(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- Soft Air USA used NVision’s laser scanning services to save three months in getting an Airsoft replica of FN Herstal’s FNP9-17 handgun to market.

(Nikon Metrology Inc.: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology Inc. recently opened its new Western regional sales office in Irvine, California.

(ASL U.S.: Danville, VA) -- ASL U.S.’s F500 provides highly accurate, dual-channel temperature measurement for platinum resistance thermometers (PRT), and exploits the inherent advantages of AC bridge technology to maintain repeatable measurements with unique levels of performance and speed.

(Visual Workplace Inc.: Byron Center, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc.

(George Products Co.: Middletown, DE) -- George Products Co. Inc., the manufacturer of OASIS Inspection Systems, has announced the addition of its “Core” product line. The OASIS Core has been designed to enable customers to run the OASIS system on their own computers.

David C. Crosby, quality guru, Zero Defect proponent, and Quality Digest Daily contributor, died this past Monday. He was 80 years old.

Cummins Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and services diesel engines and related technology around the world. It serves its customers through a network of 500 distributors and more than 5,200 dealer locations in more than 190 countries and territories.

(Nikon Instruments: Melville, NY) -- Nikon Instruments Inc., innovator of advanced optical instruments, has introduced the C2 Confocal Laser Point Scanning Microscope, which incorporates the newest release of

(High Technology Seminars: Cold Spring, NY) -- High Technology Seminars has announced three events for the beginning of 2011:  “Visual Lean Basics—Lean Eyes—Learning to See Waste,” “Human Error Prevention,” and “Root Cause Analysis.”

(Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: Madison, WI) --  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.