(Geomagic: Research Triangle Park, NC) -- Geomagic announced a new agreement with 3D3 Solutions as a reseller of the company’s powerful 3-D scan data processing software. 3D3 Solutions is a developer of 3-D scanning and visualization technologies.

(DongleLockBox Co.: Rancho Santa Margarita, CA) -- DongleLockbox Co. announced the release of a new protective device that helps secure USB software dongles (software keys) from theft, loss, and damage.

(Automated Precision Inc.: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc.

(FARO Technologies Inc.: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, celebrates 30 years in business in 2011.

(Metrologic Group: Wixom, MI) -- Over the last 15 years, Metrolog, the 3-D control software product from the Metrologic Group, has emerged as the benchmark industrial application for any kind of 3-D measurements.

One of the laments we hear quite frequently in the manufacturing sector is the lack of skilled employees available in the hiring pool.

I have long admired and respected Toyota. I have been to its factories, published and written books and articles about its revolutionary production system, known many of its brilliant people, and taught its methods to thousands of students.

(Chrysler Group LLC: Auburn Hills, MI) -- In January 2010, an ATOS IIe white-light scanning system at Chrysler Group's Scientific Test Labs, Aero/Thermal, was looking a bit like PIXAR's Wall-E and badly in need of an update. The technology was at the end of its usable life-cycle.

(Society of Manufacturing Engineers: Dearborn, MI) -- Manufacturing professionals who attend the 2011 Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Annual Conference will have a tough time selecting which

In business there’s a saying: Time is money. The more time it takes for something to get done, the more money is wasted.