The world admires the United States for our education system. Students from China, India, Russia, and a host of other countries fill our colleges and universities.

On July 8, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an initiative “… to evaluate industry’s compliance and understanding of Part 11 in light of the enforcement discretion described in the August 2003 Guidance for Industry Part 11, Electronic Records; Electro

(Aegis Analytical Corp.: Lafayette, CO) -- Aegis Analytical Corp., a provider of enterprise manufacturing intelligence software, announces that Discoverant for quality data management is available as a tool for qu

(Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: Billerica, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has launched the Niton XL2 GOLDD Series hand-held X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer.

(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Health care organizations from around the globe are invited to share their models of quality improvement at the upcoming 2011 Quality Institute for Healthcare (QIHC) Conference, May 16–18 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Baldrige Fellows, an executive development program centered on forming relationships with and learning from Baldrige National Quality Award recipient organizations and their senior executives, recently announced the 14 members of its initial class.

(Universal Robotics Inc.: Nashville, TN) --Universal Robotics Inc., a software engineering company, has launched two 3-D vision software products: 

(Micro-Vu Corp.: Windsor, CA) -- Micro-Vu Corp. introduces new Excel 501 and 502 measurement systems.

In sawmills, optimization is an in-process procedure that maximizes output of the highest-value board size and quality from the limited and environmentally valuable input of randomly shaped logs.