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Claromentis
(Claromentis Ltd.: Brighton, UK) -- The release of a comprehensive, customizable quality management suite by Claromentis addresses information and audit management in an integrated web-based suite that can fit seamlessly into existing information frameworks.
The Claromentis Quality Management…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- In an advance that sounds almost Zen, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a new type of pulsed laser that excels at not producing light…
(IAF: Sydney, Australia) -- It would not be an exaggeration to say that the ISO 9001 standard from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) brought about a revolution in the field of quality assurance. When initially published in 1987, the standard set a benchmark for evaluating…
EDAX Inc.
(EDAX Inc.: Mahwah, NJ) -- EDAX Inc., part of AMETEK Inc.’s Material Analysis Division, a provider of X-ray microanalysis and electron diffraction instrumentation, continues to lead the industry with its recent release of OIM 6.0. The software is the first microanalysis package written for 64-bit…
AIA
(AIA: Ann Arbor, Michigan) -- The Vision Show, held in Boston, May 25–27, had double the attendees of 2009’s show and conference. The positive response to the show and conference parallel the recovery of the market and growth in the industries that are seeking vision and imaging solutions. The…
Veeco Instruments Inc.
(Veeco Instruments Inc.: Plainview, NY) -- As part of its ongoing series of live webinars on 3-D, noncontact surface profilometry, Veeco Instruments Inc. will be hosting a free online seminar on “NonContact, 3-D Optical Surface Profilometry for Ophthalmic Manufacturing.” Andrew Masters, Ph.D.,…
SICK
(SICK: Minneapolis) -- Join SICK product experts in West Chester, Ohio, at the 2010 SICK Solutions Forum, June 23, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Cincinnati Marriott North Union Center to take part in hands-on product demonstrations and interactive displays as well as in-depth application and…
Smarter Solutions Inc.
(Smarter Solutions: Austin, TX) -- Smarter Solutions Inc. presents the webinar, “Design of Experiments in Multi-Industry Processes: Reducing Lead Times and Defective Rates,” on Wednesday, June 16, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. CDT.
Design of experiments (DOE) provides a structured approach where a…
MRPC
(MRPC: Butler, WI) -- MRPC, a single-source provider of medical device components and assemblies, continues its commitment to product quality and responsiveness by advancing the application of scientific molding across multiple manufacturing processes.
Scientific molding is a disciplined…
Teledyne DALSA
(DALSA: Billerica, MA) -- DALSA Corp., a global provider of machine vision technology, recently announced a new gigabit Ethernet (GigE)-ready vision appliance called GEVA, which stands for GigE Vision Appliance. Compatible with the full range of DALSA Genie and Spyder3 cameras, GEVA offers a cost-…
CMSC
(CMSC: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society invites you to join them for the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), July 12–16, at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada.
Why attend?
The latest in cutting-edge portable coordinate metrology systems, software, and…
Raissa Carey
Companies that apply heijunka to their production system understand the true meaning of the proverb, “Slow and steady wins the race.”
Heijunka is the concept of ending any variation of volume and/or product mix in the production system. This means that a company that applies heijunka doesn’t…
Thomas R. Cutler
There is no shortage of standards. There are standards that define how something should be made vs. those related to processes, such as ISO 9001. According to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), standards that provide requirements or give guidance on good management practice…
The Conference Board
(The Conference Board: New York) -- Although many companies lack the structural framework to enable proper director oversight of sustainability programs, they rarely consult outside expertise, according to a report released by The Conference Board. The report, “Sustainability in the Boardroom,”…
Michelle LaBrosse
When the summer sun beats down, there’s always someone in the family who reminds you to put on your sunscreen. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to easily avoid getting burned at work? There is. It’s called project management.
Grab a bottle of water, put on your baseball cap, and think…
Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
For more than 20 years, Toyota’s methods, known as “lean,” have made headlines. And that’s how long engineer, researcher, and author Mike Rother has been involved with the subject. Like many others, Rother began with Toyota’s production tools. And like many others, he found that these are…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- American actor and humorist Will Rogers once said, “A man only learns in two ways—one by reading and the other by association with smarter people.” Combining both those methods at its award-winning Manufacturing is Cool website, the SME Education Foundation seeks to…
CMSC
(CMS: Benbrook, TX)-- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) has announced the organization has chosen 25 technical white papers to be presented at its annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC), July 12–16, at the world class Grand Sierra Resort located in Reno.
White paper…
Buehler
(Buehler: Lake Bluff, IL) -- Buehler’s new OmniMet 9.5 image acquisition and quantitative analysis software improves lab efficiency and increases operator appeal compared to previous generations of the product. Specific improvements include browsing the database using a typical PC-style folder…
A2LA
(A2LA: Frederick, MD) -- The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) recently announced that its first U.S. medical testing laboratory has earned accreditation in accordance with the stringent international requirements of ISO 15189—“Medical laboratories—Particular requirements…
Sparta Systems Inc.
(Sparta Systems Inc.: Holmdel, N.J.) -- Sparta Systems Inc., the maker of TrackWise software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management solutions, has announced the general availability of version 8 of its TrackWise enterprise quality management solution (EQMS). Already…
MoreSteam.com
(MoreSteam: Columbus, OH) -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently granted patent rights to MoreSteam.com for inventions developed by MoreSteam’s president, Bill Hathaway. The patent covers advances introduced by MoreSteam several years ago in its popular EngineRoom data analysis…
Mettler-Toledo
(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo introduces the new VLM3 ‘A’ series dual-ended-beam weigh module. The VLM3 is now available in painted carbon steel or glass bead blasted stainless steel mounting hardware. Carbon steel assemblies are provided with the nickel plated alloy steel…
Verisurf Software Inc.
(Verisurf Software: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf Software and Mastercam resellers will present a Master3DGage webinar that will introduce the new affordable, portable Master3DGage coordinate measuring machine (CMM) designed for rapid machine-shop inspection.
Unlike expensive fixed CMMs with 2-D…
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
(U.S. Army Research Laboratory: Adelphi, MD) -- As the need for chemical, biological, and explosive detection becomes more relevant in today’s world, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is leading the effort in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), which is capable of highly advanced…
