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Most pharmaceutical companies have an internal current good manufacturing practices’ (CGMP) auditing program administered at the site and corporate levels of the organization. Auditors are typically part of the quality assurance or regulatory compliance function, and the usual approach is to…
(AMA: New York City) -- Learn to position yourself as a valued insider even if you do your best thinking outside the conference room. While you may not associate being an introvert with a path to success as a manager, the American Management Association (AMA) is offering the webinar, “How to Be a…
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal will be featuring the new option package for their well-known MarForm MMQ 200 Formtester at Design & Manufacturing South, March 16–17, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Mahr Federal will occupy booth No. 1021.
The new…
(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. has announced a new option to deliver its VisionView operator interface to third-party CE panels. VisionView CE software can now be licensed and installed directly onto Rockwell and Siemens CE panels, allowing end-users to use existing equipment and…
(Pinpoint Laser Systems Inc.: Peabody, MA) -- The 4-Axis Precision Mount moves the Microgage laser in four axes—vertical and horizontal, as well as pitch and yaw—to simplify machinery and equipment alignment tasks. The laser beam can be positioned to within 0.001 of an inch and is ideal for…
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- Attendees of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering’s (ISPE) 2011 Tampa Conference on Applying Solutions to Emerging Industry Challenges will have the chance to learn firsthand about the implications of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) newly updated “…
(Hexagon AB: Stockholm, Sweden) -- Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of 3-D solutions to design, measure, and position objects, and to process and present data, will host its inaugural international conference, Hexagon 2011, June 6–9 at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort in Orlando,…
Anyone sitting in the manager’s chair these days can speak to sleepless nights devising imaginative, effective ways to keep programs on track and staff motivated and productive. While corporate leadership across all markets trims the ranks due to a chronically ill economy (of course, distributing…
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new sampling device that could prevent thousands of people worldwide from dying of pneumonia each year.
Called PneumoniaCheck, the device created at Georgia Tech, is a solution to the problem of diagnosing pneumonia, which is a…
(ISO 9000 Conference: Pittsburgh, PA) -- Two great events, the ISO 9000 Conference and the International Lean Six Sigma Conference, will be at one location—the Grand Hyatt Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, on March 13 through 17.
ISO 9000 Conference—“Dramatic Changes to ISO 9001”
This year, the…
Surveylab, a leading provider of mobile geographic information systems (GIS), recently launched a new 3-D modeling capability for its ikeGPS satellite system. ikeGPS satellite system enables the user to geo-tag an image of any distant object, even at a distance of 1,000 meters. The ikeGPS system…
(Dorsey Metrology International: Poughkeepsie, NY) -- If you’re in the market for a snap gauge, one of the choices is whether or not to buy overseas.
Purchasing from overseas can often mean a longer wait for product delivery. The alternative is to locate a reputable manufacturer in the United…
(Newton Research Labs: Renton, WA) -- A new tool has entered the industry, solving a problem that has vexed nuclear power utility operators for many years: How do you precisely measure underwater the internals of a nuclear reactor?
Newton Research Labs, a manufacturer of machine vision,…
(Leica Microsystems: Wetzlar, Germany) -- Leica Microsystems and Besançon, France-based Digital Surf announced the signature of an agreement whereby Leica Map surface imaging and metrology software based upon Digital Surf’s Mountains Technology will be used with the Leica Application Suite (LAS)…
(Leica Microsystems: Wetzlar, Germany) -- Leica Microsystems and Besançon, France-based Digital Surf announced the signature of an agreement whereby Leica Map surface imaging and metrology software based upon Digital Surf’s Mountains Technology will be used with the Leica Application Suite (LAS)…
(ATS RheoSystems: Bordentown, NJ) -- The Merlin Viscometer is a high-performance rotational viscometer capable of both steady shear and yield stress testing in a rugged, compact footprint.
Designed for performing both routine rheological tests such as single-point viscosity checks for quality…
One may ask, “What does a taco have to do with quality?” Ask Taco Bell’s president Greg Creed, and I’m sure he will tell you a lot. On Jan. 19, a lawsuit was filed against Taco Bell claiming the company’s beef is only 35 percent ground beef and 65 percent other ingredients, such as binders,…
It takes songbirds and baseball pitchers thousands of repetitions—a choreography of many muscle movements—to develop an irresistible trill or a killer slider. Now, scientists have discovered that the male Bengalese finch uses a simple mental computation and an uncanny memory to create its near-…
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast of the United States, leaving in its wake an unprecedented loss of life and property damage. Among the critical infrastructure the storm affected was the levee system that controls the Mississippi River’s flow around the city of New…
(The Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society, the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, has announced its call for papers in anticipation of the 2011 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC). The 27th annual…
(ISO: Geneva, Switzerland) -- The International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) just-published second edition of ISO/IEC 17021 sets new requirements for auditing management systems and for auditor competence in order to increase the value of management system certification to public and…
(SAE International: Warrendale, PA) -- From a modest beginning in a handful of classrooms in 1991, SAE International’s award-winning, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education program, A World in Motion (AWIM), celebrates its 20th anniversary, having touched the lives of…
(INUS Technology: Seoul, South Korea) INUS Technology has announced that several top-tier 3-D scanner manufacturers have teamed up to offer Rapidform software with their 3-D scanning hardware platforms. Combining these systems with state-of-the-art processing software from Rapidform enables…
(Buker Inc.: Antioch, IL) -- Buker Inc. offers a Visual Factory Course for companies on their lean manufacturing journey. The course is a one-day event that defines the basic visual factory blueprint of best-in-class lean manufacturing factories. The course focuses on the visual tools being…
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal has introduced a new version of its successful MMQ 400 series. The MarForm MMQ 400-2 integrates a controller that dramatically increases the speed and resolution of the machine, and allows it to measure surface finish characteristics…
