On Sept. 4, 2010, an earthquake that registered 7.1 on the Richter scale rocked Christchurch, New Zealand. It lasted 40 seconds but felt more like 40 minutes.

(Bruker Corp.: Boston) -- At the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall 2010 meeting taking place Nov. 29–Dec.3, Bruker Corp.

(Creaform: Levis, Quebec) -- Creaform, a global manufacturer of 3-D measurement technologies, presents at Euromold and to the entire world its new MetraSCAN optical CMM 3-D scanner.

(Extensible CAD Technologies: Raleigh, NC) -- Extensible CAD Technologies has released an enhanced version of InspectionXpert First-Article.

Managing point data sets is already a concern for clients. Now the surveying industry promotes its efficiency at the cost of best practices with a million-point-per-second milestone.

(LRQA: London) -- Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) has renewed its commitment to “business assurance” as the foundation of its brand, a move management believes better illustrates the wider benefits that its global service portfolio brings to the market.

The Toyota Production System (TPS) house diagram is often drawn with a triangular roof, a rectangular foundation, and two rectangular columns between the foundation and roof.

(The Graduate School: Washington, DC) -- The W. Edwards Deming Award is awarded annually to a government organization that demonstrates transformative training excellence.

(Tiger Optics LLC: Warrington, PA) -- The HALO-500-H2O, designed to measure higher levels of moisture in gases, is gaining notice from gas manufacturers and metrology institutes, reports Tiger Optics LLC, the manufacturer that developed the product at the behest of its London-based representativ

(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- AIAG, a not-for-profit, member-supported organization that works with a wide range of manufacturing companies and service providers to help them operate at peak performance, announced the publication of Recommended Business Practices for Long-Distance Supply Chains<