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(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. and Hendrick Motorsports have announced a multiyear partnership agreement that makes Hexagon Metrology the official provider of dimensional metrology products and services to Hendrick Motorsports.
Hendrick Motorsports, winner of a record…
(Rapidform Inc.: Lakewood, CO) -- INUS Technology Inc., a world leader in providing technology, services, and software to unlock the power of 3-D scanning, announces the latest release of its turnkey Software Development Kit (SDK) for 3-D scanning application development. The updated version of…
(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 71M series, a family of rugged, undamped subminiature surface…
(Pyzdek Institute: Tucson) -- The Pyzdek Institute LLC has added two online lean training classes to its portfolio of online courses on process excellence topics. The new courses are written and presented by Thomas Pyzdek, author of The Six Sigma Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2009), The Handbook of…
(The Joint Commission: Oakbrook Terrace, IL) -- The Joint Commission, a health-care accrediting body, and SGS Group, a verification, inspection, certification, and testing company, are joining forces to offer hospitals and critical-access hospitals in the United States the option of pursuing…
(Columbia Business School: New York) -- Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness has announced the winners of the second annual Deming Cup. The winners received the award at a dinner at Columbia University on Nov. 2, 2011. The Deming Cup…
(Bosch Rexroth: Hoffman Estates, IL) -- Developed with lean manufacturing expert, Richard Rahn, Rexroth’s lean manufacturing podcast episode 17, “Lean Transformation in the Aerospace Supply Chain,” explores how to apply lean manufacturing concepts to the aerospace industry to improve…
(RWJF: Houston) -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced an Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) $100,000 “app challenge”—a competition among technology developers to create easy-to-use online tools that help consumers find information on the quality of their local physicians…
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), a global nonprofit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals who use knowledge to create high-quality, cost-effective good manufacturing practices (GMP) solutions, will soon…
(Pipeline Analytics: Pittsburgh) -- New for WinCan V8 pipe inspection and asset management software, the WinCan Laser module from Pipeline Analytics makes it easy to capture pipeline geometry using a video-inspection crawler outfitted with practically any laser profiling hardware.
“Until now,…
(QuantumVision Corp.: Roswell, GA) -- QuantumVision Corp., manufacturer, designer, and implementer of custom machine vision solutions, has created the Hammerhead, the industry’s first 3-D stereo smart vision system. The system integrates twin 1.3 megapixel imagers and 5 megapixel gray scale or…
(InnovMetric: Québec City, Canada) -- InnovMetric Software Inc., a global supplier of industrial 3-D metrology software solutions, is proud to unveil the world’s first relational inspection solution with PolyWorks v. 12. The new relational inspection architecture analyzes every single step in a…
(Agistix: Redwood City, CA)--Agistix, a global provider of transportation management solutions, has announced the launch of Total Visibility. This packaged solution delivers real-time visibility to counter blind spots of inbound, third-party, and international shipment data which have…
(Techno-Omil: New Hyde Park, NY) -- A new series of two-finger parallel grippers from Techno-Omil feature a heavy-duty T-slot design. Identified as the OPP2 series, these nine grippers feature a stroke range from 12 mm to 72 mm and a gripping force from 420 N to 8410 N. Their range of operating…
(REIS: Obernburg, Bavaria) -- REIS Robotics, a leader in system integration of robots, has completely revised its RH robot series and greatly improved its use for removal, insertion, and spray robots in the casting foundry.
The series comprises two robot types with six axes up to a load…
(IDS: Woburn, MA) -- IDS GmbH, the headquarters for IDS Imaging Development Systems and a global leader in machine vision technology, has unveiled the UI–2280SE, an ideal all-round camera with USB 2.0 interface and Sony ICX655 CCD sensor in 5 megapixel resolution (2448 pixels × 2050 pixels). The…
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., a global provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, has launched the next generation of its innovative laser scanner, the Focus3D. Complete with new features that enhance registration and remote functionality, this newest Focus3D…
(Capture 3D: Farmington Hills, MI) -- To better service its growing customers and address the increased demand for automated solutions, Capture 3D has relocated its Novi, Michigan, facility to Farmington Hills, Michigan. With twice the size, this new facility includes increased space for the…
(Assembly Guidance: Chelmsford, MA) -- Assembly Guidance Systems Inc., a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of high-performance laser projection systems for manual manufacturing and quality monitoring, has delivered a 20-projector laser system for wind-turbine blade fabrication.
Following a…
(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a major catalyst for improvements in health care quality in the United States and around the world, will host its 23rd Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care Dec. 4–7, 2011, at the Orlando World Center…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology has announced the relocation of its Michigan Precision Center to a purpose-built, state-of-the-art facility on a campus-like setting in Wixom, Michigan. The 26,000 sq. ft. facility includes a spacious calibration laboratory, enhanced…
(API: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc. (API), designer, manufacturer, and supplier of machine-tool calibration systems and precision measuring instruments, continues to advance the cause of metrology and precision measurement for the future with a recent gift to the University of North…
Geomagic, a global provider of 3-D software for creating and inspecting digital models of physical objects, has announced that its 3-D imaging and reverse engineering software, Geomagic Studio, has been used to create the highest resolution, most dimensionally accurate 3-D digital model ever of…
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- More than 100 metrology and manufacturing professionals gathered to visit the new Nikon Metrology Technology Center, located at the company’s Headquarters for the Americas in Brighton, Michigan. The event introduced one of the most advanced technology centers…
(NSF International: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a global organization that certifies products and writes standards for food, water, and consumer goods, has launched a new program to help manufacturers gain global market access for water treatment, distribution, and plumbing products.…
