Last May, the director of the vegetable research institute at the Qingdao Academy of Agricultural Science in Qingdao, China, told the media that the Chinese government does not encourage farmers to use plant hormones on watermelons because watermelons “are very sensi

The results are in: Investments in energy management are a win‐win‐win situation for investors, stakeholders, and the environment. The main objective of an industrial organization is to be profitable by the sale of goods or services.

Back in the Dark Ages when I was growing up, people traveling by plane considered it a privilege and a social event. As such, airline travelers dressed accordingly. Men wore suits and perhaps a tie, while ladies wore dresses.

(Third Wave Systems: Minneapolis) -- During last week’s EMO 2011, the international trade fair for the machine tool industry held in Hannover, Germany, Third Wave Systems introduced current customers and members of the international press to its newest machining modeling capabilities: part di

(NIMS: Fairfax, VA) -- Last year at the 2010 Manufacturing Summit, sponsored by the Swiss Business Hub and the National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), U.S.

(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- Six Sigma for Sustainability: How Organizations Design and Deploy Winning Environmental Programs (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2011), is a new hardcover book

(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- NVision Inc., a leader in 3-D noncontact optical scanning for more than 21 years, recently provided an orthodontic company with the information it needed to recalibrate its CT scanner.

(Nikon Instruments: Melville, NY) -- Putting the power in the hands of the people for the fifth year running, Nikon Instruments Inc. announced today that its 2011 Small World Photomicrography Competition Popular Vote is open.

(AAMI: Arlington, VA) -- The challenges in managing medical devices on wireless and wired IT networks are the focus of a special Horizons magazine just released by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).

In the not-so-distant past, manufacturers using laser scanners and conventional area-scan image-based readers had to put up with inherent technology limitations.