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(AMT: McLean, VA) -- The U.S. manufacturing technology consumption for February 2010 totaled $163.96 million, according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U…
(Camstar: Charlotte, NC) -- Medical device companies are operating in a challenging environment of continuously innovating and launching new products while reducing product and process variability and risk and simultaneously complying with stringent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.…
(DMSC Inc.: Arlington, TX) -- A training workshop on the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS) is scheduled for the week of April 19–22. This workshop will use the new DMIS 5.2 as well as the I++ Dimensional Measurement Equipment (DME) Specification.
Training classroom
This DMIS 5.2/…
(Emerson Process Management: Austin, TX) -- Emerson Process Management, a global business of Emerson, applauds the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) unanimous vote to certify WirelessHART technology as the first global standard for wireless communications for industrial process…
(ANSI: Washington) -- Only three weeks remain to submit an entry to the 2010 U.S. Celebration of World Accreditation Day paper competition launched by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Paper submissions are due by April 30.
ANSI invites all interested stakeholders to…
(PTI Inspection Systems: Tuckahoe, NY) -- Seal-Sensor is the newest addition to PTI’s Seal-Scan line of noncontact ultrasound inspection systems.
“Seal-Sensor technology can be used in both off-line and online applications to inspect pouch seals and produce real-time results,” says Tony…
(IQMS: Paso Robles, CA) -- IQMS, an innovator in the design and development of extended enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, recently announced the release of its Quality Audit Module, the most recent addition to the IQMS EnterpriseIQ suite of products. Using the new Quality Audit Module,…
(TÜV SÜD: Munich) -- The European market is being flooded with increasing numbers of counterfeit products. These fakes not only cause financial losses for manufacturers, but also generate major safety problems for consumers when statutory safety tests are sidestepped in their production. TÜV SÜD…
(Henry Ford Health System: Detroit) -- Looking to shake up your industry, transform your medical center, and recharge your organization?
A two-day educational symposium, “Going Radical: Creating the Hospital of the Future,” to be held May 25–27, may hold the key to revitalization.
Henry Ford…
(Accelper Consulting: Schaumburg, IL) -- Accelper Consulting presented one of the world’s largest Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) certification and training events at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) School of Applied Technology in Wheaton, Illinois, during March 26–27.
What began with…
(StevenFalk.org: Sarasota, FL) -- Former Stanford Tennis USPTA Pro, author, and Six Sigma Champion Steven Falk wrote Six Sigma Tennis (World Sports Media Group, 2010) upon returning to Stanford Tennis after recovering from a traumatic brain injury. The goal of the book is to share his successful…
(PhoCusWright: Sherman, CT) -- Priceline.com recently announced that its practice of proactively sending post-stay surveys to every Priceline hotel customer has enabled the hotel reservation service to amass more than 2.5 million hotel guest reviews. The announcement follows the publication of the…
(PCS Press, Vancover, WA) -- Fundamental Principles of Lean Manufacturing (PCS Press and Enna Products Corp., 2009) is the latest discovered and newly translated book by Shigeo Shingo. Shingo provides total access to the fundamentals of improving any process. He directs the reader toward the path…
(QI Macros: Denver) -- KnowWare International Inc., developers of the QI Macros Lean Six Sigma SPC Software for Excel, will showcase the product at the Quality Expo South Tradeshow in Charlotte, North Carolina, April 28–29.
Statistical process control (SPC) software is a key ingredient in…
(Advantest Corp.: Santa Clara, CA) -- Advantest Corp. announces that it has successfully commercialized a new 3-D imaging analysis system, the TAS7000, which utilizes Advantest’s proprietary terahertz wave technology to perform nondestructive scans of targeted sample materials and deliver 3-D…
(GMT: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) -- Guindy Machine Tools (GMT) has expanded its coordinate measuring machine (CMM) product range by introducing the new GRANO 12 20 10 for larger components. GRANO 12 20 10 has a measurement volume of 1,200 × 2,000 × 1,000 mm. Its volumetric measurement uncertainty…
(ISO: Geneva) -- With changing standards of living, the body dimensions of people have been increasing in many countries over the last few decades. To ensure that clothing, workplaces, transportation, homes, and recreational activities match today’s body sizes comfortably and safely, the…
(NETZSCH Group: Germany) -- The newly developed Netzsch TMA 402 Hyperion is a thermomechanical analyzer that accommodates specimens up to 30 mm long and thermomechanical properties can be investigated under a force of up to three newtons. A built-in force sensor ensures that forces can be reliably…
(Veeco Instruments Inc.: Plainview, NY) -- Veeco Instruments Inc. announces the ContourGT surface metrology product family. Veeco’s 10th generation of precision, noncontact, 3-D optical surface profilers delivers up to 10 times the capacity and throughput improvements over other systems on…
(E Instruments International LLC: Langhorne, PA) -- The new Multical 2500 Secondary Standard Precision Calibrator is an exceedingly accurate, full-featured temperature, pressure, and DC calibrator. Its uses are intended for research and development, metrology, manufacturing, and calibration lab…
(Northwest Analytical Inc.: Portland, OR) -- Northwest Analytical Inc. (NWA) introduces the next generation of quality analytics with NWA Quality Analyst v. 6.2 software. This version update provides improved performance, new tools for breaking down data, and two new companion modules—multivariate…
This new book by authors Bunji Tozawa and Norman Bodek, How to Do Kaizen: A new path to innovation (PCS Press, 2010), explains kaizen, the Japanese method of improvement that works from the ground up and on a continuous basis. It directly involves the ideas of those who experience problems first…
(Taylor Hobson: Chicago) -- Taylor Hobson, a global provider of ultra-precision measurement instrumentation, has introduced the Talysurf CCI SunStar coherence correlation interferometer that merges world-leading noncontact dimensional measurement capability with advanced thin and thick film…
(Extech Instruments: Waltham, MA) -- Extech Instruments, makers of the leading hand-held test and measurement tools, introduces the new EX845, a 1,000 A AC/DC CAT IV clamp meter with new METERLiNK technology and a built-in infrared thermometer.
Introducing METERLiNK
METERLiNK is an exclusive…
(Rapid News Publications: Tattenhall, UK) -- The organizer of MM Live UK 2010—the micro, precision, and nano manufacturing event for the United Kingdom and European micro manufacturing industry—is has announced the 2010 call for papers.
The conference will again be held at the prestigious and…
