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InnovMetric Software
(InnovMetric Software: Quebec City) -- InnovMetric Software is pleased to announce that version 12 of PolyWorks/Modeler will offer new parametric 2-D sketching capabilities. This development project is inscribed within a vision of true interoperability with CAD/CAM applications in which the role…
Nikon Metrology Inc.
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology introduces the Laser Radar MV330/350 for automated large-scale metrology applications. The new Laser Radar doubles measurement speed and performance, offers better data quality through improved signal-to-noise ratio, and features enhanced hole and…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Explanations of theory, lists of rules, and discussions of procedure are the basis of learning lean Six Sigma. However without a visceral understanding of the application of this powerful system in various circumstances, the knowledge remains, at best,…
Association For Manufacturing Technology AMT
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- September U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $399.76 million, according to the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association (AMTDA) and the The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT). This total, as reported by companies participating in the United…
(Alliance Scale Inc.: Canton, MA) -- A line of Class F cast-iron grip handle weights, which are NIST-traceable for the calibration and field testing of a wide range of scales, has been introduced by Alliance Scale Inc.
Alliance grip handle weights are Class F cast-iron painted, density 7.2 for…
Pilgrim Quality Solutions
(Pilgrim Software Inc.: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Software Inc., a global provider of enterprise risk, compliance, and quality management (ERCQM) software solutions, has announced the availability of SmartSolve 9, the latest and most enhanced version of its integrated process automation platform…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo has launched the GTP—Good Titration Practice program—to establish reliable and risk-free titration in practice.
GTP covers the entire life cycle of a titration system. Reliable titration starts long before daily routines in the laboratory. A…
i-nexus
(i-nexus: Coventry, UK) -- Are you looking for ways to ensure your business strategies are not just planned, but cascaded and executed effectively? Join Paul Docherty, CEO of i-nexus and expert on strategy execution, the emerging discipline of business execution, as he shares how leading…
Noncontact measurement is the fastest growing segment in the metrology world, with new methods and technologies being introduced every year. As with all new solutions, end users want to know how to evaluate the performance of these new products, and for that they turn to standards organizations.…
AICON 3D Systems
Uwira Oy , based in the West-Finnish harbor town of Vaasa, is part of the Leinolat Group, a corporation of six companies. Since 1993, the company has successfully manufactured welding products for the energy, shipbuilding, and machine-building sectors. One of Uwira’s special fields is the…
Talion Edwards
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been invaluable to the U.S. measurement industry by developing calibration techniques for equipment used for large volume portable metrology. The U.K.'s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has made a further commitment to address the…
Talion Edwards
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been invaluable to the U.S. measurement industry by developing calibration techniques for equipment used for large volume portable metrology. The United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has made a further commitment to…
Laurel Thoennes @ Quality Digest
The term “never events” refers to particularly shocking medical errors that should never occur (e.g., wrong-site, wrong-patient, wrong-procedure surgeries). There are other terms used in official capacities for such errors, but none have captured the nation’s attention or perhaps done more toward…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The growing demand for online courses and supporting technology has resulted in structural and functional challenges for universities and colleges. These changes have led many distance-education providers to recognize the value of understanding the fundamental…
American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI
(ACSI: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Customer satisfaction dropped for several nondurables, while tobacco products rebounded from last year’s lows, according to a report released by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The report covers customer satisfaction with beer, soft drinks, tobacco, and…
(Morehead: Charlotte, NC) -- Morehead, the human-capital research firm, will host a webinar titled “Secrets of a Winning Healthcare Organization.” The free hour-long webinar will be broadcast on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 at 1 p.m. EST.
Rod Wilkes, senior vice president of Morehead’s Client…
ISPE
(ISPE: Tampla, FL) -- ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, has announced the release of GAMP Good Practice Guide: Calibration Management, Second Edition, which coincided with the start of the 2010 ISPE Annual Meeting in…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) --The American Society for Quality (ASQ), the world’s largest network of quality resources and experts, is refreshing its brand to better reflect and highlight the difference quality makes in the world and the global scope of its membership. The new brand strategy, which includes…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has announced the appointment of seven executive committee members for the AeroDef Manufacturing Exposition and Conference, to be held April 5–7, 2011, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
With pressure…
NSF International
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a provider of global food safety certifications, has launched an online tool to help food companies assess their readiness for certification to standards benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). NSF International offers a free, 21-question…
NSF International
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a provider of global food safety certifications, has launched an online tool to help food companies assess their readiness for certification to standards benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). NSF International offers a free, 21-question…
FDA
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- A public-private organization will provide produce growers and packagers with fundamental, on-farm food safety knowledge, in advance of a proposed produce safety regulation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural…
Rob Snoeijs is a freelance technical writer for LayerWise.
LayerWise, a company based in Leuven, Belgium, focuses on selective laser melting (SLM), a powerful technology that shapes any desired metal-part geometry by melting metal powder layer by layer. Using this digital approach, the optimum…
ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions
(Carl Zeiss: Oberkochen, Germany) -- With DuraMax, Carl Zeiss offers a compact 3-D coordinate measuring machine (CMM). DuraMax Gear marks the evolution of DuraMax into a shop-floor gear-wheel measuring machine. “This enables us to fulfill the requests of many customers and introduce gear-wheel…
Boulder Imaging Inc.
(Boulder Imaging: Louisville, CO) -- Boulder Imaging Inc. highlighted its new Vision Inspector line of high-performance machine vision systems last week at FABTECH in Atlanta. Vision Inspector systems—the Beacon, Benchmark, and Guardian—are designed to monitor high-speed manufacturing machines and…
