(Yokogawa Test & Measurement: Tokyo) -- Yokogawa Meters & Instruments actively supports energy-saving efforts by offering customers a variety of products that enhance the measurement of power consumption and improve efficiency in the development and evaluation processes.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- In a paradox typical of the quantum world, scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have eliminated collisions between atoms in an atomic clock by packing the atoms

President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011, which begins in October, includes funds to keep the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) ticking over, after a fashion, for another year.

(Bruker Corp.: Tucson, AZ) -- Bruker Corp.

(SAKOR Technologies Inc.: Okemos, MI) -- SAKOR Technologies Inc., a recognized leader in manufacturing instrumentation products for dynamometer testing, has introduced its Accudyne family of AC Motoring Dynamometers.

(PPT Vision: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION introduces 26 new IMPACT M-Series color cameras with dedicated color IMPACT software tools for sorting, monitoring, and identifying color objects.

(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. announces the launch of VisionPro 7.0 machine vision software. VisionPro 7.0 introduces Inspection Designer, a new concept to simplify development and field maintenance of inspection applications.

(Hexagon Metrology: Cobham, Surrey, U.K.) -- The race is on for who will manufacture 1,000 mirrors for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).

(INUS Technology Inc.: Seoul, South Korea) -- INUS Technology Inc. recently announced the release of Rapidform XOV2 Service Pack 2, which brings major improvements to the application’s reporting and 3-D scan measurement capabilities.

(InnovMetric Software: Quebec City) -- InnovMetric recently reached a significant milestone in the deployment of its universal 3-D metrology software platform, PolyWorks, in the automotive industry.