Story update 4/13/2011: We corrected a misquote regarding who first said, “As goes GM, so goes the nation.”

(Siemens: Plano, TX, and Hanover, Germany) -- Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a global provider of product life-cycle management (PLM) software and services, has launched the

(Boothroyd Dewhurst: Wakefield, RI) -- Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc. will host the 26th annual International Forum on Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) to be held June 13–15, 2011, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island.

(Olympus NDT: Waltham, MA) -- Olympus NDT Inc. announces the launch of its instrument rental program in the United States.

(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Sales of machine vision components and systems in North America soared 54 percent in 2010 to nearly $1.8 billion, according to new figures released by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the world’s largest machine vision trade group.

(PEX: London) -- The Process Excellence Network (PEX) has united a group of top business process excellence (BPE) professionals from around the United States to help deliver a focused and highly relevant event.

(Harrington Institute Inc: Los Gatos, CA) -- The Harrington Best TQM Thesis Award was presented this year to Dr.

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(SICK: Minneapolis) -- SICK, a global leader in manufacturing sensors, safety systems, machine vision, and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, has launched the

(Thermo Fisher: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, notes that its FT-IR spectrometer instrumentation can provide scientists with increased confidence in their results during quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) testing.