(X-Rite: Grand Rapids, MI) -- X-Rite Inc. has introduced its VS450 spectrophotometer that gives laboratories an advanced and affordable technology to accurately control the quality of color by measuring a wide range of wet and dry samples without touching test surfaces.

Well, a simple answer is no, you don’t need a consultant to achieve ISO 9001 certification. In fact, many companies achieve ISO 9001 on their own, by appointing key employees to the task.

(ASTM: West Conshohocken, PA) -- ASTM International Committee 11 on Quality and Statistics is continuing the conversion process of popular military acceptance standards based on Military Standard 105E, Sampling Procedures and Tables for Inspection by Attributes.

The symptoms of leptokurtophobia are (1) routinely asking if your data are normally distributed and (2) transforming your data to make them appear to be less leptokurtic and more “mound shaped.” If you have exhibited either of these symptoms then you need to read thi

(Baumer: Southington, CT) -- Baumer, a Swiss-based manufacturer of high performance sensors and digital cameras, has become a member of the Cognex Acquisition Alliance. This partnership will facilitate vision system integration by unifying Baumer digital camera and VisionPro vision software expe

(Renishaw: Hoffman Estates, IL) -- Renishaw's new MODUS CMM software application works with the company's UCC2 universal CMM controller and full range of sensors, including the REVO five-axis measuring system, to form a single-source coordinate measurement machine (CMM) retrofit package, install

(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- Quality equipment is essential to a quality education.

(Eurojar: Damascus, Al-Hayat) -- Syria has decided to open its economy to the world after long years of centralized economy and to broaden its economic options east and west.

As quality professionals, we find ourselves in a never-ending search for breakdowns in systems, targeting opportunities for improvement with a relentless eye on the ever-out-of-reach but always-in-sight goal of total quality.

(WENZEL Group GmbH: Wiesthal, Germany) -- The acquisition of Steintek GmbH, located in Greding, Germany, by the WENZEL Group GmbH & Co. KG that was already announced at the Control exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany, this past May, has now been successfully concluded.