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SAE International
(SAE: Warrendale, PA) -- The recently released “Engineer Employment Study for Mobility Industries, 2011–2016,” from SAE International finds that U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the automotive, aerospace, and commercial vehicles industries is too negative and overlooks the reality that…
Paul N. Gardner Co. Inc.
(Paul N. Gardner Co.: Pompano Beach, FL) -- The Paul N. Gardner Co. Inc., which serves world commerce through the distribution, production, and design of
quality physical-testing instruments for the paint, coatings, and related industries, announces its new coating thickness gauge, the MiniTest…
Edward D. Hess
These days small-business owners are faced with the difficult task of doing much more with a lot less. But even though they might be making cuts to their prices and budgets, now is not the time to start cutting great customer service out of their business plans.
The U.S. economy is still in a…
Mike Micklewright
In a 2009 book review for Bukisa.com, a blogger named Khead quoted from Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point (Little, Brown and Co., 2000): “‘In order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements.’ This is one detail that explains his Rule of 150. The…
Harry Hertz
Every few years the American Society for Quality (ASQ) conducts a Future of Quality study. The first phase of the 2011 study, which involves the use of a Delphi process to identify the key forces of change, has been completed recently. Using input from 150 panelists in 40 countries, the study…
Bruce Hamilton
It’s now been about four years since the Dow began its precipitous decline, and about three since the invention of the expression “too big to fail” entered our lexicon. Two years ago, the U.S. Treasury became a majority stockholder in another entity deemed too big to fail. Today, the expression…
UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Frugal companies succeed commercially in part because they consistently control spending and are resourceful with people and products rather than cutting costs reactively, according to a new University of California, Davis, study. The paper, “Corporate Frugality: Theory, Measurement and…
Microscan
Optical character recognition (OCR) is a vision system tool that is widely used in the packaging industry. Like bar code technology, OCR is a data-capture methodology. Its primary advantage is that it encodes information in a format that is both machine- and human-readable, while bar codes and…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(ROMER: North Kingstown, RI) -- ROMER Inc., a brand of Hexagon Metrology, has launched the CMS108, a high-precision, noncontact laser scanner available for the company’s portable coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). The newest option in ROMER’s laser scanning portfolio, the CMS108 is the most…
Jenoptik Industrial Metrology
(Jenoptik: Jena, Germany) -- Light and compact in design, easy to operate with long-lasting battery power, the Hommel-Etamic W5 surface roughness measuring system is ideally suited for measurements on the production line. Capable of a wide range of measuring tasks using an extensive array of…
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc.
(Konica Minolta: Ramsey, NJ) -- Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Inc. (KMSA), the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light, and shape, announces the release of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for the recently introduced FD-Series spectrodensitometers.
These new…
ASTM International
The additive manufacturing industry will greatly benefit from a new ASTM International standard that will allow computer-aided design programs, scanners, and 3-D graphical editors to communicate with 3-D printers and additive manufacturing equipment. The standard will answer the growing need within…
KPMG
(KPMG: New York) -- Demand is increasing for shared services models and internal process improvement as organizations look to enhance business performance, according to the KPMG 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Pulse Surveys. These Pulse surveys provide
insights into trends and projections in end-user…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- A new international standard detailing the level of competency required by those responsible for verifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been published. It is the latest addition to the toolbox of standards from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for…
Deloitte
(Deloitte: New York) -- Pricing is a powerful and proven strategy for improving profitability, yet few organizations know how to do pricing well. Pricing and Profitability Management: A Practical Guide for Business Leaders (Wiley, 2010), a new book released by Deloitte, helps organizations to…
Michelle LaBrosse
You are in the kitchen, surrounded by ingredients, and are asked to prepare a meal. As you look around, you notice that you have the usual: flour, sugar, eggs, milk, butter, meat, veggies, and fruit. You think, “No problem. I can whip something up in no time.” Then you take a second look around…
Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Already proven to increase efficiencies in the manufacturing sector, standard work has become a key element in reducing process waste, ensuring patient safety, and improving health care services. As part of the Taylor and Francis Lean Tools for…
L.S. Starrett Co.
(L.S. Starrett: Athol, MA) -- The SR200 Surface Roughness Tester from The L.S. Starrett Co. is a powerful, full-featured instrument that can be used either free-standing (e.g., on horizontal, vertical, or even inverted surfaces) or bench-mounted with fixtures for batch measurement and laboratory…
NSF International
(NSF: Salt Lake City) -- NSF International, a world leader in standards development, product certification,
education, and risk management for public health and safety, launched a new program to certify distributors who sell automotive aftermarket collision parts. The NSF Automotive Aftermarket…
BSI
(BSI: Reston, VA) -- Enhesa, a global environmental, health, and safety regulatory consultancy, and BSI Group America Inc., the maker of Entropy Software, an environmental health safety and quality (EHSQ) governance, risk, and compliance software, has formed a strategic partnership that will…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ) has launched its redesigned website, featuring a new home page. It’s one of the first steps in ASQ’s full-scale website rebuild, which aligns with the organizations’ recent brand transformation as The Global Voice of Quality. ASQ.org was…
MIT News
Power turbines may be a mature business, but they are also a booming one. This year General Electric received record orders for jet engines, and because natural gas is currently cheap, worldwide demand is increasing for gas turbines used in power plants, says Jeffrey Immelt, GE’s chairman and…
NIST
The electromagnetic force has gotten a little stronger, gravity a little weaker, and the size of the smallest “quantum” of energy is now known a little better. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has posted the latest internationally recommended values of the fundamental…
The QA Pharm
Responses to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Warning Letters and the FD483—a written notice of deficiencies found during inspections—are usually full of commitments. They involve what will be done to correct compliance problems, and when it will be done. The FDA has even started to ask…
Automated Precision Inc.
(API: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc. (API) has released its Radian Laser Tracker with the INNOVO Technology Platform. This new and advanced laser tracker changes the way that people use laser trackers. Radian brings with it advanced features that include I-Vision, ADM-Maxx, and a…
