On April 1 Nikon announced that it had formed Nikon Metrology Inc., a new company that combines Nikon Instruments Inc. (Nikon’s microscopy and digital imaging arm business) with the former Metris business, acquired by Nikon Corp. in 2009.

In 2009, Direct Dimensions Inc. was approached by Texas A&M University’s Flight Research Laboratory (FRL) with a challenging yet typical 3-D problem. The FRL, while primarily an active teaching facility, also offers both flight and wind tunnel test services.

(R&R Sales and Engineering: Grand Haven, MI) -- The R&R Fixture, a modular fixturing system that is designed for use with coordinate measuring machines, from R&R Sales and Engineering is the only modular fixture that can secure and hold your smallest parts with minimum contact and fo

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(ASQ: Milwaukee) — ASQ (American Society for Quality) is inviting submissions for its Education Team Excellence Award, which provides educators with the opportunity to capture national and international recognition for the winning schools’ team-based quality improvement effo

(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the global professional society serving the manufacturing industry, is issuing its annual call for nominations for the 2011 International Honor Awards, the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, and the Award of Merit.

(GBMP: Boston, MA) -- The sixth annual Shingo Prize Northeast Conference is coming Oct. 19–20 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

Courtesy of another controversy surrounding hazardous substances in children’s toys, China’s massive manufacturing sector is reliving a public relations disaster.

It’s better to measure things when we can; that’s been well-established in the quality literature over the years. The use of go/no-go gauges will always provide much less information for improvement than measuring the pieces themselves.

(Sensors Unlimited: Princeton, NJ) -- Sensors Unlimited announces a new mil-hardened, uncooled, InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) SWIR (shortwave infrared) video camera for military applications. Small and ultracompact, the high sensitivity SU320HX video camera is