(Kauffman Foundation: Kansas City, MO) -- Cost trends in U.S. health care consistently increase at about 2.5 percentage points faster than the general rate of inflation—clearly an unsustainable rate.

(CyberMetrics: Phoenix, AZ) -- CyberMetrics Corp. begins a series of no-cost, informative webinars and seminars to educate facilities maintenance and instrument calibration professionals about real-world industry solutions.

(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology has released the Optiv Classic 321GL tp vision sensor measuring system, which will be assembled at its North Kingstown, Rhode Island, facility for the North American market.

(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- Bob Lutz, the “Ultimate Car Guy” and former vice chairman of General Motors Co., is the keynote speaker at the 2012 AIAG Supply Chain Summit held May 8–9, 2012, in Troy, Michigan.

(ANSI: Washington, D.C.) -- Twenty-one federal government representatives from 10 different agencies met at the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) headquarters in Washington, D.C., for the third “Interagency Best Practices—ANSI/ISO/IEC

(Teledyne: Waterloo, ON) -- Teledyne DALSA, designer and manufacturer of digital imaging solutions, and provider of semiconductor products and services, will highlight its multispectral, aerospace, IR, and custom CCD and CMOS sensors and cameras at the

(Plex: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online FSMS, a leading enterprise food-safety management system, is offering a webinar called “Ensure Readiness for SQF Changes,” which will take place May

(Setra: Boxborough, MA) -- Setra Systems Inc., a designer and manufacturer of pressure sensor instruments and products, has announced the availability for online purchase of more than 30 of its most popular pressure, humidity, current, barometric, and vacuum sensing product families at

(FLIR: Portland, OR) -- FLIR Systems has unveiled the FLIR T420 and T440 thermal imagers. These high-performance infrared cameras enable imaging capabilities that help professionals find and capture problems more easily and with dramatically more vivid thermal images.

(Bruker: Wien, Austria) -- During the 2012 Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Convention and Exposition held recently in Las Vegas, Bruker, a developer, manufacturer, and provider of scientific instruments and analytical services, introduced the S1 TITAN handheld XRF analyzer.