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Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology has released the Optiv Classic 321GL tp vision sensor measuring system, which will be assembled at its North Kingstown, Rhode Island, facility for the North American market. This benchtop vision measuring machine features 6.5X motorized computer…
AIAG
(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- Bob Lutz, the “Ultimate Car Guy” and former vice chairman of General Motors Co., is the keynote speaker at the 2012 AIAG Supply Chain Summit held May 8–9, 2012, in Troy, Michigan. In keeping with the theme, “Managing Recovery: Volume Pressure on the Supply Chain,” the…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: Washington, D.C.) -- Twenty-one federal government representatives from 10 different agencies met at the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) headquarters in Washington, D.C., for the third “Interagency Best Practices—ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024” meeting on April 11, 2012. The biannual…
Gallup
Companies that lead the world in growth have something in common: a relentless focus on talent. They are very intentional about this. The executives who lead these companies have created high-performing operating systems.
From decades of work with companies to implement these systems, Gallup has…
Marc Gunther
Zero is a good number when it comes to sustainability. Zero emissions. Net-zero energy buildings. And of course, zero waste. Zero waste is radical. It’s attainable. It’s good business. And it’s cool.
I’ve been excited by the idea of zero waste ever since I wrote a FORTUNE story called “The End of…
Teledyne DALSA
(Teledyne: Waterloo, ON) -- Teledyne DALSA, designer and manufacturer of digital imaging solutions, and provider of semiconductor products and services, will highlight its multispectral, aerospace, IR, and custom CCD and CMOS sensors and cameras at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference…
Plex Systems Inc.
(Plex: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Plex Systems Inc., provider of Plex Online FSMS, a leading enterprise food-safety management system, is offering a webinar called “Ensure Readiness for SQF Changes,” which will take place May 1, 2012, at 1 p.m. EDT. Click here to register for this informative webinar.…
Setra Systems
(Setra: Boxborough, MA) -- Setra Systems Inc., a designer and manufacturer of pressure sensor instruments and products, has announced the availability for online purchase of more than 30 of its most popular pressure, humidity, current, barometric, and vacuum sensing product families at www.setra.…
FLIR
(FLIR: Portland, OR) -- FLIR Systems has unveiled the FLIR T420 and T440 thermal imagers. These high-performance infrared cameras enable imaging capabilities that help professionals find and capture problems more easily and with dramatically more vivid thermal images.
MSX thermal image enhancement…
Bruker Corp.
(Bruker: Wien, Austria) -- During the 2012 Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Convention and Exposition held recently in Las Vegas, Bruker, a developer, manufacturer, and provider of scientific instruments and analytical services, introduced the S1 TITAN handheld XRF analyzer. The S1…
NIST
Two new advanced laboratory buildings for high-precision science and measurements have officially opened in Boulder, Colorado, providing upgraded facilities to support technology innovation and economic growth as well as the training of future scientists.
Federal, state, and local government…
Jay Arthur—The KnowWare Man
There’s a lot of buzz about “data analytics”—mining huge data sets to discover invisible patterns of customer behavior that can be leveraged to maximize sales. But I’ve found that few people know how to mine the hidden improvement projects from existing “small data” using Excel’s PivotTables.
Over…
North Star Imaging
(NSI: Rogers, MN) -- North Star Imaging (NSI) has developed a groundbreaking industrial X-ray technology, 4-D X-ray computed tomography, which NSI calls “4D CT.” NSI’s patent-pending product is considered the future of industrial 3-D X-ray inspection.
4-D X-ray CT allows users to reconstruct a…
Verisurf Software Inc.
(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf Software has released its new Validate software application. The software provides precise CAD model translation validation by comparing the authority CAD model to the translated CAD model, enabling manufacturers to quickly identify any translation error.
“The…
Smarter Solutions Inc.
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Health care and other organizations often report performance metrics through a table of numbers, pie charts, stacked bar charts, red-yellow-green scorecards with variance to goals, or time series charts. Running a facility by using this form of historical data…
Wiley
(Wiley: Hoboken, NJ) -- If you want to make your organization or team more productive, you have to change the way it thinks. Lean Six Sigma is a winning technique improve performance, but the jargon-packed language and theory of lean Six Sigma can be intimidating for both beginners and experienced…
ASTM International
(ASTM International: West Conshohocken, PA) -- Responding to increasing requests from suppliers and their customers, ASTM International has developed a new program, the Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity. Launched in April 2012, this latest offering is an outgrowth of ASTM International’s…
ISPE
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) — The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), which provides an educational forum for the pharmaceutical industry, has brought together a substantial lineup of global regulatory officials and pharmaceutical industry leaders to be plenary speakers at the Food…
Michael Causey
While calling it one of the more “egregious” examples he’s seen or heard about, Fisher Wallace Labs (FWL) CEO Chip Fisher said the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) attempt to “force its own agenda” over dissenting science or how its own advisory boards vote on medical device classification is…
Akhilesh Gulati
Given the current dynamic business environment, there is a tremendous need for operational agility and the ability to quickly respond to changing market forces. Time to value (TtV) is an important metric that can be used to manage such environmental conditions. It can drive the development of…
William A. Levinson
Loss of American manufacturing capability to low-wage countries is but one part of the overall problem with the U.S. economy. The other part consists of a shortage of skilled workers, given that a high school diploma is no longer adequate for many manufacturing jobs. Brooklyn’s Pathways in…
American National Standards Institute ANSI
(ANSI: Washington, DC) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in partnership with 27 leading organizations from across the U.S. standardization community, have coordinated a free online resource—the Standards Boost Business (SBB)—designed to help U.S. businesses understand the power of…
Lennox Hill Ltd.
(Lennox: London) -- Lennox Hill Ltd. has launched version 2.0 of its complaints-handling module as part of its long-term plan of continuously adding features and modules to its online isoTracker Quality Management Software.
The upgrade to the Customer Complaints module is intended to give it an…
ASQ Silicon Valley
(Silicon Valley ASQ: Santa Clara, CA) -- Silicon Valley ASQ, Section 0613 invites you to participate in the following quality education courses. Along with a full schedule of monthly meeting events and activities, SV ASQ offers educational opportunities in quality. Here are the technical and…
CMSC
(CMSC: New Orleans, LA) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, will host a series of “pilot” certification examinations at its 28th annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), July 16–20, 2012, at The Roosevelt…
