(ASQ: Milwaukee) --The American Society for Quality (ASQ), the world’s largest network of quality resources and experts, is refreshing its brand to better reflect and highlight the difference quality makes in the world and the global scope of its membership.

(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has announced the appointment of seven executive committee members for the AeroDef Manufacturing Exposition and Conference, to be held April 5–7, 2011, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a provider of global food safety certifications, has launched an online tool to help food companies assess their readiness for certification to standards benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a provider of global food safety certifications, has launched an online tool to help food companies assess their readiness for certification to standards benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- A public-private organization will provide produce growers and packagers with fundamental, on-farm food safety knowledge, in advance of a proposed produce safety regulation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S.

Rob Snoeijs is a freelance technical writer for LayerWise.

(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- With DuraMax, Carl Zeiss offers a compact 3-D coordinate measuring machine (CMM). DuraMax Gear marks the evolution of DuraMax into a shop-floor gear-wheel measuring machine.

(Boulder Imaging: Louisville, CO) -- Boulder Imaging Inc. highlighted its new Vision Inspector line of high-performance machine vision systems last week at FABTECH in Atlanta.

(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International Inc., a provider of statistical process control (SPC) software, has released ProFicient on demand, a hosted software package that provides a centralized quality system for manufacturers.

(MoreSteam.com: Columbus, OH) --  MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma training and blended learning support technologies, has announced the dates of its upcoming live sessions for its Master Black Belt (MBB) development program, run jointly with the Fisher College of Busine