(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- There’s no denying it. Manufacturing is changing and in ways you probably never imagined: new economic forces, stiff competition advances in technology, demands to work lean and green, emerging industries, and global markets.

Several years ago Tifco Gage & Gear, a division of Delta Research Corp., was an exhibitor at the Gear Expo in Detroit. Like many exhibitors at trade shows, Tifco was also looking for some new equipment. In this case, it was new gear inspection capability.

(TÜV SÜD Canada: Toronto, Canada) -- TÜV SÜD Canada, part of the global TÜV SÜD testing and certification organization, announces the acquisition of a product safety business in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

(SICK: Minneapolis) -- SICK, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of sensors, safety systems, machine vision, and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, announces the launch of the Inspector I40 FLEX vision sensor.

(Keyence Corp. of America: Woodcliff Lake, NJ) -- The new IM-6000 Series is a revolutionary step forward in the field of high-precision dimensional inspection.

(Ametek Calibration Instruments: Largo, FL) -- AMETEK Calibration Instruments has introduced a new generation of hand-held pressure calibrators designed to meet high accuracy pressure calibration applications. The JOFRA HPC500 and HPC502 calibrators combine deadweight tester accuracy in a modern

(Cybermetrics: Phoenix) -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines validation as “establishing documented evidence which provides a high degree of assurance that a specific process will consistently produce a product meeting its predetermined specification and quality attributes.”

(Solartron: Bognor Regis, England) -- Solartron Metrology has launched Wigauge wireless bore gauge (WBG)—the first in a new line of Bluetooth-enabled linear measurement and gauging systems.

(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) -- METTLER-TOLEDO was approached by a leading gelatin capsule manufacturer to optimize its capsule counting system.

(AirLoc: Franklin, MA) — Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are subject to floor disturbances from nearby production equipment, such as stamping presses, and forklift traffic, which affect the measuring accuracy of these sensitive machines.