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(Creaform: Lévis, Québec) -- Creaform, developer, manufacturer, and marketer of portable 3-D measurement technologies, has introduced the latest improvement to its inspection systems: C-Link functionality.
Through C-Link, it is possible to network up to four C-Tracks and operate them…
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- The Food Safety Exchange Conference, sponsored by Mettler-Toledo, will be June 26–27, 2012, in Chicago at the Crowne Plaza. This no-cost, two-day educational conference will bring together food processors, retailers, auditors, standards bodies, trade organizations…
(CEESI: Nunn, CO) -- The Colorado Engineering Experiment Station (CEESI) invites participants to the Ultrasonic Meter User’s Workshop, scheduled for June 18–19, 2012, in Colorado Springs. This year’s event marks an opportunity for users to improve their knowledge and use of ultrasonic meters. Five…
Quality management, if we’ve learned anything, is a central factor in any manufacturing organization. What’s most compelling is the evolution during the past decade of our perception of quality management. Once thought to be a compartmentalized system in an organization’s infrastructure, quality…
“Everyone, take your order slips and move the shipment to the left,” says Nelson Repenning, a professor of systems dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. “Factories, brew beer.”
With that, six groups of high-achieving managers from a major multinational firm, ensconced in MIT’s Building…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Fear of change—we all experience it. Some accept change immediately, some gradually adapt, while others may never get there. Whether it’s poor leadership, the inability to change, or pure ego, this book explores this perplexing commitment to inefficiency.…
It stands to reason that pharmaceutical companies in compliance trouble also have problems with their deviation management and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) systems. After all, maintaining a good compliance profile as well as an efficient operation requires the ability to detect problems…
(Teledyne DALSA: Waterloo, ON) -- Teledyne DALSA, designer and manufacturer of digital imaging solutions and machine vision technology, will demonstrate its commitment to the new Camera Link HS (CLHS) standard by showcasing CLHS versions of its Falcon2 camera and Xcelera PX8 frame grabber at the…
(Delcam: Salt Lake City) -- Delcam will demonstrate the 2012 release of its PowerINSPECT inspection software at the 2012 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), in New Orleans, held July 16–20, 2012. The new version includes a number of extra options to make inspection easier, plus the…
(Eagle: Tampa, FL) -- Eagle Product Inspection has launched the Eagle Pack 400 HC, an energy-efficient X-ray inspection system designed for easy and efficient cleaning in the harsh wash-down environments of the packaged meat, poultry, and dairy industries, where daily sanitization of equipment is…
(QuantumVision: Roswell, GA) -- The Hammerhead 3-D machine vision system from QuantumVision Corp., which designs, manufactures, and implements custom machine vision solutions, provides stereo vision without multiple cameras. The Hammerhead measures 6 in. × 2.37 in. × 1.4 in. and includes two image…
(InterTech: Skokie IL) -- InterTech Development Co., designer and manufacturer of solutions for leak testing, functional testing, and test centric assembly, designed the M1075 leak tester, an in-line solution that permits dry air tests on both the water and the oil sides of an engine block at the…
A manager who wishes to communicate effectively must receive and impart reliable and honest input by observing, questioning, and opening up productive two-way dialogue. Feedback is a major part of the total communication process that requires presenting ideas, thoughts, and messages clearly and…
Perhaps I am overendowed with self-confidence; or perhaps nothing more than plain old hubris. Then again, maybe some things are just as obvious as they seem to me. Take 5S, for instance. Really? There’s a place for everything and everything in its place. If you got it out, you put it back.
Six…
(Creaform: Lévis, Québec) -- Creaform, developer, manufacturer, and marketer of portable 3-D measurement technologies, will unveil its new lineup of MetraSCAN 3D optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM) scanners. The scanners are the most accurate scanning solutions on the market, whether in the…
(Olympus: Center Valley, PA) -- With the stateside release of its newest opto-digital micro-imaging and metrology solution, Olympus is bringing the future of technology to today’s inspection, test, and quality control facilities. The DSX Series imaging system delivers a completely new type of…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- In response to a growing need to establish and protect intellectual property, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) will present “Pathways to Innovation: Intellectual Property Rights in Additive Manufacturing” at its RAPID 2012 Conference & Exposition on Thurs.,…
(AME: Rockford, IL) -- Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (AME) has updated its “Fixturing Solutions” CD. Included is a brief fixturing overview and video along with detailed information about AME’s fixturing products and services, links to complete online catalogs, CAD models, company overview…
(BSI: Reston VA) -- Just one year ago, BSI America Professional Services introduced its Supply Chain Risk Exposure Evaluation Network (SCREEN), a web-based intelligence tool for supply chain security. Since then, SCREEN has been adopted by leading enterprises in the high-tech, retail, and…
(Accenture: Dublin, Ireland) -- Business process management (BPM) is a powerful discipline for driving efficiency and innovation as well as achieving strategic imperatives. When you develop a business strategy that is supported by a pragmatic application of BPM, your processes become important…
Sure, the Italians have better food, the English richer royal culture and accents, and French women don’t get fat, but we in America regulate medical devices better, don’t we? Not so fast, says the European Union.
They apparently aren’t happy that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is writing…
Located in Victor, New York, Surmotech is a full-service electronics contract manufacturer. For more than 20 years the company has provided a complete range of manufacturing, design, and engineering services to the military, medical, industrial, and telecommunications industries and consumer…
Long ago, W. Edwards Deming warned us about the use of what he called “arbitrary numerical goals.” Targets are another name for these. They are so commonplace that governments, service, and manufacturing organizations all use them. Targets have become accepted in all organizations, but this…
(Mahr: Providence, RI) -- In the world of high-precision metrology, all parts are elastic, which means they will deform to some extent under applied force, even if only by a few millionths of an inch. But certain parts, like thin-walled bearing rings, deform much more readily than others, to the…
(WASP: Plano, TX) -- KDL Pathology specializes in dermatopathology and is trusted by physicians, patients, and other laboratories for the most accurate and reliable pathology services. Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, KDL has expertise in inflammatory and neoplastic skin disorders, ocular disease,…