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Productivity Press
(Productivity Press: New York) -- Written by Raymond Floyd, an unparalleled leader of lean transformations, Liquid Lean: Developing Lean Culture in the Process Industries provides potential process industry change agents with the no-nonsense guide needed to eliminate waste and…
Whitehouse Scientific
(Whitehouse Scientific: Chester, UK) -- At Powtech 2010, which happens on April 27–29 in Nürnberg, Germany, Whitehouse Scientific will exhibit the company’s new opaque standards for particle size analysis. Managing director Graham Rideal, Ph.D., will also present a lecture as part of the World…
Sherborne Sensors Inc.
(Sherborne Sensors Inc.: Wyckoff, New Jersey) -- Sherborne Sensors, a designer and manufacturer of inclinometers, accelerometers, force transducers, load cells, rotary encoders, instrumentation, and accessories for military and aerospace customers, has introduced the U2000 series of load cells.…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- In this challenging economy, companies are more conscious than ever about balancing the need for quality products and services with efficient and cost-effective operations. The key to success lies in outstanding leadership and innovative thinking—key traits demonstrated by the…
Dave Maxham
A joint project of NCMS called Volumetric Accuracy for Large Machine Tools (VALMT), partnering Automated Precision, Boeing, Siemens and Mag Cincinnati, has pioneered an innovative process and established new methodology in volumetric error compensation for large machine tools. Volumetric error…
Vigneshwaran Chandran
Testing times for the automotive industry continues as uncertainty looms over an anticipated sales rebound in developed markets in 2010. While some forecasters expect demand contraction owed to scrappage incentives in 2009, most expect full year sales in Western Europe and North America to grow…
Bill Kalmar
Have you noticed that the world is getting crazier by the minute? Every day we hear about someone in search of his or her 15 minutes of fame or someone who operates on a different wave length than the rest of the civilized world, and in some instances, quality and performance excellence have taken…
(Nikon Metrology: Leuven, Belgium) -- Nikon Metrology and Magestic Systems Inc. (MSI) jointly introduce an innovative fabrication solution for increasing production of right-first-time composite parts that harnesses the vast capabilities of both Nikon Metrology’s Laser Radar technology and MSI…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology announces the release of DataPage+, a completely new version of the long-running DataPage product, which provides seamless integration with PC-DMIS, the de facto standard measuring software. DataPage+ provides meaningful,…
FARO
(FARO Technologies: Lake Mary, FL) -- In today’s ultracompetitive manufacturing world, knowledge is power, especially when it comes to knowing about the industry’s most advanced measurement and inspection systems.
To that end, FARO Technologies and Quality Digest are partnering to offer…
Delcam
Delcam’s PowerINSPECT can now label individual points within point clouds from laser scanners.
(Delcam plc, Birmingham, UK) -- Delcam has launched the 2010 version of its PowerINSPECT inspection software, which offers even easier inspection of parts,…
(Automated Precision Inc.: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc. today announced that its pioneering efforts in volumetric accuracy for large machine tools (VALMT) was recognized this week with a Defense Manufacturing Excellence Award presented by the National Center for Advanced…
(3D Engineering Solutions: Cincinnati, OH) -- 3D Engineering Solutions helps OEM’s take advantage of 3-D laser scanning (link to www.3d-engineering.net/3d-digitizing.htm) data collection and CAD modeling tools to reduce overhead/capital expenses in the design, tooling, and quality assurance…
Bob Cramblitt
Although he’s not one for clichés, Rus Emerick, process improvement specialist at Schneider-Electric, endorses this one: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
This concept, which dates back to Aristotle, is at the core of an approach called functional analysis that has…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- A new survey from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) asking medical device manufacturers about industry trends and challenges shows a majority (64.7%) identify health care legislation as having a negative effect on the industry in the year ahead. Increased FDA oversight and…
(Wiley Blackwell: Woodland Hills, CA) -- Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs are payment models that reward workers for meeting certain performance measures for quality and efficiency. In the health care setting, P4P programs use a variety of methods to reward physicians financially for achieving…
Renishaw
(Renishaw: Torino, Italy) -- GE Oil & Gas, in Florence, Italy, has transformed the performance of a DEA Global coordinate measuring machine (CMM) with a REVO retrofit scanning probe system from Renishaw, producing higher data collection rates to allow form analysis—a function previously not…
(Jon M. Huntsman School of Business: Logan, UT) -- The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business announced that Stephen R. Covey, an internationally recognized authority on leadership and a best-selling author, has agreed to join its faculty as a tenured, full professor at Utah State University and the…
Shaw Resources
(Shaw Resources: Issaquah, WA) -- Shaw Resources, developer of Scorebook Navigator (SBN) software for scoring Baldrige-based performance assessments, has announced that Nebraska Furniture Mart successfully demonstrated a new use for the software during a recent internal self-assessment.
Brian…
Ron Rode
As “Old Man Winter” continues to toss his wrath at many of us, it is quite easy to turn our thoughts toward warmer, sunnier places. One of those locations we are all starting to think about is Reno, Nevada, the location for the 2010 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) hosted by the…
Leica Geosystems
(Leica Microsystems: Heerbrugg, Switzerland) -- Digital technologies have revolutionized everyone’s work and everyday lives. In particular, industrial quality control—which places the most stringent requirements on macroscopic and microscopic imaging and image processing—benefits from innovative,…
redOrbit
With a silicone rubber “stick on” sheet containing dozens of miniature, powerful lenses, engineers at Harvard are one step closer to putting the capacity of a large laboratory into a microsized package.
The marriage of high-performance optics with microfluidics could prove the perfect match for…
A spring-loaded guided core AC-LVDT is an air-extended, spring retracted LVDT offering consistent measurement for dimensional gauging, factory automation, and similar position measurement applications.
Linear variable…
Xspect Solutions Inc.
(Xpect Solutions: Wixom, MI) -- In recent years, Southfield, Michigan-based Bradley-Thompson Tool Co. has focused its precision machining know-how on the aerospace industry—particularly on complex gear box castings.
“We’ve been successful in carving out a niche for ourselves on specific parts…
Toyota Motor Sales
(Toyota Motor Corp.: Tokyo) -- At a press conference on Feb. 17 in Tokyo, regarding quality related issues, the Toyota Motor Corp. (TMC) announced the following:
Japan-market recall progress
The company has completed preparations for recall repair for the Toyota “Sai” and Lexus “HS250h,” and…
