(SME:Dearborn, MI) -- For the first time in its 78-year history, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has elected a woman to lead the organization.

This article describes a novel, integrated micromanufacturing process utilizing a combination of wire electro discharge grinding (WEDG) technology and one-pulse electro discharge (OPED) to fabricate microspherical stylus tips for microcoordinate measuring machines (

Performance reviews get a bad rap these days. Employees dread them, vacillating between cynical eye rolls and desperate last-minute bids to suck up to the boss before review time.

When your customers’ lives depend on your products, you take extra care in manufacturing each piece.

Measuring the sharp edges of cutting tools is a challenging process, because it involves a small radius, which requires high lateral resolution and high angles. It is also important to be able to measure a diverse range of heights.

(Creaform: Montreal, Canada) -- Creaform announces the acquisition of

(Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: Madison, WI) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., recently unveiled an enhanced and easy-to-navigate version of its interactive UV-Visible (UV-Vis) spectrophotometer web tool.

(Underwriters Laboratories: Northbrook, IL) -- Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a provider in product safety and conformity testing and certification services, announces that UL International (UK) Ltd. (UL UK) has been appointed as a notified body to the Construction Products Directive (CPD).

(DALSA: Billerica, MA) -- DALSA Corp., a global provider in machine vision technology, announces the availability of color processing for its BOA vision system, DALSA’s highly integrated smart camera.

(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- SAE International is expanding its content offerings by partnering with SupplierBusiness, an industry leader in the creation of electronic market research reports.