(Renishaw: Hoffman Estates, IL) -- The QC20-W ballbar is an all-new design featuring a Renishaw-developed linear sensor and Bluetooth wireless technology.

(Phynix GmbH & Co.: Köln, Germany) --Phynix is broadening its product range with the gloss measuring instrument GlossFix 60.

(Camstar Systems Inc.: Charlotte, NC) -- Increasing numbers of customer complaints is typically an indicator of unresolved internal quality failures.

(AMETEK: Rochester, NY) --  AMETEK Power Instruments—a recognized leader in alarm management products—has introduced an advanced web-based alarm management system that captures critical alarms with one millisecond precision.      

(SME:Dearborn, MI) -- For the first time in its 78-year history, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has elected a woman to lead the organization.

This article describes a novel, integrated micromanufacturing process utilizing a combination of wire electro discharge grinding (WEDG) technology and one-pulse electro discharge (OPED) to fabricate microspherical stylus tips for microcoordinate measuring machines (

Performance reviews get a bad rap these days. Employees dread them, vacillating between cynical eye rolls and desperate last-minute bids to suck up to the boss before review time.

When your customers’ lives depend on your products, you take extra care in manufacturing each piece.

Measuring the sharp edges of cutting tools is a challenging process, because it involves a small radius, which requires high lateral resolution and high angles. It is also important to be able to measure a diverse range of heights.

(Creaform: Montreal, Canada) -- Creaform announces the acquisition of