(American National Standards Institute: Washington) -- From alternative energies and environmental protection to the safety of products, services, homes, and workplaces, issues of safety and sustainability are important causes for stakeholders around the world.

Mystery Science Theater 3000, an award-winning television comedy, created many unique puppet characters during the course of its 20-year existence. The show quickly became a cult classic and is still popular today with a large devoted fan base.

The U.S. economy is finally on an uptick. According to Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke, the economy is set to grow by 3–4 percent in 2011.

Back when I was yardstick high, a well-dressed couple on TV kept breaking into the show I was watching to enthuse about a new technology that was going to cook a complete steak dinner during the hour-long program.

(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- NVision Inc.’s Engineering Service Division is now offering industrial computed tomography (CT) scanning for reverse engineering and full inspection of components.

(Leica Geosystems: Norcross, GA) -- Hexagon AB, a global provider of 3-D solutions to design, measure, and position objects, and to process and present data, will host its inaugural international conference, Hexagon 2011, June 6–9 at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort in Florida.

(AMETEK Inc: Dronfield, England) -- A comprehensive new system, Vessel Manager, that monitors temperature change over the entire surface of molten-metal ladles has been

The recent brouhaha involving a class-action suit against Taco Bell alleging that their beef filling is more filling than beef really got me thinking, but not about what’s in the tacos.

(Zeta Instruments: San Jose, CA) -- For more than a century, there has been lingering debate surrounding the health of Abraham Lincoln and whether his unusual height and the length of his limbs were indicative of a genetic disorder that would have eventually proven fatal had he not been assassina

During the early 1990s, I recall my Japanese sensei were absolutely appalled at the dearth of industrial and production engineers hired as kaizen consultants within major U.S. manufacturers.