Cummins Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and services diesel engines and related technology around the world. It serves its customers through a network of 500 distributors and more than 5,200 dealer locations in more than 190 countries and territories.

You know what the third-quarter review meeting means: a packet will be handed out  with bar graphs and, no doubt, trend lines on each of about a zillion “key performance indicators” that show:

(Nikon Instruments: Melville, NY) -- Nikon Instruments Inc., innovator of advanced optical instruments, has introduced the C2 Confocal Laser Point Scanning Microscope, which incorporates the newest release of

(High Technology Seminars: Cold Spring, NY) -- High Technology Seminars has announced three events for the beginning of 2011:  “Visual Lean Basics—Lean Eyes—Learning to See Waste,” “Human Error Prevention,” and “Root Cause Analysis.”

(Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: Madison, WI) --  Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

(Laser Design: Minneapolis) -- Easy-to-use, low-cost Artec, Creaform, and 3Shape 3-D scanners are now being offered for sale by 3DScanCo, a division of Laser Design Inc.

(Baumer: Southington, CT) -- With the high-precision load cells of the DLRx series, Baumer offers sensors with passive temperature compensation for direct force measurement that boast a very low-temperature effect of < 0.005%/Kelvin (K).

(Control Point Design: Minnetonka, MN) -- For a company that has spent two decades shrouding the confidential nature of its work in secrecy, it now has something it can tell the world about. Online Systems Inc.

Publisher's note: It is with great sadness that I must report that David Crosby passed away on Monday, November 15.

Publisher's note: It is with great sadness that I must report that David Crosby passed away on Monday, November 15.