(Hexagon AB: Cobham, United Kingdom) -- Hexagon AB, a global provider of design, measurement, and visualization technologies, will host its second annual international conference, Hexagon 2012, June 4–7 at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

(Georgia Tech: Atlanta) -- Creating new, improved pharmaceuticals can be like cracking the code of a combination lock: If you have the wrong numbers, the lock won’t open. Even worse, you don’t know if your numbers are close to the actual code or way off the mark.

(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- An exploration of the ways in which people skills can be acquired and developed, People Skills at Work (CRC Press, 2011) by Evan Berman and Dira Berman discus

(ASQ: Milwaukee) — The vice president in charge of Xerox’s Corporate Lean Six Sigma initiatives and the CEO and co-founder of Zingerman’s community of businesses are among the headliners speaking at the American Society for Quality (ASQ)

(FDANews: Falls Church, VA) -- FDAnews has announced details of its upcoming CAPA is King Virtual Conference: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Assuring Compliance, to be held online Dec., 13, 2011, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. EST.

(Lennox Hill Ltd.: London, UK) -- Lennox Hill Ltd. has launched a Competency Testing module to further complement its online isoTracker document control/quality management software.

(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Endress+Hauser, provider of measuring instruments and complete process automation solutions for the industrial process engineering industry, introduces the

During the Robert W. Baird 41st annual Industrial Conference, which was held Nov. 8–9, 2011, in Chicago, teams from Baird Equity Research put together macro-sector comments based on presentations and breakout sessions from more than 100 public companies.

(IS&BCA: Zagreb, Croatia) -- Most of the companies that have implemented ISO 9001 have no idea they can implement ISO/IEC 27001:2005—“Information technology—Security techniques,” this increasingly popular information security standard, with much less effort than they initially anticipate.

(AMT: McLean, VA) -- September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $606.56 million, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U.S.