(Advantest: Tokyo) -- Advantest Corp. announces that it has successfully developed the world’s first terahertz (THz) wave imaging system, using Advantest’s original terahertz-wave technology, for nondestructive 3-D analysis and inspection.

(GBMP: Worcester, MA) -- On Wednesday and Thursday, Oct.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The panel of judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest recognition for organizational performance excellence, has selected 15 organizations for the final review stage for the 2009 award.

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A previous article of mine in this newsletter, “NOT Transforming the Data Can Be Fatal to Your Analysis,” addressed the need for appropriate transformations and a predictive

(New Vista Corp.: Baltimore, MD) -- New Vista Corp. has developed a thread verification unit that is hand-held, the TVU-HH, for the rapid inspection of internal or external threads in production parts. The TVU-HH powers a thread gauge into and out of (or onto and off of) the part.

(NewsBlaze: Al Asad Airbase, Iraq) -- The Maintenance Platoon with the 47th Transportation Company, 751st Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, from Fort Bliss, Texas, keeps the missions moving.

(CGU: Claremont, CA) -- The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management and The Drucker Institute have announced the details of the global commemoration and celebration of the life of the late Peter F.

(UI: Iowa City, IA) -- A group of researchers at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business is using the principles of more efficient manufacturing processes in an effort to help contain ever-increasing health care costs.

(FARO Technologies Inc.: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, recently announced the release of their latest 3-D measurement system, the FARO Laser Tracker ION.