(Creaform: Lévis, Québec) -- Creaform, developer, manufacturer, and marketer of portable 3-D measurement technologies, will unveil its new lineup of MetraSCAN 3D optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM)

(Olympus: Center Valley, PA) -- With the stateside release of its newest opto-digital micro-imaging and metrology solution, Olympus is bringing the future of technology to today’s inspection, test, and quality control facilities.

(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- In response to a growing need to establish and protect intellectual property, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) will present “Pathways to Innovation: Intellectual Property Rights in Additive Manufacturing” at its RAP

(AME: Rockford, IL) -- Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (AME) has updated its “Fixturing Solutions” CD.

(BSI: Reston VA) -- Just one year ago, BSI America Professional Services introduced its Supply Chain Risk Exposure Evaluation Network (SCREEN), a web-based intelligence tool for supply chain security.

(Accenture: Dublin, Ireland) -- Business process management (BPM) is a powerful discipline for driving efficiency and innovation as well as achieving strategic imperatives.

Sure, the Italians have better food, the English richer royal culture and accents, and French women don’t get fat, but we in America regulate medical devices better, don’t we? Not so fast, says the European Union.

Located in Victor, New York, Surmotech is a full-service electronics contract manufacturer.

Long ago, W. Edwards Deming warned us about the use of what he called “arbitrary numerical goals.” Targets are another name for these. They are so commonplace that governments, service, and manufacturing organizations all use them.

(Mahr: Providence, RI) -- In the world of high-precision metrology, all parts are elastic, which means they will deform to some extent under applied force, even if only by a few millionths of an inch.