(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Planned serendipity is not an abstract, magical notion. It’s a practical skill.

(Battenberg: Marburg, Germany) -- Manufacturing products of consistently high quality at every production site throughout the world is an ideal to which all OEMs aspire, but in practice, there tends to be major regional differences in quality.

(Kistler: Amherst, NY) -- Kistler, a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of precision sensors, accelerometers and associated electronics, and analysis software for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque, and acceleration, has announced the availability of its piezoelectric acceleromet

(Quality Digest: Chico, CA) -- Juran Institute has announced that CEO Joseph A. De Feo has been inducted into the 2012 Connecticut Business Hall of Fame.

(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Written to help readers understand the reasons why leaders and teams get along—or don’t—when they communicate in a group, Reading the Room<

(Minitab: State College, PA) -- Minitab, developer of software for quality improvement, is offering a no-cost webinar, “Minitab 16 Tips and Tricks,” to help Minitab users of all skill levels operate Minitab 16 Statistical Software like an expert and quickly accomplish common tasks.

(TÜV SÜD: Peabody, MA) -- TÜV SÜD America, a business-to-business engineering services firm providing international safety testing and certification services, has been granted accreditation by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) to provide certification to Responsible Recycling (R2)

(Teledyne: Waterloo, Ontario) -- Teledyne DALSA, a designer and manufacturer of digital imaging solutions, will feature its state-of-the-art imaging components and subsystems development capability for defense and security applications at

(Nikon: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) offer the productivity gains that are provided by Renishaw’s five-axis REVO probe system.

(Sunnen Products: St. Louis) -- Sunnen Products, manufacturer and distributor of bore sizing machines, abrasives, and engine building products, now offers large-readout electronic indicators on its entire range of dial bore gauges.