(Jossey-Bass: San Francisco) -- Led by China and India, the rise of emerging Asia is transforming the structure of the global economy. By 2025, if not sooner, China will almost certainly overtake the United States to become the world's largest economy.

Editor's note: The following interview with ANSI CEO, Joe Bhatia, first appeared in the June 2012 edition of ISO Focus+ magazine and is reproduced with the kind permission of

(Renishaw: New Mills, UK) -- On June 27, 2012, Renishaw PLC was presented with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2012 by Dame Janet Trotter, Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.

In retrospect it was easy to see that the strategic planning process for new products was flawed. What began as a simple customer-service escalation due to product quality issues for Strategic Network and Broadband Co.

In a class last month I was asked to explain a number that occurs in some measurement system evaluations and which is known as the precision to tolerance ratio (P/T ratio).

(CCP: Beavercreek, OH) -- Certified Comparator Products (CCP), a division of Quality Vision International Inc. (QVI), has introduction of the CC-16L optical comparator.

Every day, we are bombarded with messages about how to get things done. We hear a lot less, though, about how to get things right.

(Olympus: Center Valley, PA) -- Olympus has premiered its IX3 line of inverted research microscopes, three systems that offer researchers flexibility to customize their microscopes.

(Build!IT: Montreal, Quebac, Canada) -- Build!IT Desktop is a CAD-to-part inspection software that enables quick and easy dimensional verification of manufactured parts and assemblies.

(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today’s global manufacturing environment. They are too complex and too focused on past performance.