunnen Products will rev up your inner gearhead at IMTS by exhibiting the world’s smallest, fully functional production V8 engine at booth N-7400, where machines similar to those used to make the Conley V8 will be displayed.
Booth highlights include: • Gary…
(AMT: McClean, VA) -- June U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $462.95 million, according to The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) program, was down 0.6 percent from May and…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program is building an even better future as a national steward of validated management practices; even better operations, systems, and processes for the thousands of organizations that have adopted Baldrige; and even better…
(Qualitest: Fort Lauderdale, FL) -- Qualitest offers an attractive range of top-quality portable and tabletop inverted metallurgical microscopes to complement metallography labs. The portable range offered in both optical and digital configurations provide ultimate flexibility for in-situ analysis…
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo, a leader in the research and development of products and services in the precision instrument industry, has announced an upcoming webinar with special guest presenter Gregory P. Martin, the president of Complectors Consulting and an industry expert…
(Industrial Scientific: Pittsburgh) -- Industrial Scientific, a global leader in gas detection as a service, announced that the recent and continued growth of the company’s portable gas detection business has led to more than 40 job openings being posted.
The open positions, many of which are at…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) will be playing an integral role in the new National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) announced on Aug. 16, 2012, by the U.S. Department of Commerce and Department of Defense in Youngstown, Ohio.
The $30 million…
(Trimble: Sunnyvale, CA) -- Trimble has introduced the Spectra Precision DR400 DigiRod, a combination productivity tool that eliminates the need for grade rods when checking grades with a rotating laser. The combination of a laser receiver with digital readout, laser distance meter, and built-in…
(Minerals Technologies: Bethlehem, PA) -- Minerals Technologies Inc. has introduced a fourth-generation Lacam laser measurement system for use in the worldwide steel industry that is 17 times faster than the previous version. This new technology provides the fastest and most accurate laser scanning…
(TAKE Solutions: Princeton, NJ) -- TAKE Solutions, a leader in the supply chain management (SCM) and life sciences domains, has released a new version of OneSCM, a multi-enterprise collaboration suite for managing extended supply chain operations. The latest version introduces tight integration for…
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Berkeley, CA) -- A long-time staple of science fiction is the tractor beam, a technology in which light is used to move massive objects—recall the tractor beam in the movie Star Wars that captured the Millennium Falcon and pulled it into the Death Star.…
(Robert Half: Menlo Park, CA) -- For workers, “show me the way” can be just as important as “show me the money,” suggests new research from Accountemps, the world’s largest specialized temporary staffing company for accounting, finance, and bookkeeping professionals. In the survey, more than half (…
(Guidon Performance Solutions: Phoenix) -- According to an article in the American Medical News journal, 150 hospitals in the United States have seen reduced readmission rates, improved emergency care, and better adherence to care standards due to involvement in the Hospital Quality Network.…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- At the September 2012 International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) and eight software vendors will demonstrate standards-based workflow of manufacturing quality data. The emerging standard, Quality…
(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, a global leader in the industrial measurement of color, light, and 3D shape, has launched in the United States the ColorScoutA3+ XY Table for the digital imaging and graphic arts market.
The ColorScoutA3+ enables accurate, efficient…
(Anver Corp.: Hudson, MA) -- A new, self-contained vacuum-operated inspection station that grips heavy enclosures from the sides and lets operators fully inspect the front, back, top, bottom, and inside is being introduced by Anver Corp.
The Vacuum-Operated Inspection Station lets operators pick…
(ISO: Geneva) -- Anyone who has received an inaccurate or late bill for gas, electricity, water, or telephone services can understand why billing is one of the main sources of customer complaints against utilities. A new ISO standard provides solutions by giving recommendations for billing…
