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The U.S. Commerce Secretary, Penny Pritzker, has named four organizations as the 2016 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest presidential honor for sustainable excellence through visionary leadership, organizational alignment, systemic improvement and…
The advancement of dimensional scanning technology has allowed massive amount of point cloud data to be obtained quickly. This data is used for analysis and reverse-engineering functions. Generally, once this data is collected, it will be polygonized into a mesh which allows for easier data…
The advancement of dimensional scanning technology has allowed massive amount of point cloud data to be obtained quickly. This data is used for analysis and reverse-engineering functions. Generally, once this data is collected, it will be polygonized into a mesh which allows for easier data…
Dedicated members of the PrecisionPath Consortium gathered recently near the UNC Charlotte campus for their fourth working meeting and Technology Innovation Workshop in Charlotte, NC. The Coordinate Metrology Society and UNC Charlotte pilot the industry-driven coalition to advance large-scale…
Being able to be in two places at once has been a dream for many metrologists in the measurement services business. Taking a page from the field of artificial intelligence (AI), ATT Metrology developed an “Expert System” to perform a wide range of measurement tasks based on more than 20 years of…
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Introducing the 360º Flexible Measurement Cell (360º FMC) from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence North America Integrated Solutions Group. What makes the 360º FMC unique is that it is the first automated measurement work cell to seamlessly integrate flexibility,…
With this year’s Coordinate Metrology Society Conference (CMSC) behind us and 2016 rapidly coming to a close, new ideas are moving into full swing for CMSC 2017 in Snowbird, UT. The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) is in the process of revamping the conference agenda and addressing requested new…
(Creaform: Lévis, Quebec) -- Creaform, the worldwide leader in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, recently announced that it has added multiple new features to VXmodel, its post-treatment scan-to-CAD software module, and VXinspect, its dimensional inspection software…
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO (NASDAQ:FARO), the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement and imaging solutions for factory metrology, product design, construction BIM/CIM, public safety forensics, and 3D solutions and services applications, announces the launch of a new addition to its…
(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA) -- Cerritos College has been recognized as the first community college in California to offer a coordinate metrology certificate of achievement approved by the Chancellor’s office.
The program was made possible through the collaborative efforts of the teaching staff and…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- You may have seen it on CSI: The star examines hair from a crime scene and concludes its color or texture looks like the defendant’s hair, or maybe his dog’s. Case closed.
But looks can be deceiving, as well as vague and subjective. In real life, the FBI is now…
(API: Rockville, MD) -- Kam Lau, Ph.D., CEO of Automated Precision Inc., recently announced the appointment of Song Chung as the company’s new senior vice president.
Song Chung comes to API following a 20-year career with Perceptron Inc., where most recently he had been senior vice president and…
(InnovMetric: Quebec) -- InnovMetric Software Inc., the leading provider of universal 3D metrology software solutions, proudly announces that it has launched PolyWorks Europa, a new European subsidiary, to promote the PolyWorks Universal 3D Metrology Software Platform in the industrial…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer, Fiscal Year 2014, Summary Report to the President and Congress. Including both quantitative and qualitative measures of effectiveness, the report provides the most current…
(Banner: Minneapolis, MN) -- Banner Engineering has added flush mount housings to its rugged, industry-leading series of Q4X laser distance measurement sensors. The new flush mount configuration offers a more compact housing to expand applications and increase mounting flexibility in constrained…
In today’s global supply chain, shipping a product across the world isn’t as simple as loading it onto a truck, train, or boat and signing a few papers. International shipments often involve coordination between counterparts in the countries of origin and destination, complete and accurate…
Weology. What is it? If you guessed that it sounds like “the study of we,” you’re pretty close. The name of the concept stems from a Muhammad Ali poem, which simply goes like this: “Me... we.” Three unique letters rearranged into two powerful little words.
The concept itself, which is also the…
This is the third part in a series about my perspective of what the future has in store for various aspects of manufacturing. I approached each aspect by imagining what is possible using what we know to be technically possible today. In part one I covered cutting tools for machining and in part…
Hard as it may be to believe, a close analysis of our extensive trove of behavioral data on the Quality Digest user group indicates that more than a handful of you don’t regularly watch our regular weekly web TV show, Quality Digest Live, which broadcasts from our studio in Northern California…
We bought a new house in a real nice neighborhood. The house was perfect except for one important feature—it came with a yard! I do not like yard work, and my wife does not like yard work. I travel all the time, and she works long hours.
One Saturday morning, I got a big idea. “Why don’t we just…
When the subject of inclusion comes up in management circles, I commonly hear platitudes like, “Everyone’s ideas are great.” Experience shows that such statements are patently false. Screen doors on a submarine—no redeeming qualities there; they just wouldn’t work out well. The problem with saying…
(Bruker: San Jose, CA) -- Bruker’s Nano Surfaces Division has released a nanoscale scratch option for its NanoForce Nanomechanical Testing System. The new option brings the low-noise floor, precision, and stability of the NanoForce to controlled lateral displacement between tip and sample during…
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