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The boys slumped against the wall of the dugout; you could read the despair on their faces. “What’s the point?” mumbled the right fielder. “We’re just going to lose again.” The team was on an eight-game losing streak, with a record of three wins and eight losses, and five games left to play.…
(PerkinElmer: Waltham, MA) -- PerkinElmer Inc., a provider focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, has launched two digital X-ray flat-panel detectors (FPDs) for nondestructive testing (NDT) applications at the ASNT Fall Conference and Quality Testing Show, which is taking…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- Kermit the Frog once declared, “It’s not easy being green.” But SME and Purdue TAP are making it easier for manufacturing professionals to become green workers—one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. work force.
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has…
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is carrying out a survey of existing and potential users of ISO 9001, the global benchmark for quality management, to gather feedback to help decide whether the standard needs further improvement and, if so, what needs…
(A2LA: Frederick, MD) -- The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) announces the expansion of its accreditation activities to encompass special inspection agencies in New York City.
The criteria for special inspection agency accreditation requires agencies to provide…
(Agilent Technologies: Santa Clara, CA) -- Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced the 708-DS Dissolution Apparatus, a quality control instrument that can be configured for manual and automated applications. The new device includes an improved design that minimizes variability and improves…
(AMETEK Inc.: Paoli, PA) -- AMETEK Inc. has acquired Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC, a global provider of weathering test instruments and related testing and consulting services, from Industrial Growth Partners for approximately $159 million in cash.
Atlas is headquartered in Chicago…
Ken Appel is the manager of regulated industries for Veriteq.
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he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its European Union counterparts recently agreed to cooperate on pharmaceutical plant inspections to enable stepped-up enforcement of safety guidelines. These agreements will help…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Researchers are characterizing a new technique as a neat solution to the “needle in a haystack” problem of nanoscale microscopy, but it’s more like using a flashlight to find a coffee table in the dark instead of walking around until you fall over it. In a recently…
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efore Michael Mercer established his consulting company, he accumulated more than 30 years of quality improvement experience at 3M. That experience led him to develop a deep trust in the power of Minitab Statistical Software. He began using one of the earliest mainframe computer versions to…
(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Gold Mine: a Novel of Lean Turnaround (Lean Enterprise Institute, 2005), a popular lean business novel about a failing company that survives by adopting lean manufacturing, is now available as an audio book.
Written by Freddy and Michael Ballé, the novel deftly…
(Reverseengineering.com: La Jolla, California) -- Reverseengineering.com has announced that its 2011 CAD-integrated software plug-in is now available. Each plug-in has been optimized for the 64-bit operating system, and reverse-engineering users will realize a direct improvement in time and…
(Factory Strategies Group: Morro Bay, CA) -- Factory Strategies Group has released its new Lean Enterprise Strategy Kit to support the strategic planning efforts at organizations and smaller companies. The kit brings together the best of traditional SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and…
(Creaform: Lévis, Quebec) -- Creaform, a technology company offering 3-D engineering services and innovative 3-D scanners, has acquired Genicad, a leading Québec City company specializing in engineering, digital and mechanical design, project management, and technical drawing. The acquisition…
(InfinityQS International: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, a provider of statistical process control (SPC) software, has released ProFicient 4.3, the latest upgrade to its real-time quality control solution. The new version delivers powerful cost analysis, data integration, and…
(GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies: Billerica, MA) -- The 3D Phase Measurement is a game-changing measurement technique that increases 3-D accuracy and productivity in aerospace and rotating equipment applications. Paired with the world-class XLG3 Video Borescope, this new technology…
Food safety standards are becoming increasingly stringent. Although government legislation has long been implemented, your customers may be driving an even higher standard of food safety through the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) or Safe Quality Food (SQF) Institute, which require third-…
Bob Kill is president and CEO of Enterprise Minnesota.
For manufacturers that watched their businesses decline as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) opted to transfer their supplier relationships to cheap-labor countries such as China and India, there is now solid evidence that those…
(GSI: Melbourne, FL) -- Geodetic Systems In. (GSI), a global designer and manufacturer of industrial 3-D measurement systems, recently added a new line of V-STARS systems based on its new series of “DynaMo” cameras.
The new “V-STARS/D” systems incorporating the DynaMo retain all the features…
Aerodynamic Trailer Systems Ltd. (ATS) of Auburn, Ohio, has developed a new product that fits on commercial trailer doors to provide a more aerodynamic shape to the rear of the trailer. The object is a “Green Technology” to reduce emissions by improving fuel efficiency of over-the-road trucks. The…
(PPT Vision: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION’s newly released IMPACT M-Series Embedded Vision System delivers increased precision and speed to automated inspection, guidance. and identification production processes.
Featuring up to four asynchronously triggered cameras that run on a single…
(New River Kinematics: Williamsburg, VA) -- New River Kinematics (NRK), a global provider of advanced portable metrology software, has announced the release of Power3 Suite, a comprehensive bundle of software applications providing industry-leading metrology, inspection, surfacing, and reverse-…
(INUS Technology: Seoul) -- INUS Technology Inc. has launched InvisHands, a new tool that automates the process of creating complete CAD models from 3-D scan data. InvisHands offers a new option to anyone in need of accurate reverse engineered models of physical parts. The service allows users of…
(Verisurf Software Inc.: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf has released the fifth generation of its Verisurf X software. With model-based geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) inspection technology at its core, the all-new computer-aided inspection and reverse engineering software, Verisurf X5…
Michelle LaBrosse is the founder of Cheetah Learning
There’s a reason that top-performing executives all over the world have coaches. It’s because good coaching dramatically improves performance.
A study by Metrix Global showed coaching produced a 529-percent return on investment (ROI).…
