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Cole-Parmer
(Cole-Parmer: Vernon Hills, IL) — A new series of i-LAB hand-held analyzing spectrometers from Cole-Parmer offers the convenience of portability. Weighing only 7.4 ounces each, the compact battery-operated instrument enables users to go directly to the sample source. For those who test water…
(IndustryWeek: Cleveland) -- Are you under pressure to reduce supplier lead times while driving down costs? Learn how Rockwell Automation transformed its procurement processes with improved supplier communication, visibility, and data quality. You’ll hear how the company automated and streamlined…
Laurel Thoennes @ Quality Digest
(ASTD: Alexandria, VA) -- Each spring the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) holds the ASTD International Conference & Exposition. This premier event for workplace learning and performance professionals welcomes attendees from more than 70 countries. This year, it takes…
Greg Hutchins
“I think we now live in an era when many of the concerns in running organizations are being reframed in terms of risk, which suggests that risk professionals are likely to rise to the top.”
(Source: “Managing Risk in the New World,” Harvard Business Review, October 2009)
My basic message is…
NIST
NIST physicist Sae Woo Nam works with refrigeration equipment used to cool photon detectors to nearly absolute zero. His team’s efforts have created devices that can detect single photons with 99-percent efficiency.
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Scientists at the National…
Cognex Corp.
(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. introduces Advantage Image Engines, a family of programmable vision devices for original equipment manufacturers (OEM). Advantage Image Engines offer superior 1-D barcode and 2-D Data Matrix code reading, plus a full suite of industry-proven Cognex vision…
(Utah State University: Logan, UT) -- See and experience firsthand what is at the heart of the lean business model in Japan through a series of plant tours, workshops, and networking with peers, Sept. 10–18. This will truly be a life- and career-changing trip. Implement just 10 percent of…
Numerical Algorithms Group
(Numerical Algorithms Group: Oxford, UK) -- Quality engineers seeking better use of the processing power of multicore computer systems, in addition to an easy way to migrate existing applications to multiprocessor architectures, can now download the new NAG Library for symmetric multiprocessor…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Dreieich, Germany) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, opened on April 15, a global food testing laboratory devoted solely to helping contain costly and life-threatening chemical contamination crises. The Food Safety Response Center,…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a new competition for high-risk, high-reward research funding under the Technology Innovation Program (TIP). The new TIP competition offers cost-shared funding for innovative research on “…
CRC Press
(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Covering health care from clinical to nutritional services, Applying Lean in Healthcare: A Collection of International Case Studies (CRC Press, 2010), published April 15, introduces key concepts of lean health care and presents real-life examples to illustrate the…
ARTEL
(Artel: Westbrook, ME) — Artel has unveiled its Multichannel Verification System (MVS) with several significant enhancements that provide additional capabilities for understanding the performance of automated liquid handlers. The Artel MVS now generates measurements—traceable to national and…
NIST
Researcher, Tara Lovestead, prepares a sample of meat (by excising a few milligrams) for testing with a new sampling method developed by Lovestead and NIST research chemist, Tom Bruno, that can detect trace amounts of low volatility compounds produced when perishable…
Keith Kokal
The collapse of the global economy has put a lot of manufacturing companies out of business. Even at this late stage of the recession, there are still auctions of recently closed plants conducted every day. There are many more manufacturers struggling to reduce their operating costs and improve…
AICON 3D Systems
(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- In the past, free-form tubes were in demand primarily from the furniture business for design reasons. These days, demand is generated from all industrial areas. Consequently, more tube benders need measuring systems that take the particular problems of complex…
Pilgrim Quality Solutions
(Pilgrim Software Inc.: Tampa, FL) -- Pilgrim Software Inc., a provider of enterprise risk, compliance, and quality management software solutions, has partnered with The Winvale Group, a provider of information technology solutions to the United States’ public sector. In conjunction with The…
LaserLinc Inc.
(LaserLinc: Fairborn, OH) -- LaserLinc is introducing a new option in its proprietary Total Vu software package: customizable reports from Microsoft Excel templates.
For this option, Total Vu users can set up report templates in Microsoft Excel, specifying desired layout features. The user…
(emergn: New York and London) -- emergn, a global professional services and business agility firm, has announced that the company is launching its lean and agile training series, emergnEducation, in North America. After strong success in Europe, emergnEducation will offer a rich curriculum based…
Rapidform Inc.
(INUS Technology Inc.: Seoul, South Korea) -- INUS Technology Inc. announces that Rapidform XOR3 is directly compatible with five leading computer-aided design (CAD) software applications. Rapidform was the first 3-D scanning software to feature direct interfaces to CAD, enabling users to scan…
Advanced Test Equipment Rentals
(Advanced Test Equipment Rentals: San Diego, CA) -- The SRM-3006 Selective Radiation Meter is Narda Safety Test Solutions’ second generation, hand-held system for performing narrowband analysis of electromagnetic fields. The SRM-3006 has the ability to provide results of individual emitters and…
ARTEL
(Artel: Orlando, FL) -- It has been said that time is money. In the world of life science research, whether at a research university, in pharmaceutical drug discovery operations, or in high-throughput screening labs, that phrase can be amended to “downtime is money.” With regard to today’s…
Terry Kosdrosky
When the phrase “social network” comes to mind, people generally think about Facebook or Twitter. Volumes of academic studies have been written on this relatively new phenomenon.
But engineers who design such complex products as automobiles and airplanes have been operating within their own…
During the past six years, the Harrington Institute and its business partners have been involved in community improvement efforts that have produced significant results within the organizations involved. The thrust of the effort in the Orlando, Florida, community involved 25 projects and the…
Underwriters Laboratories UL
(UL: Northbrook, IL) -- Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global provider of safety testing and certification, was recently named the exclusive nationally recognized testing laboratory for The EV Project, a groundbreaking study of electric vehicle (EV) charging station infrastructure. The company…
The Un-Comfort Zone With Robert Wilson
Seventeen years ago, I became the president of my community association. It was a lively organization with scores of activist members who were busy gentrifying an inner city neighborhood. One of my responsibilities was to deliver a monthly speech and conduct a formal meeting with a loud and…
