(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today’s global manufacturing environment. They are too complex and too focused on past performance.

(VIEW Micro-Metrology: Phoenix) -- VIEW Micro-Metrology, a division of Quality Vision International (QVI), announces a new benchtop measurement system, the Benchmark 250-S.

(KOTEM: Rochester, NY) -- KOTEM, a developer of data-fitting and GD&T evaluation software for industrial measurement, has released SmartProfile 2.0, the all-new version of its popular geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) evaluation software.

(RAM: Rochester, NY) -- RAM Optical Instrumentation, a designer and manufacturer of video inspection solutions and a division of Quality Vision International Inc. (QVI), has developed a full-function benchtop digital measuring machine, the QVI SNAP.

(Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare: Oakbrook Terrace, IL) -- An estimated 80 percent of serious medical errors involve miscommunication between caregivers when patients are transferred or handed off.

(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- AIAG, a nonprofit, member-supported organization focused on collaboration with a wide range of manufacturing companies and service providers, has joined the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as an Organizational Stakeholder, formalizing its commitment to promoting transp

(Jossey-Bass: Hoboken, NJ) -- In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt their strategies and innovate to remain at the top. But many successful firms fail to do so.

(LEI: Cambridge, MA) -- The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute is offering a comprehensive series of lean management workshops for Sept. 18–20, 2012, in Indianapolis.

This is the time of year for graduations, weddings, and outdoor musical concerts. And of course, tomorrow many of us will be at a local park, picnic dinners spread out on a blanket beneath the stars waiting for the July 4th fireworks.

It’s been a grueling five years with the bailouts, rampant unemployment, declining home values, and rising prices, which have manifested as insecurity, fear, and stress, and for those who are employed—overwork.