Effective communication and consistent measurement across all engineering disciplines and processes are essential to the design and manufacture of the highest quality products. Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) is key to achieving these goals.

(Buehler: Lake Bluff, IL) -- To simplify ordering and purchasing, Buehler created its new Sum-Met Bundles, which contain all the grinding and polishing consumables required to prepare 100 specimens.

(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- Soft Air USA used NVision’s laser scanning services to save three months in getting an Airsoft replica of FN Herstal’s FNP9-17 handgun to market.

(Nikon Metrology Inc.: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology Inc. recently opened its new Western regional sales office in Irvine, California.

(ASL U.S.: Danville, VA) -- ASL U.S.’s F500 provides highly accurate, dual-channel temperature measurement for platinum resistance thermometers (PRT), and exploits the inherent advantages of AC bridge technology to maintain repeatable measurements with unique levels of performance and speed.

(Visual Workplace Inc.: Byron Center, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc.

(George Products Co.: Middletown, DE) -- George Products Co. Inc., the manufacturer of OASIS Inspection Systems, has announced the addition of its “Core” product line. The OASIS Core has been designed to enable customers to run the OASIS system on their own computers.

David C. Crosby, quality guru, Zero Defect proponent, and Quality Digest Daily contributor, died this past Monday. He was 80 years old.

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: