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(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- In the past, free-form tubes were in demand primarily from the furniture business for design reasons. These days, demand is generated from all industrial areas. Consequently, more tube benders need measuring systems that take the particular problems of complex…
(Pilgrim Software Inc.: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Software Inc., a provider of enterprise risk, compliance, and quality management software solutions, has partnered with The Winvale Group, a provider of information technology solutions to the United States’ public sector. In conjunction with The…
(LaserLinc: Fairborn, OH) -- LaserLinc is introducing a new option in its proprietary Total Vu software package: customizable reports from Microsoft Excel templates.
For this option, Total Vu users can set up report templates in Microsoft Excel, specifying desired layout features. The user…
(emergn: New York and London) -- emergn, a global professional services and business agility firm, has announced that the company is launching its lean and agile training series, emergnEducation, in North America. After strong success in Europe, emergnEducation will offer a rich curriculum based…
(INUS Technology Inc.: Seoul, South Korea) -- INUS Technology Inc. announces that Rapidform XOR3 is directly compatible with five leading computer-aided design (CAD) software applications. Rapidform was the first 3-D scanning software to feature direct interfaces to CAD, enabling users to scan…
(Advanced Test Equipment Rentals: San Diego, CA) -- The SRM-3006 Selective Radiation Meter is Narda Safety Test Solutions’ second generation, hand-held system for performing narrowband analysis of electromagnetic fields. The SRM-3006 has the ability to provide results of individual emitters and…
(Artel: Orlando, FL) -- It has been said that time is money. In the world of life science research, whether at a research university, in pharmaceutical drug discovery operations, or in high-throughput screening labs, that phrase can be amended to “downtime is money.” With regard to today’s…
When the phrase “social network” comes to mind, people generally think about Facebook or Twitter. Volumes of academic studies have been written on this relatively new phenomenon.
But engineers who design such complex products as automobiles and airplanes have been operating within their own…
During the past six years, the Harrington Institute and its business partners have been involved in community improvement efforts that have produced significant results within the organizations involved. The thrust of the effort in the Orlando, Florida, community involved 25 projects and the…
(UL: Northbrook, IL) -- Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global provider of safety testing and certification, was recently named the exclusive nationally recognized testing laboratory for The EV Project, a groundbreaking study of electric vehicle (EV) charging station infrastructure. The company…
Seventeen years ago, I became the president of my community association. It was a lively organization with scores of activist members who were busy gentrifying an inner city neighborhood. One of my responsibilities was to deliver a monthly speech and conduct a formal meeting with a loud and…
(Modus Cooperandi: Seattle) -- You asked for it, and Modus listened. On April 12 Modus Cooperandi announced the launch of the first personal kanban iPhone application, iKan.
When Modus set out to build it, they decided to focus on a few key features:
Small screen, many tasks—Wanting to make…
(HSM Americas Inc.: New York) -- The world’s greatest thought leaders in the field convene at the World Innovation Forum, June 8–9, at the Nokia Theatre in New York City, to provide actionable insights into the central issues at the heart of innovation today—marketing, Web 2.0, health care, social…
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Rockville, MD) -- Improvements in patient safety continue to lag, according to the “2009 National Healthcare Quality Report” and the “2009 National Healthcare Disparities Report,” issued April 13 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’…
(Olympus NDT: Waltham, MA) -- Olympus is pleased to announce the introduction of new 10-meter long scopes for the lightweight IPLEX LX and IPLEX LT industrial videoscopes. With an effective length of 10 meters (32.8 ft) and a diameter of 8.5 mm, the new scopes are ideally suited for applications…
(CMS: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) is sponsoring its 26th annual conference, the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), in Reno, Nevada, July 12–16. The conference brings together measurement system users, developers, manufacturers, and researchers to present…
(Wichita State University: Washington) -- Airlines and airline passengers are discovering that less can be better. Fewer flights and fewer fliers have translated into better performance.
For the second consecutive year, the performance of the nation’s leading carriers improved, according to…
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n 1991, I had the privilege of attending one of W. Edwards Deming’s four-day seminars and I still proudly display the certificate of completion in my office. One of the highlights of the seminar, of course, was Deming’s famous red bead experiment. I had read about the red bead experiment, but…
The quality business is all about producing a quality product, right? By that I mean a product that looks and performs just like it was promised. Well, based on the amount of poor quality items and service that I see the quality business is apparently not doing a very good job. I’d guess that…
(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…
