(The Conference Board: New York) -- The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) edged up in July, after declining in June. The index now stands at 108.11, up from the revised figure of 107.68. The July figure is 5.9-percent higher than a year ago.

(Gartner: Egham, United Kingdom) -- As familiarity with social media grows, customers’ expectations about how organizations will use these channels are evolving, according to Gartner Inc.

(FARO: Korntal-Münchingen) -- The

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program announces the opportunity to participate in the pilot of an exciting new assessment service.

(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The success of a lean manufacturing program depends far more on organizationwide leverage of lean manufacturing tools than it does on the tools themselves.

(AMACOM: New York) -- Time-strapped, screen-addicted, value-savvy, and socially engaged, today’s customers are empowered like never before. Their expectations are tougher than ever, and they expect businesses to respect that sense of empowerment—lashing out at those that don’t.

(Mettler-Toledo: Aurora, IL) -- Mettler-Toledo CI-Vision, a leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of machine vision inspection systems for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, packaging, personal care, and household chemical industries, has launched its new CLS Series for packaged pr

(AMACOM: New York) -- Everyone puts multiethnic faces in marketing materials, but it’s mostly a token gesture. Because even as the United States grows increasingly diverse, most professionals have little real knowledge of those different from themselves.

(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- After more than 40 years of promise, the next decade will see an explosion in the use of composite materials.

(Meggitt Sensing Systems: San Juan Capistrano, CA) -- Meggitt Sensing Systems, designer and manufacturer of sensing and monitoring systems, has introduced its Wilcoxon Research model F7-1, a portable piezoelectric shaker system designed to provide sonic and ultrasonic excitation over a range of 1