At a recent health-care conference I had a conversation with Mary, a Six Sigma Black Belt for a 700-bed hospital. She told me that the hospital had only a few copies of Minitab software, which was shared by several people.

(API: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc. (API) is offering new service and technology to the architectural, engineering, construction, and owner community (AEC&O).

(InnovMetric: Québec City, Canada) -- InnovMetric Software Inc., a leading supplier of industrial 3-D metrology software solutions, is proud to unveil the world’s first relational inspection solution with PolyWorks V12.

(Delcam: Birmingham, UK) -- Delcam has launched a new website for its PowerINSPECT CAD-based inspection software. The site details the many benefits that have made PowerINSPECT a leading hardware-independent inspection software.

The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) has released the long-awaited results of its large-scale, interactive measurement study conducted during the 2011 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), which was held July 25–29 in Phoenix.

(EM&C: West Columbia, SC) -- Engineered Metals and Composites Inc. (EM&C) is a premier original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of aluminum towers and small products for the marine industry.

(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc.

(Rapidform Inc.: Lakewood, CO) -- INUS Technology Inc., a world leader in providing technology, services, and software to unlock the power of 3-D scanning, announces the latest release of its turnkey Software Development Kit (SDK) for 3-D scanning application development.

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