"Innovate at all costs!" This is the exhortation from innumerable business articles and best-selling business books. These authors describe how to innovate but fail to include how to find the time to innovate.

(Quality Digest: Louisville, KY) -- As first reported in the July 17th issue of Quality Digest Daily, Hexagon Metrology has filed patent infringement litigation against Metris N.V.

(Hexagon Metrology Inc.: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc., on July 21 at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) in Louisville, Kentucky, announced the North American debut of the new Leica TDRA6000 Total Station, the most accurate Leica Geosystems total station ever rel

I remember reading a book when I was younger, about a girl who was separated from her family during the Westward Migration, and forced to live on her own in the wilderness of early spring in 1860s America (unfortunately I don’t remember the name of the book).

(Quality Digest: Louisville, KY) -- Real-time 3-D capture and comparison to a CAD model—on a moving part—generated some excitement at the CMSC show when Creaform demonstrated the capabilities of its HandyPROBE 3-D probing system running with

Have you ever met people who “do” statistical process control (SPC) only to get some screwy-looking control chart, and then text: OMG I H8 SPC! (If you don’t understand that, ask your nine-year-old child or grandchild.)

(Aven Inc.: Ann Arbor, MI)—Digital microscope users gain all-in-one convenience from the first integrated systems that combine image capture, measurement, annotation, and networking capability without external software or hardware.

(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, Ohio) -- Marzipan has its origins in the Orient, where it was served at the caliph's table as a special delicacy, and for a long time in Europe, marzipan could only be enjoyed by the elite such as crowned heads, princes, and ladies of court.

(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, Ohio) -- Marzipan has its origins in the Orient, where it was served at the caliph's table as a special delicacy, and for a long time in Europe, marzipan could only be enjoyed by the elite such as crowned heads, princes, and ladies of court.

With the proliferation of 3-D scanning technologies, many options are available for obtaining an electronic 3-D file of a scanned object. The quality of results varies widely.