(DNV Certification: Houston) -- How do I get started with food safety certification? What’s the process? What are the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmarked standards and which is best for my organization?

Do these questions sound familiar? Do you have more?

(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- Traditionally, major automakers including Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Honda of America Mfg. Inc., and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc., conduct their own corporate social responsibility initiatives.

(Leica Geosystems: Norcross, GA) -- Leica Viva is a new generation measurement system that combines state-of-the-art technologies into a portfolio of total stations, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers, system controllers, and on-board software.

In conjunction with its Quality Expo sponsors, Automated Precision Inc. (API) and Veeco Instruments Inc., Quality Digest gave away a 32-inch flat screen television to one lucky winner during the last day of Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois.

(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced at the Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois, the immediate availability of analog scanning packages on entry level Brown & Sharpe Global Classic coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

(J.P.E. Consulting LLC ) -- J.P.E. Consulting LLC has released their new SIX SIGMA iPhone application. The application was officially released Friday, Sept. 18, and is available for purchase on the iTunes App Store in 23 countries.

As auto making evolves and cars increasingly become simply computers on wheels, independent repair shops are facing a new kind of problem: trying to decode and read cars’ on-board computer systems in order to diagnose problems and hopefully repair them.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records.

(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- Industrial engineers, quality control inspectors, and researchers can perform image capture and analysis tasks quicker and easier than ever, thanks to the groundbreaking new Olympus microscopy software platform, Stream v1.3.

(Palmer Wahl: Asheville, NC) -- Wahl Instruments Inc.