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AMETEK
(Ametek: Largo, FL) -- The new JOFRA hand-held pressure calibrator from AMETEK Calibration Instruments offers electrical generation of pressure or vacuum with the touch of a key. The calibrator features a unique built-in electrical pump system. No manual pump required.
The versatile HPC600 is…
Inter-Society Color Council
(ISCC: Reston, VA) -- The Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) announces a joint meeting of ISCC/ASTM/CIE Division 1 at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, on June 14–18. The meeting is titled “Standards: What they are—What should they be? What will they be?” The program will begin with…
Stewart Anderson
The latest Toyota recall, announced just last week, has sent analysts and pundits alike scurrying for explanations about what is wrong with one of the world’s largest automakers. The recall, ostensibly for sticking accelerator pedals, affects some 2.3 million vehicles in Canada and the United…
Michael Raphael
3-D digitizing technologies have been utilized in the industrial world for the last 20 years but are increasingly used in many other fields. One of the exciting, but unanticipated, uses of 3-D measurement tools has been their adoption by museums for sculpture conservation, research, and…
At a time when the world banking system is still fragile and most global companies are cutting costs in customer service, one UK company is investing seriously in its customers.
In an article that appeared in the Times on Jan. 16, in London, Andrew Higgins, CEO of Tesco Personal Finance,…
EAGLE Registrations Inc
(EAGLE Registrations Inc.: Dayton, OH) -- EAGLE Registrations Inc., a third-party certification body that audits businesses to international standards, is now accredited by ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) to offer ISO 13485 certification.
“EAGLE is excited to offer accredited ISO…
Bowers Metrology Group
(Bowers Metrology Group: West Yorkshire, UK) -- A welcome consequence of the extended travel capability of Bowers’ latest, state-of-the-art XT Xtreme Bore Gauge, is its unique ability to accurately measure the diameter of the helix grooves of internal ball screw components.
A highly efficient…
Williamson Corp.
(Williamson Corp.: Concord, MA) -- Williamson Corp.’s Gold Series single-wavelength infrared temperature sensors provide up to 0.25 percent of reading measurement accuracy for monitoring and controlling product quality and process productivity. Configurable for a multitude of applications where…
J.D. Power and Associates
(JD Power and Associates: Westlake Village, CA) -- Facing similar challenges to that of the domestic airline and auto industries—namely, rising costs and a lack of customers—the hotel industry has also been forced to slash operating costs and reduce staff in hopes of remaining competitive. But…
J.D. Power and Associates
(JD Power and Associates: Westlake Village, CA) -- Facing similar challenges to that of the domestic airline and auto industries—namely, rising costs and a lack of customers—the hotel industry has also been forced to slash operating costs and reduce staff in hopes of remaining competitive. But…
The Center for Industrial Effectiveness
(University at Buffalo: Buffalo, NY) -- Professionals who want to help their organizations become more efficient can take advantage of two new business improvement training courses offered by The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) at the University at Buffalo (UB), the state university of …
Spectronics Corp.
(Spectronics Corp.: Westbury, NY) -- Spectronics Corp. has introduced the powerful Spectroline TRITAN 365—an ultra-high-intensity, multi-LED, broad-beam UV-A inspection lamp perfect for nondestructive testing (NDT) applications.
The TRITAN 365 features three ultra-hi-flux UV-A LEDs for NDT…
Jon Miller
Editor's note: At the time this interview was published by Gemba Research LLC, Toyota hadn't announced a fix to the sticky accelerator issue that caused the company to recall approximately 2.3 million select vehicles. On Feb. 1, the company announced that its engineers have developed a solution…
Denise Robitaille
The new revision to ISO 9004 came off the press in the last quarter of 2009. It is significantly different from its predecessor. ISO 9004:2009 embodies the quality management principle relating to continual improvement. The technical experts made bold strides in their quest to address market…
Carla Kalogeridis
Serving as a volunteer for the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) during the last four years, Barbara Boroughf has discovered just how much she enjoys the chance to interact with others within the automotive sector. Even so, finding the time has not always been easy.
As global vice…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
(SME: West Springfield, MA) -- Manufacturing is poised for a rebound as it shakes off the ill effects of the recession. EASTEC, the largest annual precision manufacturing event on the East Coast, promises to be the place that manufacturers flock to as they look to upgrade their equipment and…
Systems2win
(Systems2win: Nashville, TN) -- Systems2win, a supplier of Excel templates for lean kaizen continuous improvement tools has introduced the Lean Starter Toolkit, which includes a selection of downloadable templates, videos, and instructions. This is a free downloadable trial package that covers 5S…
NIST
(NIST: Washington) -- President Barack Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget submitted today to Congress for the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposes a funding level of $918.9 million, a 7.3-percent increase over the FY 2010 appropriations for…
(Shimadzu Scientific Instruments: Columbia, MD) -- Shimadzu Scientific Instruments’ EMT series Servopulser fatigue testing machine is a new environmentally friendly option for dynamic strength testing. It operates exclusively on efficient electrical power. In addition, EMT testers do not generate…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Despite recent news reports to the contrary, quality processes are not stifling creativity at major U.S. corporations. In fact, some highly profitable companies are using unique approaches to strike a balance between efficiency and innovation, according to a new report released…
(Hitachi High Technologies: Tokyo) -- As the successor to the Hitachi TM-1000, the Hitachi TM3000 offers a dramatic improvement in all the features of the earlier device, including its compact size, ease of operation, and magnification. Through more attention to compact design, the surface area…
Now that the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have passed their own versions of sweeping health care reform legislation, the health care industry has its eyes and ears on lawmakers as they negotiate the details of a final, compromise measure.
At this time, it’s hard to predict what…
Stephen J. Marshall
Printed circuite board (PCB) manufacturing is moving rapidly up the technology ladder. Keeping internal processes current (and compliant) with new requirements, without disrupting existing customer demands, presents ongoing risks. To minimize potential failures, it is necessary to identify and…
Bill Kalmar
Every now and then I like to relax in my comfortable Lazy Boy chair and contemplate what’s going on in the world and how it affects my life. Being retired gives people that option. Obviously it is beyond me to change any of the following thoughts, but perhaps there is someone reading this who has…
Donald J. Wheeler
In my column of Jan. 7, “The Right and Wrong Ways of Computing Limits,” I looked at the problems in computing limits for average charts. This column will consider the right and wrong ways of computing limits for charts for individual values. As before, a data set will be given that you can use to…
