These days small-business owners are faced with the difficult task of doing much more with a lot less.

In a 2009 book review for Bukisa.com, a blogger named Khead quoted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point (Little, Brown and Co., 2000): “‘In order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements.’ This is one detail

Frugal companies succeed commercially in part because they consistently control spending and are resourceful with people and products rather than cutting costs reactively, according to a new University of California, Davis, study.

It’s now been about four years since the Dow began its precipitous decline, and about three since the invention of the expression “too big to fail” entered our lexicon. Two years ago, the U.S.

Every few years the American Society for Quality (ASQ) conducts a Future of Quality study.

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a vision system tool that is widely used in the packaging industry. Like bar code technology, OCR is a data-capture methodology.

(ROMER: North Kingstown, RI) -- ROMER Inc., a brand of Hexagon Metrology, has launched the CMS108, a high-precision, noncontact laser scanner available for the company’s portable coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

(Jenoptik: Jena, Germany) -- Light and compact in design, easy to operate with long-lasting battery power, the Hommel-Etamic W5 surface roughness measuring system is ideally suited for measurements on the production line.

(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc. (KMSA), the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light, and shape, announces the release of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for the recently introduced FD-Series spectrodensitometers.

The additive manufacturing industry will greatly benefit from a new ASTM International standard that will allow computer-aided design programs, scanners, and 3-D graphical editors to communicate with 3-D printers and additive manufacturing equipment.