(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- Cameron Compression Systems used NVision HandHeld laser scanners to produce a solid model of an existing large engine in one-tenth of the time that would have been required using conventional methods.

Story update 10/22/2009: We added a reference to Toyota Kata in the first paragraph.

When you think about equipment that is used for measuring and test activities, you think about important equipment that is used to pass or fail product but may not necessarily see its correlation with a supply chain.

Ten years after the Institute of Medicine released its influential report "To Err Is Human" (www.iom.edu/en/Reports/1999/To-Err-is-Human-Building-A-Safer-Health-System.a

(Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium: Arlington, TX) -- The new DMIS Output Tools are inexpensive and easy-to-use reporting tools. The DMIS Output Tools application offers a simple set of data reporting and export capabilities based on standard DMIS output files.

(Society of Manufacturing Engineers: Dearborn, MI) -- Be sure to mark May 18–20, 2010, on your calendar. That's the date for RAPID, North America's largest annual rapid and additive manufacturing conference and exposition. The event will be held at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California.

(GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms: Charlottesville, VA) -- How do you know if your operators are following standard operating procedures (SOPs)? You trust your best operators. But, they can't handle all processes, all the time. 

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(ITC: New York) -- Register for the International Test Conference and make your online hotel reservations. Test Week events will be held Nov. 1-6, 2009, at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.

(Renishaw: Hoffman Estates, IL) -- Renishaw's new FASTRACK linear encoder scale system brings high accuracy, stainless steel construction, and quick, easy installation to large, sectional machines used in flat-panel display and photovoltaic manufacturing applications, as well as large coordinate