Every once in awhile people will ask me to (discretely) evaluate a kaizen event team’s effectiveness. I don’t necessarily relish doing that when it is intended for the purpose of team comparisons, but it’s not an unfair request from senior leaders.

(MIRTEC: Oxford, CT) -- MIRTEC, a global leader in inspection technology, is the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Global Customer Service Leadership Award for the surface mount technology (SMT) inspection equipment market.

(OMG: Needham, MA) -- The Business Ecology Initiative (BEI), a nonprofit, member-led organization committed to breaking down silos and promoting “business ecology” practices within and among organizations, announces the Business Ecology Webinar Series, which will begin May 6, 2011, at 11 a.m.

(The Shingo Prize: Logan, UT) -- At the Principles of Operational Excellence and Assessment workshop, scheduled for May 11–12 at the Boart Longyear plant in Salt Lake City, workshop participants will gain an understanding of The Shingo Model and the underlying principles behind The Shingo Prize p

(Hamamatsu: Hamamatsu City, Japan) -- The C10800 series of dual-energy X-ray cameras from Hamamatsu feature high resolution and a wide dynamic range.

(CorDEX: North York Shire, UK) -- CorDEX Instruments unveiled the CorDEX UT5000 tester, an intrinsically safe ultrasonic radio-frequency identification (RFID) handheld unit designed for testing and detecting corrosion in pipeline networks.

(BSI: Reston, VA) -- BSI Group America Inc., a leading provider of total solutions for certification and standards announces the launch of its Specialized Regulatory Training with courses targeted specifically for the medical device industry.

(Siemens: Plano, TX) -- In the post-recession economy, successful product development efforts will increasingly be shaped and driven by advanced IT tools like product life-cycle management (PLM) and collaborative software that will enable design stakeholders to share updates, reuse data, and stre

(Micro-Epsilon: Ortenburg, Germany) -- Renowned for its

(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), a nonprofit, member-supported organization that works with a wide range of manufacturing companies and service providers to help them operate at peak performance, announces its Supplier and Product Reliability Assurance Recomm