(FARO Technologies Inc.: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, recently announced the release of their latest 3-D measurement system, the FARO Laser Tracker ION.

(Z Corp.: Burlington, MA) -- Z Corp. recently introduced the world’s most affordable portable 3-D laser scanner, providing high-resolution 3-D data capture to a broad base of users at an economical price.

(OGP: Rochester, NY) -- Optical Gaging Products Inc. (OGP) introduces the new Focus Advance 16-inch Horizontal Contour Projector, continuing its longstanding tradition of supplying state-of-the-art optical comparators to the industrial marketplace.

Top-100 automotive supplier, Kautex, relies on Metris XC50-LS Cross Scanner on LK CMM to verify the production quality of composite fuel tanks.

(Snap-on Tools: Kenosha, WI) -- Snap-on Tools Co.’s new Digital Image Capturing Borescope (BK6000) solves the case of inspecting hard-to-see places.

(Olympus America Inc.: Center Valley, PA) -- In fields as diverse as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, heavy machinery, and medical devices, the inspecting and analyzing of residue on filters is key for documenting the purity and cleanliness of the manufacturing process and analyzing particles fou

(HealthyStuff.org: Ann Arbor, MI) -- A nonprofit environmental research organization recently released results on more than 900 common products tested for toxic chemicals including lead, cadmium, mercury, bromine, chlorine (PVC), and arsenic.

In my last article, I discussed sustainability in generic terms, focusing mostly on environmental issues.

(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Business, industry, and nongovernmental organization leaders addressed quality opportunities and crises in the 21st century in a dialogue, hosted by American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the Baldrige National Quality Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technol

(Zemetris: Tucson, AZ) -- Zemetrics, an optical metrology product company founded last year to provide new concept surface metrology systems, has brought its first system, ZeMapper, to the precision engineering and research and development (R&D) market.