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GBMP
(GBMP: Boston, MA) -- The GBMP Lean Manufacturing Certificate Program—East is an eight-day learning event beginning Tues., Oct. 11, 2011, in Shirley, Massachusetts. It provides manufacturing and service professionals with fundamental tools and indispensable knowledge to implement continuous…
(3DX-Ray: Leicestershire, UK) -- 3DX-Ray Ltd., developer, manufacturer, and installer of X-ray inspection systems, has launched CatSpect, a new software module, within the 3DX-Ray standardized software suite, that will make the analysis of items even easier. A new icon-based interface enables…
CRAIC Technologies
(CRAIC: San Dimas, CA) -- CRAIC Technologies, a leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions, has introduced Lightswitch by CRAIC, an optical multiplexer for the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) regions. This unit is designed to attach to an open photoport to…
Accelper Consulting
(Accelper Consulting: Wheaton, IL) -- The Business Innovation Conference, which runs Oct. 10–12, 2011, at ITT Rice Campus in Wheaton, Illinois, is dedicated to the vigorous exchange of ideas on business innovation and innovative thinking. The conference, which is organized by Accelper…
Argonne National Laboratory
Perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest paintings has never been reprinted in books of his art. Known as the Battle of Anghiari, it was abandoned and then lost—until a determined Italian engineer gave the art world hope that it still existed, and a physicist from the U.S. Department of…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. and Hendrick Motorsports have announced a multi-year partnership agreement that makes Hexagon Metrology the Official Provider of Dimensional Metrology Products and Services to Hendrick Motorsports.
Hendrick Motorsports, winner…
Mike Micklewright
Those who are cynical toward an ISO 9001-based quality system often ask sarcastic questions similar to, but often more vulgar than, the one in the title of this article. These rude anti-ISOs just don’t understand us quality folks.
The issue of how much should a company document keeps rearing…
Measurement Systems International
(MSI: Seattle) -- The new Dyna-Link 2, employing MSI’s ScaleCore technology, provides 24-bit A/D conversion and precision, 0.1-percent accuracy with standard
2,500 or optional 5,000 division resolution. More efficient processing
power allows extended continuous operating time to more than…
Delcam
(Delcam: Birmingham, United Kingdom) -- Delcam has launched a new website for its PowerINSPECT CAD-based inspection software—www.powerinspect.com. The site details the many benefits that have made PowerINSPECT the world’s leading hardware-independent inspection software.
One of the most…
Lion Technology
(Lion Technology: Las Vegas) -- Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added Peter Kuhn, former president and CEO of the French Gulf Mining and Bullion River Gold corporations, to their list of most wanted fugitives. Charged with illegal disposal of hazardous waste and…
Kaplan EduNeering
(Kaplan EduNeering: Princeton, NJ) -- Kaplan EduNeering, a leading provider of online compliance and training management solutions, and Kaplan & Walker LLP, a U.S. law firm practicing exclusively in the area of corporate compliance and ethics (C&E) programs, are collaborating on a series…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- While most of us would say that hindsight is 20/20, the folks at the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program believe just the opposite for organizations that want to survive and thrive now and for years to come. To share the keys to 20/20 foresight—the ability to…
NIST
Counting the seconds until Metric Week (Oct. 9–15, 2011) begins? That’s the spirit! Seconds are the metric unit of time. You also could figure your distance in meters (the metric unit of length) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) labs in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where…
Duke University
Outsourcing service providers are taking steps to diversify service offerings to stay competitive, according to new research from The Center for International Business Education and Research’s (CIBER) Offshoring Research Network (ORN) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and PwC US.…
FDA
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) international program has logged nearly 75,000 hits to its web pages on the new food safety law, as foreign companies that export food to the United States scramble to learn how the law affects them.
“A lot of our foreign offices are being deluged with…
Donald J. Wheeler
All charts for count-based data are charts for individual values. Regardless of whether we are working with a count or a rate, we obtain one value per time period and want to plot a point every time we get a value. This is why four specialty charts for count-based data had been developed before…
American Association of Advanced Metrology
Manufacturing and metrology leaders have announced a new certification body establishing performance standards for service providers and equipment manufacturers in the rapidly expanding digital metrology industry.
The American Association of Advanced Metrology (AAAM) “encourages and…
Ryan E. Day
Now I don’t mean to brag, but I make a mean filet mignon... usually. The preparation always involves a good soaking in my secret marinade recipe (McCormick’s and red wine) then grilling on the BBQ turned up to its “ludicrous” setting. So why the occasional extra char in the char-broil?
Two…
HBM nCode
(HBM nCode: Southfield, MI) -- nCode, the leading brand of durability, test, and analysis products offered by HBM, will be releasing new solutions for thermo-mechanical fatigue calculations in the next release of nCode DesignLife version 8. It will enable a wide range of high-temperature…
AlixPartners
(AlixPartners: Detroit) -- Most large manufacturers last year failed to reach their cost-savings targets, despite significant investments in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other productivity programs as part of their overall retrenchment efforts in this tepid economy. Nearly 70 percent of…
FARO
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., a leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, has developed improvements to its laser scanner, the Focus3D. Complete with new features that enhance registration and remote functionality, this newest Focus3D represents FARO’s…
McGraw-Hill
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- The case studies throughout the book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management (McGraw-Hill, 2011), illustrate successful performance improvement implementations that show how the combination of lean, Six…
American Management Association AMA
(AMA: New York) -- When you procrastinate, you affect both your career and your personal life. The webinar, “Procrastination to Productivity: 6 Ways to Get Started, Get More Done and Have More Energy,” provided by the American Management Association (AMA) gives you step-by-step tools you can use…
Dimensional Control Systems DCS
(DCS: Troy, MI) -- Dimensional Control Systems Inc. (DCS), a provider of dimensional engineering software and consulting services, has announced that vice president Donald Jasurda will address aerospace engineers and manufacturers at the SAE 2011 AeroTech Congress and Exhibition. The event will…
Kimberly Egan
Last May, the director of the vegetable research institute at the Qingdao Academy of Agricultural Science in Qingdao, China, told the media that the Chinese government does not encourage farmers to use plant hormones on watermelons because watermelons “are very sensitive.”
The Chinese have learned…
