(OAKTON Instruments: Vernon Hills, IL) -- OAKTON Instruments, designer and manufacturer of innovative scientific instruments for research, industrial, and educational uses, announces its new pH 700 and Ion 700 Benchtop Meters

(ANSI: New York) -- More than 80 percent of global commodity trade is affected by standards and conformance, which translates to more than 13 trillion business dollars each year.

While playing her role as Maria Kutschera in The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews once sang about her favorite things, among which were geese flying with the moon on their wings, doorbells, and brown paper packages.

With the use of statistical software, many individuals are being exposed to more than just measures of location and dispersion. In addition to the average and standard deviation, they often find some funny numbers labeled as skewness and kurtosis.

(Raytek: Santa Cruz, CA) -- Raytek, a designer, manufacturer, and provider of infrared (IR), thermometry instruments, has enhanced its MI3 Series IR temperature measurement sensors with new integrated network communication options.

(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International’s Global Food Safety Division and Paster Training Inc. have partnered to offer a combination of training and consulting services to the food service and retail food industries.

(ASM Sensors: Elmhurst, IL) -- ASM Sensors Inc. (ASM) developer, manufacturer, and marketer of electromechanical position sensors for industrial applications, has expanded its POSITAPE line of tape-extension position sensors with the introduction of the WB12 series.

(Micro-Epsilon: Cheshire, UK) -- Visitors to booth No. P47 at this year’s Sensors+Systems for Control and Instrumentation exhibition, Sept.

(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- Jossey-Bass/Wiley has announced a new online conference series, “Why Management Still Matters,” convened by the Jossey-Bass Management Institute Online, beginning Sept. 22 and continuing through Oct. 20, 2011.

(TraceLink: Woburn, MA) --  TraceLink Inc., developer of the TraceLink Network, an industrywide supply collaboration network, has released Trace Link Quality Review, the first service designed to