When Airman 1st Class Cole Cargill finished hanging the Mental Health Flight’s new idea board, he started something that could potentially improve his flight’s business practices and its service to customers.

(Measurement Systems International: Seattle, WA) -- A chemical processing facility wanted to integrate data from a crane scale to its programmable logic controller (PLC) system and structured query language (SQL) server.

For website owners and bloggers, there is a new widget from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that will keep web pages right on time.

The emergence of cargo cults on some Pacific Islands after World War II is an amusing and oft-repeated story.

Temperature is one of the four most common types of process loops. While the other common loops—flow, level, and pressure—occur more often, temperature loops are generally more difficult and important.

A green laser flashes across a high-pressure spray that fuels a jet engine. Those flashes, some just 50 millionths of a second apart, freeze the droplets of fuel for a camera to record and a computer to analyze.

(Capture 3D: Costa Mesa, CA) -- Capture 3D has released the GOM ATOS Triple Scan series of 3-D scanners incorporating blue LED light-source technology and new pattern projection techniques.

(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal has introduced a new MarCheck measuring and evaluation unit for its high-precision Linear 100 universal length-measuring instrument. MarCheck allows both measurements and calibrations to be performed quickly and reliably at the touch of a button.

(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Traditional statistical process control assumes that manufa

(Accelper Consulting: Schaumburg, IL) -- In response to its huge and hugely successful Six Sigma Green Belt training classes in March 2010, and then receiving many requests for repeating, Accelper is organizing another session for March 21–22, 2011, at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)