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(DALSA Corp.: Ontario, Canada) -- Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision technology, will launch its new BOA IDR product at booth 1019 at the Automate 2011 show on March 21–24, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Teledyne DALSA’s BOA IDR is ideal for part…
(WCBF: Chicago) -- The 10th annual Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit will take place at the New Orleans Marriott, in New Orleans, May 10–13. The health care sector is a key area where lean Six Sigma processes are making a tremendous impact. Health care organizations are…
(Renishaw plc: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Renishaw’s new Equator system, a software-driven comparative gauge, is starting to soften up the cost for multiple hard gauges at aero-engine component maker Meyer Tool Inc. of Cincinnati. In its prelaunch application, one Renishaw Equator gauge has eliminated…
Forty or 50 years ago, when you sat down in front of, or picked up, a dimensional measurement tool, you immediately recognized that a certain amount of knowledge and skill was required to use it. The measurement operation was almost always completely manual, and even reading and interpreting the…
(Renishaw plc: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Renishaw’s new Equator system, a software-driven comparative gauge, is starting to soften up the cost for multiple hard gauges at aero-engine component maker Meyer Tool Inc. of Cincinnati. In its prelaunch application, one Renishaw Equator gauge has eliminated…
Forty or 50 years ago, when you sat down in front of, or picked up, a dimensional measurement tool, you immediately recognized that a certain amount of knowledge and skill was required to use it. The measurement operation was almost always completely manual, and even reading and interpreting the…
Many writers, including me, have claimed that a lot of our business headaches and hurdles can be solved by simply unifying people within the organization and generating contribution. The catch is that this may be the single most difficult obstacle for business leaders and managers to overcome. In…
(Verisurf Software: Anaheim, CA) -- Join Verisurf for a free webinar, “3-D Scanning with Verisurf” on Tuesday, April 26, from 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PDT.
Webinar agenda:• 3-D scanning and 3-D digitizing technology overview• 3-D scanning for inspection and quality assurance• Filtering during and after…
(OPTEK: Blairstown, NJ) -- Operations Technology Inc. (OPTEK), a manufacturer of precision metrology systems since 1978, has introduced a line of fast, highly accurate three-axis staging and transport systems with superior design features, suitable for a wide range of OEM applications.
Designed…
(Kistler: Farmington Hills, MI) -- Kistler, a global supplier of precision sensors, systems, and instrumentation for measuring pressure, force, torque, and acceleration, has announced the North American market introduction of Types 4260A and 4262A piezoresistive pressure transducer families. Each…
(AIT: Melbourne, FL) -- Advanced Inspection Technologies (AIT) introduces a new portable pipe inspection camera. The Sidewinder push camera is an inspection camera designed for power generation, petrochemical, industrial, welding, cleaning validation, and other applications. The handheld camera…
(Capture 3D: Costa Mesa, CA) -- Capture 3D announces GOM Inspect, GOM’s latest free software release.
GOM Inspect allows users to import scan data from various types of measuring systems with a wide array of advanced point-cloud and inspection functionalities.
Mesh-processing: polygonize…
The fact that companies are unable to reap the full benefits of innovation has little to do with specific process improvement programs such as lean or Six Sigma. Instead, the problem lies with how a new process improvement initiative interacts with the physical, economic, social, and…
Imagine you are sitting in your car, wondering, “What shall I do for dinner? Shall I pick up Chinese food to go, meet my friend Sally, or go home and cook dinner myself while watching American Idol?” All of a sudden you’re sitting there, frozen in time, unable to make a decision about what to…
This is one of those stories that defies logic and common sense. It is a story that stretches the lines of poor customer service and transcends into the annals of, “How to Disenfranchise Customers Over a Piece of Cheese.” Additionally, it is one of those episodes where you look around for a…
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, has launched the laboratory information management system (LIMS) SampleManager LIMS 10.0, a solution that delivers significant new time- and cost-savings for scientists and lab managers…
(ANSI: Washington) -- The Internet as we know it is about to max out. Within the next 12 to 18 months, every one of the 4.3 billion internet protocol (IP) addresses will have been exhausted.
When the Internet was created more than 30 years ago, 4.3 billion unique addresses seemed…
A key technical challenge of the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) LISA mission has been solved: how to maintain precise pointing of a laser beam across 5 million km of space (figure 1).
The next-decade Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (…
The real battle for quality doesn’t lie in processes; it lies in thinking. The recent rift in the state of Wisconsin and other places caused in part by increasing government costs leads one to ask: “Who is responsible? Is it management or labor?”
Gov. Scott Walker’s actions in Wisconsin…
(MoreSteam.com LLC: Lewis Center, OH) -- MoreSteam.com, a global provider of online lean Six Sigma (LSS) training and blended learning support technologies, announces its 2011 Master Black Belt (MBB) spring webcast series, which will be offered in April and May 2011. In this series of free, one-…
(Larson Electronics LLC: Kemp, TX) -- Magnalight.com has added the EPL-16C-1MLED-100 cart-mounted, explosion-proof LED tank light to its explosion-proof lighting inventory. This tank light is approved for use in enclosed spaces and produces 10,000 lumens of light in a wide flood pattern.…
(Automated Imaging Association: Ann Arbor, MI) -- New certification programs for robotics and machine vision system integrators will be explained at the Automate 2011 show scheduled for March 21–24, at McCormick Place in Chicago.
The robotics integrator program will be formally announced during…
(NVision Inc: Coppell, TX) -- NVision’s handheld laser scanner is being used by Lockheed Martin engineers at its Missiles and Fire Control division to ensure that the fit of accessories to aircraft exteriors and interiors is positioned perfectly the first time.
The NVision handheld scanner is a…
(BSI: London) -- In recent years there has been a substantial increase in the number of organizations offering services to inventors and other originators and developers of ideas. These include commercial companies, universities that specialize in invention and product design, and inventors’…
(Extensible CAD Technologies: Raleigh, NC) -- In response to Rand Worldwide’s recent announcement that it will no longer sell or support its functional tolerance and annotation (FT&A) and first-article inspection (FAI) tools, Extensible CAD Technologies is offering support for CATIA v. 5…
