(Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc.: Wakefield, RI) -- With U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse providing a video address on manufacturing’s key role in boosting the U.S.

(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ), the leading community of people passionate about quality, advances in professional development, credentials, knowledge and information services, membership community, and advocacy on behalf of its more than 80,000 members worldwide.<

(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- The role of the project manager continues to become more diverse and demanding, placing strong project management skills in high demand.

(Active Sensing: Castle Rock, CO) -- Active Sensing Inc. (ASI), provider of affordable product management solutions for manufacturing companies worldwide, has released PDXpert product life-cycle management (PLM) software v.

Conventional wisdom among managers holds that employees helping each other can only be good for a company.

(Magnatag: Macedon, NY) -- Magnatag’s magnetic Cross-Training Whiteboard system organizes and displays employee training, qualification, and proficiency levels in up to 18 skill disciplines.

(Peter Drucker Society Europe: Wien, Austria) -- The deadline for the Peter Drucker Challenge essay contest has officially been extended to Aug. 15, 2011.

If W. Edwards Deming could see what you’re doing, he’d punch you in the face. OK, not really. He may have been brutally honest in his lectures, but I don’t think he ever punched anyone.

(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- Don’t miss the world’s largest SPC conference, Infusion 2011, Oct. 16–19, at the JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square, featuring Douglas Montgomery, Ph.D., as the keynote speaker.

(CMSC: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) has announced its final schedule of events for the 27th annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) scheduled for July 25–29, 2011, at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona.