When you try to improve your athletic abilities (e.g., playing tennis, swimming), how do you go about it? There are quite a few options, including observing how those who are best-in-class perform.

(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- By and large, cost-effective information technology (IT) management is more about people, personal relationships, and corporate culture than it is about the technology itself.

(AMETEK: Paoli, PA) -- Two established leaders in ultraprecision manufacturing—Taylor Hobson and Precitech—both part of the Ultra Precision Technologies Division of AMETEK Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices

(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- The Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the world’s largest machine vision trade group with more than 300 member companies from 30 nations, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Machine Vision Union (CMVU), a recently formed trade association representi

(Palmer Wahl: Asheville, NC) -- Wahl Instruments Inc. has added a new product line to its test and calibration instruments catalog.

(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) has released Parts 1 and 2 of a new series of good practice guides on product quality lifecycle implementation (PQLI).

(AQSENSE: Girona, Spain) -- The 3-D Shape Analysis Library (SAL3D) from AQSENSE, provider of tools and technology solutions for in-line and off-line measuring and inspection procedures, is a standard library for range maps and point-cloud acquisition and processing, fully oriented to 3-D machi

As most of us know, on Oct. 5, 2011, we lost Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Amid all the reports of his life and death, one of his phrases stood out to me: “Stay hungry.

Why there is stuff in the universe—or more properly, why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter—is one of the long-standing mysteries of cosmology.

Story update 11/13/2011: The references at the end of this article were inadvertently deleted during final editing. They have been restored.