(Direct Dimensions Inc.: Owings Mills, MD) -- Every year a select group of students in the mechanical engineering program in the A.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Taking the first steps of what would be a major historical advance in the science of measurement, the Nation

(AkzoNobel Car Refinishes Americas: Norcross, GA) --  AkzoNobel Car Refinishes Americas and Toyota Motor Sales USA have agreed to combine experience and resources surrounding process improvement methods for collision repair operations, resulting in the Toyota Production System for Collision (TPS

(Albion Devices Inc.: Solana Beach, CA) -- Albion Devices Inc., an engineering firm specializing in precision measurement instrumentation, recently introduced its new, inexpensive Fireball USB interfaced digital linear-measurement probe.

(NAG: Oxford, UK) --  Quality control engineers who develop applications in the Microsoft .NET environment and program in C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++, or F# can now incorporate the methods from one of the most extensively tested and comprehensively documented numerical libraries in the world, t

(Dimensional Control Systems Inc.: Troy, MI) -- Dimensional Control Systems Inc.

(Xsens Technologies B.V: Los Angeles) -- Xsens Technologies B.V., a provider of professional 3-D tracking systems, has released the MTw miniature wireless inertial motion tracker for ambulatory 3-D kinematic measurements.

(Kistler: Farmington Hills, MI) -- Kistler has introduced the Corrsys-Datron Microstar II, the next-generation of its flexible microwave sensor.

(StatPoint Technologies Inc.: Warrenton, VA) -- StatPoint Technologies Inc., the developer of the Statgraphics line of statistical tools used in data analysis across the spectrum of business management, manufacturing, and scientific research, has launched a free

Last year I discussed the problems of transforming data prior to analysis (see my August 2009 column, “Do You Have Leptokurtophobia?,” my September 2009 column, “