Representatives from 14 countries, along with Alan Bryden, ISO’s secretary-general, met in Kazakhstan last month for the 25th session of the Interstate Council of the Euro-Asian Standardization Cooperation.

Caterpillar Inc. and StatSoft Inc. are collaborating to develop and market software solutions for the modeling, optimization and simulation of complex manufacturing processes.

Pilgrim Software, a provider of enterprise quality and compliance management solutions, announced recently that Genzyme Corp. has successfully implemented Pilgrim’s SmartCAPA solution at its Framingham, Massachusetts facility.

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology and the Italian company Coord3 recently reached an agreement to develop and distribute bridge-type coordinate measuring machines.

The Quality Group recently entered into an agreement with the authors of the best-selling Memory Jogger series and Sailing Through Six Sigma

Citing frequent customer frustration at the amount of work required to start a Six Sigma or DMAIC project using MINITAB software, Rath & Strong released a new guide showing industry workers the easiest way to do just that.

A new reference guide promises to make implementing complicated business improvement projects significantly easier for DMAIC and Six Sigma team leaders.

Six Sigma Qualtec has released the latest version of its SixNet Intelligence System, SixNet v. 2.7.

The metrology division of Leica Geosystems has successfully completed a landmark data collection project with Caterpillar Inc.

IBS America Inc. will leverage technology from Trilog Group Inc. to expand its QSi Web system from Lotus Notes and Domino to open platforms, the company announced this week.