ASQ Announces New Social Responsibility Medal
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ) recently announced the new Spencer Hutchens Jr. medal for social responsibility.
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Product Announcement: Heidenhain Offers High Accuracy Gauge With SPC
(Heidenhain: Schaumburg, Illinois) -- Combining a highly accurate CERTO length gauge with an ND 287 digital readout (DRO) equipped with statistical process control ( SPC) enables Heidenhain Corp. to offer a powerful new inspection system.
Product Announcement: Laser Design's SLP-500 High-Speed Laser Probe
(Laser Design: Minneapolis, Minnesota) -- Laser Design Inc., the leading supplier of 3-D laser scanners for more than 20 years, announced that its next generation of 3-D laser scanning probes has a new member, the SLP-500.
Product Announcement: Metris Launches 7-axis MCA v2.5 Range of Articulated Arms
(Metris: Leuven, Belgium) -- At Westec 2009 in Los Angeles (US), Metris launched the new 7-axis MCA v2.5 range of articulated arms with a spherical measurement envelope of between 8 and 12 feet (2.4 and 3.6 m) diameter.
Product Announcement: Series 300P Indicating Snap Gauges From Mahr Federal
(Mahr Federal: Providence, Rhode Island) -- Mahr Federal's Series 300P indicating snap gauges are an excellent choice for highly accurate and reliable measurement results on cylindrical parts with narrow tolerance ranges.
FDA Awards $1 Million in Grants for Food and Feed Safety
(FDA: Silver Spring, Maryland) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently enhanced its food and feed protection initiatives with the award of three one-year Food Safety and Security Monitoring grants totaling $1 million to the states of Arkansas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin.
Borescope Saves a Marriage
(AIT: Melbourne, Florida) -- The groom-to-be was showing the wedding ring off to his friends at work the day before the wedding when it slipped from his grasp and fell down an industrial drain. The drain had about a 10-foot vertical drop before it turned sharply horizontal.
NIST Seeks Proposals for $35 Million in Grants for Measurement Science
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it will award up to $35 million in grants and cooperative agreements for measurement science and engineering research.
