Leaders of quality assurance programs must be able to generate interest and commitment without burdening clinical and administrative staff with an activity they neither understand nor believe in.

Managers get a lot of training on how to solve problems. They get no training on their role in problem solving.

(S. Himmelstein: Hoffman Estates, IL) --The MCRT 79700V digital torquemeter has two ranges with independent outputs, eliminating the cost and inconvenience of swapping between two or more conventional torque meters when production is switched between different products.

(INUS Technology: Seoul) -- INUS Technology’s next major release of its flagship reverse engineering software, Rapidform XOR, has begun shipping to customers.

(Informatica Corp.: Redwood City, CA) -- Informatica Corp., an independent provider of enterprise data integration software, has released the industry’s first book about applying lean principles to the challenges of enterprise data and process integration, entitled  

(Carl Zeiss: Thornwood, NY) -- Carl Zeiss MicroImaging Inc. introduces the Axio Lab.A1 microscope for examinations in reflected light in the materials sciences.

(Minitab: State College, PA) -- Minitab Inc. has released Minitab 16 Statistical Software, the latest version of the leading software used for quality improvement and statistics education.

(JETS: Alexandria, VA) -- Tackling one of the world’s most pressing problems—the global water shortage—from an engineering perspective, students from The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, took the top national honor for the 11-/12-grade level, while those from the Harker School in San Jose,

(Nikon Metrology: Leuven, Belgium) -- At the international 2010 Control trade fair for quality assurance, Nikon Metrology introduced the all-digital LC60Dx/LC50Cx scanners.

At the time of this writing, inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are at work monitoring seafood safety in areas affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Finger-pointing continues and there is now talk on the news of criminal prosecutions.