(Xpect Solutions: Wixom, MI) -- In recent years, Southfield, Michigan-based Bradley-Thompson Tool Co. has focused its precision machining know-how on the aerospace industry—particularly on complex gear box castings.

In today’s ultracompetitive manufacturing world, knowledge is power, especially when it comes to the industry’s most advanced measurement and inspection systems.

(TÜV Rheinland PTL: Tempe, AZ) -- Figures from 13 years of solar technology testing—including the top three quality failures and strongest influences of new manufacturers on module design—show some photovoltaic (PV) modules required a tune-up to pass international qualification standards.

(Jesse Garant & Associates: Windsor, ON, Canada) -- Using computer tomography (CT) technology similar to what has been used in the medical industry for years, Ontario-based Jesse Garant & Associates has adopted and expanded this technology for automotive, mining applications, and medical

(Creaform: Lévis, QC, Canada) -- Creaform has launched the fourth version of the proprietary software VxScan.

(Cox Instruments: Scottsdale, AZ) -- COX Instruments, a supplier of precision and industrial flow measurement instrumentation for the world’s most demanding applications, has announced its turbine flowmeters are now available with ceramic ball bearings.

(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA ) -- Cognex Corp. has announced 3D-Locate, a library of 3-D vision software tools that expands application possibilities in vision-guided robotics, assembly, and inspection. 

(Carl Zeiss Metrology: Maple Grove, MN) -- In addition to a highly accurate measuring machine, the most important resources in measuring technology are the latest software and detailed application knowledge. Today, knowledge and software updates are increasingly exchanged via the internet.

(SAKOR Technologies: Okemos, MI) -- SAKOR Technologies Inc., a provider of implementation of instrumentation products for dynamometer testing, introduces the MicroDyne series of small motoring dynamometers.

(Indicate Technologies Inc.: Santa Clara, CA) -- Indicate Technlogies and the International Institute of GD&T are partnering to present a seminar series that explores the implications of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) as it applies to all manufacturing and design disciplin