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(PPT Vision: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION introduces 26 new IMPACT M-Series color cameras with dedicated color IMPACT software tools for sorting, monitoring, and identifying color objects.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget submitted to Congress for the U.S.

(AMT: McLean, VA) -- December U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $446.76 million, according to The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA). This total, as reported by companies participating in the U. S.

(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- Juran is combining two of their valuable tools and giving everyone the opportunity to purchase them at a special price.

(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. announces the launch of VisionPro 7.0 machine vision software. VisionPro 7.0 introduces Inspection Designer, a new concept to simplify development and field maintenance of inspection applications.

(Hexagon Metrology: Cobham, Surrey, U.K.) -- The race is on for who will manufacture 1,000 mirrors for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).