(AMT: McLean, VA) -- United States manufacturing technology consumption totaled $178.34 million in May, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT).

(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology and Verisurf Software have joined forces to make it possible for manufacturers to drive all Nikon Metrology portable metrology devices from Verisurf’s common software platform.

(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology and Verisurf Software have joined forces to make it possible for manufacturers to drive all Nikon Metrology portable metrology devices from Verisurf’s common software platform.

(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Portals and search engines lead all e-business categories, according to an American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) survey. An overall score of 77 for these sites represents a decline of 7 percent from a year ago.

These days when the economy is uncertain, smaller organizations worry about survival while many larger, well-established organizations sit smugly, thinking they don’t really have much to worry about.

(Mireaux Management Solutions: Houston) – Mireaux Management Solutions is offering a quality management system (QMS) internal auditor course for three days, Sept. 22–24, at the Le Mistral Conference Center in Houston.

(SPC Press: Knoxville, TN) -- On July 12, SPC Press released the third edition of the classic SPC textbook, Understanding Statistical Process Control

Economies shift in response to changes in financial power, and these changes will always affect our world.

Often when I write articles or have a speaking engagement, I like to polarize things into black and white. Almost every time I do this, I’m challenged about the audacity of the approach.

Ben Margugilio wrote a nice article for Quality Digest Daily outlining how failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and what might be called just good practices could have prevented the Gulf oil spill.