(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The U.S.

(Gartner: Stanford, CT) -- Organizations seeking to make the transition from a supply chain to a demand-driven value network (DDVN) must look beyond traditional projects and adopting functional best practices, according to Gartner Inc.

(Thomson Reuters: London) -- Thomson Reuters has enhanced its enterprisewide risk management product, Kondor Global Risk (KGR), incorporating a dynamic dashboard that provides a powerful way for risk managers to visualize and interpret their risk exposure.

(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- Implementing lean management principles in manufacturing, distribution, and supply chains are major tracks in a series of lean workshops scheduled by the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) for Minneapolis, Sept. 13–15, 2011.

(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- The recently released “Engineer Employment Study for Mobility Industries, 2011–2016,” from SAE International finds that U.S.

(Paul N. Gardner Co.: Pompano Beach, FL) -- The Paul N. Gardner Co.

(ROMER: North Kingstown, RI) -- ROMER Inc., a brand of Hexagon Metrology, has launched the CMS108, a high-precision, noncontact laser scanner available for the company’s portable coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

(Jenoptik: Jena, Germany) -- Light and compact in design, easy to operate with long-lasting battery power, the Hommel-Etamic W5 surface roughness measuring system is ideally suited for measurements on the production line.

(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc. (KMSA), the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light, and shape, announces the release of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for the recently introduced FD-Series spectrodensitometers.

The additive manufacturing industry will greatly benefit from a new ASTM International standard that will allow computer-aided design programs, scanners, and 3-D graphical editors to communicate with 3-D printers and additive manufacturing equipment.