Early one morning I was in my side yard and walked up on a huge elaborate spider web complete with its designer-tenant. As I approached the artwork, the spider began to vibrate the web sending glistening dewdrops everywhere.

When a luxury yacht is ordered by someone high on the world’s who’s-who list, shipbuilders pay special attention.

(CSCMP: Lombard, IL) -- The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) has released its new online Resource Directory which includes a comprehensive section on global supply chain management consultants and a listing of their services.

(E Instruments: Langhorne, PA) -- The MicroCal P100 is a compact, rugged, reliable, and very accurate pressure calibrator making it a great choice for industrial applications.

(DMSC Inc.: Arlington, TX) -- To introduce the new Dimensional Measuring Inspection Standard (DMIS 5.2) to the world’s metrology community, the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) is offering a special  discount of 30 percent off for both CDs and downloads of the standard.

(AME: Arlington Heights, IL) -- From the combined efforts of the members of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) comes the “Visual Workplace - Visual Thinking” seminar on March 22 in Tucson, Arizona, at the Hilton Tucson East hotel, 9 a.m.

(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- In 1982, W. Edwards Deming wrote Out of the Crisis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982).

(TIA: Arlington, VA) -- Everyone involved in electronics and information communications technology (ICT) can benefit from this half-day ICT Green Boot Camp being held on March 18, at the Holiday Inn, in San Jose, California.

(Veeco, Plainview, NY) -- Veeco Instruments Inc., a provider of atomic force microscopy (AFM) technology to the nanoscience community, recently announced the Dimension Edge Atomic Force Microscope System for physical and life sciences investigation.

(DNV: Houston) -- A study being conducted by Michigan State University (MSU) on behalf of DNV finds that U.S. consumers are highly aware of food safety issues and they have high recognition of third-party certification as an effective signal of food safety assurance.