(Labsphere: North Sutton, NH) -- Luminescent materials are extremely important components in many applications, including solid state lighting and medical imaging and diagnostic systems.

(Flow Dynamics: Scottsdale, AZ) -- Flow Dynamics Inc. a global provider of primary standard, NIST-traceable flow calibration equipment and services, will conduct liquid and gas flow measurement training classes during April at its facility in Scottsdale, Arizona.

(UL: Northbrook, IL) -- Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), a world leader in product safety testing and certification services, announces that it has acquired Compliance Certification Services (CCS) of Fremont, California.

(TQRF: Toronto) -- Join Total Quality Research Foundation Canada (TQRF) and other organizations for The Second Canadian Quality Congress in Toronto, Canada, on Aug. 23-25.

(RITA: Washington) -- The nation’s largest airlines set a single-month record in November for on-time performance for the nearly 15 years that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has collected comparable data, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released Jan. 7 by DOT.

Besides penning a column periodically for Quality Digest Daily, I also write for a number of other newspapers and publications.

(Mitutoyo America: Aurora, IL) -- Mitutoyo America Corp. announces availability of the new QuantuMike line of micrometers.

In the first column of this three-part series, I reviewed an interview that was conducted in 1988 with F. James McDonald, president of General Motors.

(BSI: Reston, VA) -- BSI Americas announced today that ANAB has extended BSI’s global accreditation to include the Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS) for standards OHSAS 18001, Z10 for the US, and Z1000 for Canada, making BSI the first certification body (CB) in North Amer