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(GBMP: Boston, MA) -- The GBMP Lean Manufacturing Certificate Program—East is an eight-day learning event beginning Tues., Oct. 11, 2011, in Shirley, Massachusetts. It provides manufacturing and service professionals with fundamental tools and indispensable knowledge to implement continuous…
(3DX-Ray: Leicestershire, UK) -- 3DX-Ray Ltd., developer, manufacturer, and installer of X-ray inspection systems, has launched CatSpect, a new software module, within the 3DX-Ray standardized software suite, that will make the analysis of items even easier. A new icon-based interface enables…
(CRAIC: San Dimas, CA) -- CRAIC Technologies, a leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions, has introduced Lightswitch by CRAIC, an optical multiplexer for the ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) regions. This unit is designed to attach to an open photoport to…
(Accelper Consulting: Wheaton, IL) -- The Business Innovation Conference, which runs Oct. 10–12, 2011, at ITT Rice Campus in Wheaton, Illinois, is dedicated to the vigorous exchange of ideas on business innovation and innovative thinking. The conference, which is organized by Accelper…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. and Hendrick Motorsports have announced a multi-year partnership agreement that makes Hexagon Metrology the Official Provider of Dimensional Metrology Products and Services to Hendrick Motorsports.
Hendrick Motorsports, winner…
(MSI: Seattle) -- The new Dyna-Link 2, employing MSI’s ScaleCore technology, provides 24-bit A/D conversion and precision, 0.1-percent accuracy with standard
2,500 or optional 5,000 division resolution. More efficient processing
power allows extended continuous operating time to more than…
(Delcam: Birmingham, United Kingdom) -- Delcam has launched a new website for its PowerINSPECT CAD-based inspection software—www.powerinspect.com. The site details the many benefits that have made PowerINSPECT the world’s leading hardware-independent inspection software.
One of the most…
(Lion Technology: Las Vegas) -- Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added Peter Kuhn, former president and CEO of the French Gulf Mining and Bullion River Gold corporations, to their list of most wanted fugitives. Charged with illegal disposal of hazardous waste and…
(Kaplan EduNeering: Princeton, NJ) -- Kaplan EduNeering, a leading provider of online compliance and training management solutions, and Kaplan & Walker LLP, a U.S. law firm practicing exclusively in the area of corporate compliance and ethics (C&E) programs, are collaborating on a series…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- While most of us would say that hindsight is 20/20, the folks at the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program believe just the opposite for organizations that want to survive and thrive now and for years to come. To share the keys to 20/20 foresight—the ability to…
Counting the seconds until Metric Week (Oct. 9–15, 2011) begins? That’s the spirit! Seconds are the metric unit of time. You also could figure your distance in meters (the metric unit of length) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) labs in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where…
(HBM nCode: Southfield, MI) -- nCode, the leading brand of durability, test, and analysis products offered by HBM, will be releasing new solutions for thermo-mechanical fatigue calculations in the next release of nCode DesignLife version 8. It will enable a wide range of high-temperature…
(AlixPartners: Detroit) -- Most large manufacturers last year failed to reach their cost-savings targets, despite significant investments in lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other productivity programs as part of their overall retrenchment efforts in this tepid economy. Nearly 70 percent of…
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., a leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, has developed improvements to its laser scanner, the Focus3D. Complete with new features that enhance registration and remote functionality, this newest Focus3D represents FARO’s…
(McGraw-Hill: New York) -- The case studies throughout the book, Performance Improvement for Healthcare: Leading Change with Lean, Six Sigma, and Constraints Management (McGraw-Hill, 2011), illustrate successful performance improvement implementations that show how the combination of lean, Six…
(AMA: New York) -- When you procrastinate, you affect both your career and your personal life. The webinar, “Procrastination to Productivity: 6 Ways to Get Started, Get More Done and Have More Energy,” provided by the American Management Association (AMA) gives you step-by-step tools you can use…
(DCS: Troy, MI) -- Dimensional Control Systems Inc. (DCS), a provider of dimensional engineering software and consulting services, has announced that vice president Donald Jasurda will address aerospace engineers and manufacturers at the SAE 2011 AeroTech Congress and Exhibition. The event will…
(Third Wave Systems: Minneapolis) -- During last week’s EMO 2011, the international trade fair for the machine tool industry held in Hannover, Germany, Third Wave Systems introduced current customers and members of the international press to its newest machining modeling capabilities: part…
(NIMS: Fairfax, VA) -- Last year at the 2010 Manufacturing Summit, sponsored by the Swiss Business Hub and the National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS), U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor Jane Oates gave the attendees a three-part homework assignment dealing with the support and…
(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- NVision Inc., a leader in 3-D noncontact optical scanning for more than 21 years, recently provided an orthodontic company with the information it needed to recalibrate its CT scanner. The company, an orthodontic supplier, used NVision’s Engineering Service Division…
(Nikon Instruments: Melville, NY) -- Putting the power in the hands of the people for the fifth year running, Nikon Instruments Inc. announced today that its 2011 Small World Photomicrography Competition Popular Vote is open. Visitors to Nikon’s site will have until 5 p.m. EDT on Mon., Oct. 31,…
(AAMI: Arlington, VA) -- The challenges in managing medical devices on wireless and wired IT networks are the focus of a special Horizons magazine just released by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). The latest in a series of special-topic issues, this one…
(Ford: Dearborn, MI) -- Ford Motor Co. is putting design in the hands of enthusiasts with a new customizer website that features the 2012 Mustang. The automaker launched the site to let Mustang enthusiasts take advantage of the classic design with limitless possibilities.
“This site enables…
(Taylor Hobson: Leicester, UK) -- The Ultra Precision Benchtop 3D Optical Profiler from Taylor Hobson brings high-performance optical measurements within the reach of both precision manufacturing and research companies.
The Talysurf CCI Lite is an advanced type of measurement interferometer (…
(FODIS: Lustdorf, Switzerland) -- FODIS, a leader in the market for high-speed panoramic camera equipment, presents FODIS Measure 3D with new features, a combination of a fast, high-resolution, 360° panorama camera with innovative software packages. The FODIS Measure 3D allows direct 3-D…
