(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl’s best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently found¹ that the gems might turn out to be a patient’s best friend as well.

Envision a distasteful trip to the curb to take out the trash as a pleasant—and profitable—stroll.

(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Cambridge, UK) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., recently announced a new application note to illustrate the capabilities of its Thermo Scientific iCAP 6200 ICP spectrometer for the analysis of toxic trace elements in children’s toys.

In conjunction with its Quality Expo sponsors, Automated Precision Inc. (API) and Veeco Instruments Inc., Quality Digest gave away a 32-inch flat screen television to one lucky winner during the last day of Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois.

(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced at the Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois, the immediate availability of analog scanning packages on entry level Brown & Sharpe Global Classic coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

As auto making evolves and cars increasingly become simply computers on wheels, independent repair shops are facing a new kind of problem: trying to decode and read cars’ on-board computer systems in order to diagnose problems and hopefully repair them.

(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records.

(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- Industrial engineers, quality control inspectors, and researchers can perform image capture and analysis tasks quicker and easier than ever, thanks to the groundbreaking new Olympus microscopy software platform, Stream v1.3.

(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.

Ritz-Carlton employees are passionate, disciplined, and fanatical about their jobs. Over the years, much has been written about the extraordinary customer service you can expect to receive from these bastions of performance excellence.