(Newage Testing Instruments: Feasterville, PA) -- All Brinell optical scanning system (BOSS) units from Newage Testing Instruments now feature a USB connection as standard.

Novelist Rose Tremain is quoted as saying, “Life is not a dress rehearsal.” Accordingly, there are no second rounds. We get one chance—one moment—and there is no looking back at what could have been. Sounds pretty depressing, doesn’t it?

Lack of loyalty is a serious problem in organizations everywhere today. No longer do people join a company and devote the rest of their working lives to it.

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.