I don’t know how much is spent on the benchmarking industry, but companies and governments seem to spend an awful lot on it.

(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Attend this online conference series of five interactive sessions and find out how to drive organizational value by transforming the practice of management and the role of the manager.

(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- AICON 3D Systems GmbH, specialists in photogrammetry for industrial 3-D measurements, has opened an office in Plymouth, Michigan to support its expanding operations in North America.

(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology has introduced a significant update and redesign of its website. The redesign gives users a faster and more customized way to find the information that they need.

(Wasp: New York) -- Wasp Barcode Technologies, a leading provider of small business productivity solutions, has released the WWS450 2D barcode scanner with base, and the

(Carltex: Nyack, NY) -- Carltex Inc. has introduced a new line of Microscope LCD Digital Tablet/Cameras that are ideal for any microscope that is used in education, industry, medical, and research and development applications.

The objective of all improvement projects should be to improve the effectiveness, or the efficiency, of the core processes. Everything else should be secondary to this objective.

(PAS Technology: Cresskill, NJ) -- PAS Technology, a leader in coordinate measuring machine (CMM) inspection automation, has released the Inspection Lifecycle Management (ILM) suite, empowering manufacturers to establish a complete, automated inspection process from a CAD model to trusted

(Pyzdek Institute: Tucson, AZ) -- No matter what your knowledge of lean Six Sigma, come join author Thomas Pyzdek and Master Black Belts Peter Bersbach and Larry Dyer in a one-hour lively discussion on “11 Ways to Sink Your Six Sigma Project,” at 11 a.m. EST on Feb. 1, 2012.