(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., global provider of portable 3-D measurement and imaging solutions, has released an accurate, break-resistant, spherically mounted retroreflector (SMR) as a part of its newly expanded line of laser tracker targets.

(Olympus NDT: Waltham, MA) -- Olympus NDT introduces the first semiautomated (semi-AUT) ultrasound phased-array solution developed for corrosion mapping applications.

(Productivity Press: New York) -- Although it is a given that most lean companies adopt methods to standardize cyclical activities, they often fail to apply the same rigor to noncyclical work, believing that it cannot be measured.

(Omnex Inc.: Ann Arbor, MI) – Omnex Inc. will present “Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) & Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA),” a one-day seminar on Aug. 23 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

(Veeco: Tucson) -- Veeco Instruments Inc., a global provider of precision instrumentation and metrology solutions, announces a new ContourGT Optical Surface Profiler configuration op

(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- Systematically implementing customer requests was the main challenge in developing the new ACCURA coordinate measuring machine.

(Toyota Motor Sales: Torrance, CA) -- Toyota Motor Sales recently announced that it is expanding its Product Quality Field Office program to four additional U.S. regional sales areas, following the success of a pilot program launched in the New York region in late 2009.

What are the root and contributing causes of the accident in the Gulf? What could have and should have been done to prevent the accident?

How loyal are your customers? That’s a question I bet many companies can’t answer with any specificity. Yet, it’s a critically important question.

You can’t pick up an article or turn on the news without running across the word “sustainability.” So, I got to thinking about what sustainability means on an individual level—not from a purely ecological perspective, but from a humanistic one.