(SME: West Springfield, MA) --  Manufacturing is poised for a rebound as it shakes off the ill effects of the recession.

(Systems2win: Nashville, TN) -- Systems2win, a supplier of Excel templates for lean kaizen continuous improvement tools has introduced the Lean Starter Toolkit, which includes a selection of downloadable templates, videos, and instructions.

(NIST: Washington) -- President Barack Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget submitted today to Congress for the U.S.

(Shimadzu Scientific Instruments: Columbia, MD) -- Shimadzu Scientific Instruments’ EMT series Servopulser fatigue testing machine is a new environmentally friendly option for dynamic strength testing. It operates exclusively on efficient electrical power.

(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Despite recent news reports to the contrary, quality processes are not stifling creativity at major U.S. corporations.

(Hitachi High Technologies: Tokyo) -- As the successor to the Hitachi TM-1000, the Hitachi TM3000 offers a dramatic improvement in all the features of the earlier device, including its compact size, ease of operation, and magnification.

Now that the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have passed their own versions of sweeping health care reform legislation, the health care industry has its eyes and ears on lawmakers as they negotiate the details of a final, compromise measure. 

Printed circuite board (PCB) manufacturing is moving rapidly up the technology ladder. Keeping internal processes current (and compliant) with new requirements, without disrupting existing customer demands, presents ongoing risks.

Every now and then I like to relax in my comfortable Lazy Boy chair and contemplate what’s going on in the world and how it affects my life. Being retired gives people that option.

In my column of Jan. 7, “The Right and Wrong Ways of Computing Limits,” I looked at the problems in computing limits for average charts.