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(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, an independent global organization that writes public health standards and certifies products for food, water, and consumer goods, now offers chemical reviews in accordance with Clean Production Action’s (CPA) GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals program.…
(WCBF: Chicago) -- The Worldwide Conventions and Business Forums (WCBF), an independent organization headquartered in Chicago that researches and produces high-quality, senior-level lean, Six Sigma, and process excellence events, has a predominant mission for 2012. Its mission is to save as many…
(University at Buffalo: Buffalo, NY) -- The ISO 13485 internal auditor training program from the University at Buffalo provides the skills necessary to perform process audits in the medical device industry, which results in findings for continual improvement. Participants learn audit activities and…
(CMSC: New Orleans, LA) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society, the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, has announced that its 28th annual Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) will be held July 16–20, 2012, in New Orleans at The Roosevelt Hotel. The five-day…
(Meggitt: San Juan Capistrano, CA) -- Meggitt Sensing Systems, designer and manufacturer of high-performance sensing and monitoring systems for air and land-based machinery in extreme environments, has introduced the Endevco model 28959F/28959FV, a portable accelerometer shaker and calibration…
(ASTM: West Conshohocken, PA) -- For several years, the ASTM International Committee E11 on Quality and Statistics has been preserving military sampling standards no longer supported by the U.S. Department of Defense. The latest ASTM standard to emerge from this program is ASTM E2819—“Practice for…
(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Fluke Corp., a global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, has introduced the 430 Series II three-phase power quality analyzers, the first tools to use a patented algorithm to measure energy waste and quantify its cost. The 430 Series II helps…
(STR-R: Stroudsburg, PA) -- STR-Registrar (STR-R), a leading provider of management system registration services, recently became the first certification body to receive accreditation from ACLASS for its good manufacturing practices (GMP) factory-assessment program for over-the-counter (OTC) drugs…
(Artel: Westbrook, ME) -- Tecan, developer and manufacturer of solutions in the life science supply industry, has partnered with Artel the worldwide leader in liquid handling quality assurance to offer the QC Kit, a fully integrated performance verification solution for Tecan’s Freedom EVO liquid…
(Land Instruments: Dronfield, England) -- A new monitoring system for critical vessels uses thermal imaging cameras to provide higher measurement density than traditional systems based on thermocouples. The Critical Vessel Monitoring System from Land Instruments International, a unit of AMETEK,…
(Mahr Federal: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Federal, manufacturer of production dimensional measuring technology, will feature the addition of an economical and powerful skidless surface evaluation system to its MarSurf line of mobile surface metrology systems at Quality Expo Texas 2012, scheduled for…
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and representatives from the medical device industry have reached an agreement in principle on proposed recommendations for the third reauthorization of a medical device user fee program.
The recommendations would authorize the FDA…
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Danish Standards (DS, the ISO member for Denmark) have jointly published a handbook on geometrical product specifications (GPS) for which nearly 120 ISO standards provide a globally harmonized base for technical drawing,…
(Lista: Holliston, MA) -- Lista International Corp., manufacturer of industry’s broadest line and customized storage and workspace solutions, offers its heavy-duty CNC tool storage cabinets and tool transporters, which form the core of the most complete storage system for the modern machining…
(InfinityQS: Chantilly, VA) -- The order is set, supply has arrived, and your team has momentum. After you’ve done everything else right, don’t let defects and defectives take success away by adding time, costs, and effort to what should be an easy win.
This no-cost two-part webinar series will…
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology has released CoreView 6.0 for the Cognitens WLS400 series. Winner of Photonic Tech Brief’s 2011 Reader’s Choice Product of the Year, the WLS400 white light series is available in both automated and manual configurations. Coreview 6.0, the latest…
(Vision Components: Ettlingen, Germany) -- VC Smart Inspect, the new vision sensor from Vision Components, the image processing experts, is an ultracompact and complete machine vision solution for a wide range of industrial applications. Featuring a 700 MHz processor with a computing power of 5,600…
(FasTest: Minneapolis) -- FasTest announces TwistMate AN Step connectors for calibrating flow transmitters on flow benches. TwistMate AN Step connectors simplify flow bench step tree connections by delivering fast, leak-tight, threaded connections without the use of thread sealant and wrenches, and…
(Mitutoyo: Aurora, IL) Mitutoyo America Corp. has released its new, High-Accuracy Digimatic Digital Micrometer, the first micrometer to offer 0.1 μm resolution measurement. Now high-accuracy measurement can be had in a convenient, handheld tool.
The High-Accuracy Digimatic Micrometer uses the…
(Infinity: Chantilly, VA) -- InfinityQS International, a leading provider of real-time quality control software solutions, has announced that six of the 10 2011 IndustryWeek (IW) Best Plants use its ProFicient statistical process control (SPC) platform for quality control and operational…
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- An emerging trend in laser scanning and building information modeling (BIM) comes from the adoption of repetitive scanning or ongoing project scanning. Here scans are taken at the very inception of the project, integrated into the model, and are continually taken to update…
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- While teens rank some STEM-related (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers as offering the best chance of getting a job in the future, 67 percent of youth in grades 6–12 who are interested in pursuing a career in STEM say they are concerned about the obstacles they…
(Juran Institute: Southbury, CT) -- Juran Institute Inc. has announced the acquisition of Baldrige.com into its family of quality solutions and services. The site is not the same as the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Baldrige Performance Excellence Program site, which can be…
(Boulder Imaging: Louisville, CO) -- Boulder Imaging, a leading imaging solutions company for machine vision applications, is releasing a new version of its Benchmark in- or off-line optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM).
Benchmark provides precise micron-level part measurement and…
(Uson: Houston) -- Quality engineers seeking leak-detection equipment that can be custom-configured to their unique test application requirements can now obtain a competitively priced and first-of-a-kind leak and flow tester from Uson, the Optima vT leak and flow tester.
Uson’s Optima vT includes…
