Substantial improvements in energy efficiency with positive financial consequences have been experienced both by a major company and by a small business taking part in a pilot program to test the new ISO 50001 energy management standard from the International Organ

(FDA: Washington) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a new strategy to meet the challenges posed by rapidly rising imports of FDA-regulated products and a complex global supply chain in a report called the “Pathway to Global Product Safety and Quality.”

(QI Macros: Denver) -- Jay Arthur, author of Lean Six Sigma Demystified (McGraw-Hill Business, 2010) and QI Macros

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Interested in improving your organization’s excellence? Then sign up for one of the two 2011 Baldrige Regional Conferences. This year, they’re being held in Missouri and Alabama.

(GBMP: Boston) -- Conference agenda details have been released for the 7th Annual Northeast Shingo Prize Conference being held at the Mass Mutual Convention Center, in Springfield, M

(FARO Technologies: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies, a leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, along with the University of South Florida (USF) has announced that they will partner to provide terrestrial laser-scanning training to purchasers of FARO Laser Scanners.

(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- NVision Inc.’s Engineering Service Division is now offering product-defect analysis, which can potentially be introduced in product liability litigation to prove a manufacturer innocent of producing a defective or harmful product.

(Electro Standards Laboratories: Cranston, RI) -- The Model 4215 Dual-Channel Smart Load Cell Indicator, Catalog No. 304217, measures and controls strain-gauge, transducer-based systems.

(Harvard Computing Group: Devens, MA) -- Harvard Computing Group has released an integrated software solution for Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance.

A new microspectrometer architecture that uses compact, disc-shaped resonators could address the challenges of integrated lab-on-chip sensing systems that now require a large, off-chip spectrometer to achieve high resolution.