(FIPA: Cary, NC) -- Commercially available standard rotary units can be too heavy for some applications. Every gram saved achieves better dynamics, particularly for grippers with several rotary units.

(Creaform: Lévis, Quebec, Canada) -- Creaform, a leader in portable 3-D optical measurement technologies, has introduced the MaxSHOT 3D optical coordinate measuring system.

(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The managerial practices that successfully drove industry for decades have become insufficient to support the rapidly changing business landscape.

(Uson: Houston) -- Quality engineers who use leak test instrumentation on production lines for inspecting seal integrity of products for accurate measurement of leaks or flow rates can now achieve both higher quality and more efficient operations through improved

(Thomson Reuters: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Health care spending is 10-percent higher for hospital employees than it is for the general employee population, according to a recent study by the health care business of Thomson Reuters.

(i-nexus: Coventry, UK) -- Is nonvalue-added (NVA) activity draining your operational excellence resources? Are spreadsheets not as flexible and scalable as you need them to be? Do you need to find a more effective way to create the reports demanded by senior managers?

(ISO: Geneva) -- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the joint technical committee (JTC) ISO/IEC JTC 1—“Information Technology” of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) announced formal approval of a

(Invensys: Plano, TX) -- Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of technology systems, software solutions, and consulting services to the manufacturing and infrastructure operations industries, will host its annual series of international user and industry events.

(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) wishes to invite all interested parties to register for World Standards Week 2011 (WSW), to be held Oct. 11–14, 2011, in Washington, DC.

(IBM: Armonk, NY) -- WellPoint Inc. and IBM announced an agreement to create the first commercial applications of the IBM Watson technology.