On July 29, 2010, gauge pioneer Robert F. Edmunds Sr. died at his home in Farmington, Connecticut, at the age of 94.

(The Modal Shop Inc.: Cincinnati) -- The Modal Shop Inc. offers a simple, three-step-process to assess the benefits of using market-leading resonant inspection nondestructive test resonant acoustic method (NDT-RAM) systems.

(Intertech Development Co.: Skokie, IL) --  Worldwide quality engineers seeking to eliminate the costs associated with high-defect rates in test-intensive assembly and test operations can now enlist the services of InterTech Development Co.’s Applications Laboratory for test fixture design

(Siemens PLM Software: Plano, TX) -- NX Turbomachinery Milling, the latest addition to the NX CAM software from Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc., provides faster programming for five-axis blisk and impeller machining applications.

(The Modeling Agency: Pittsburgh) -- The Modeling Agency (TMA), a data-mining training, consulting, and solutions company, announces a restructuring of its popular “Predictive Analytics & Data Mining” course series.

(Noria: Tulsa, OK) – Noria Corp., Reliable Plant, and Machinery Lubrication present the Reliable Plant 2010 Conference and Exhibition, three co-located conferences in Nashville, Tennessee, Aug. 31–Sept. 2.

(Riegl USA: Orlando, FL) -- In 2006, a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SW-06-68) from the Federal Aviation

(Productivity Press: New York) -- The lean concepts and principles described in John Nicholas’ Lean Production for Competitive

A July 27 initial determination by the International Trade Commission (ITC) will keep machine vision manufacturer Cognex Corp.

Capability indexes allow us to characterize the relationship between the process potential and the specifications. Performance indexes characterize the past performance relative to the specifications.