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(Mastercam: Tolland, CT) -- Mastercam X4 Lathe has been released with a new suite of CAD/CAM tools focused on delivering speed and efficiency for your machining jobs. From roughing and finishing to easy grooving and threading, Mastercam Lathe has been designed to reduce programmer interaction and…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- If you’re watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution imaging. But new research1 makes it possible to scrutinize…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Each year the Baldrige Program recruits experts from business, education organizations, health care providers, nonprofit organizations, and other groups to serve on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Examiners evaluate applications…
(Camstar Systems Inc.: Charlotte, NC) -- Camstar will show a product demonstration of its nonconformance management solution in a live one-hour web cast on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. EST.
The session will illustrate specific examples of how the solution can help manufacturers:
• Streamline…
(Dickson: Addison, IL) -- Quality managers and others responsible for maintaining the integrity of temperature and/or humidity chart recorders or data loggers, can now download a comprehensive guide to all aspects of instrument calibration at www.dicksondata.com/calibration/calibration_order.php…
(Productivity Press: New York) -- Critical Success Factors Simplified: Implementing the Powerful Drivers of Dramatic Business Improvement, by Marvin T. Howell (Productivity Press, 2009) simplifies the identification, measurement, and use of critical success factors (CSFs) to successfully implement…
(HEIDENHAIN: Schaumburg, IL) -- The latest HEIDENHAIN ND 1400 Quadra-Chek digital readout (DRO) is designed specifically for manual coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), and can capture two- and three-dimensional features with its measuring computer functionality. This intuitive DRO with its color…
(FDAnews: Falls Church, VA) -- Human error causes 80 percent of drug manufacturing failures, studies indicate. Discover secrets of reducing human error, improving your products, and fending off the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by attending the FDAnews webinar, “Reducing Human Error on…
Story update 11/23/2009: Information added on regions covered by this partnership.
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the world’s largest supplier of metrology equipment and software, and Morris Group Inc. of Windsor,…
(University Alliance: Tampa, FL) -- This year’s University Alliance catalog, titled Online Executive Education, features exclusive savings on more than 50 in-demand online certificate programs from nationally recognized universities including Villanova, Notre Dame, Tulane, and the University of…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the world’s largest supplier of metrology equipment and software, and Hartwig Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, the largest distributor of computer numeric control (CNC) machine tools and metal cutting…
(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation announces the availability of its FactoryTalk Historian Machine Edition (ME) software. This machine-level data historian is designed to help manufacturers mitigate the risk of machine downtime and reach continuous process improvement…
Maximum precision is required for the manufacture of medical parts—dental implants, spinal implants, and surgical instruments. Diener AG Precision Machining uses solutions from Carl Zeiss to fulfill and verify these extreme demands on quality.
Customers rely on the on-time delivery of…
(MFG.com: Atlanta) -- MFG.com, the largest global sourcing marketplace for manufacturers, today announced significant advancements to its online platform that are designed to create additional competitive advantages for manufacturers and suppliers of custom parts, standard components, assemblies,…
(NAHQ: Glenview, IL) -- Over the past three years, Ireland’s public health care system, the Health Service Executive (HSE), has been making health care quality and patient safety issues a critical part of its mission. In 2007, the HSE issued a Quality and Risk Management Standard, setting the…
(NAHQ: Glenview, IL) -- As health reform measures make their way through Congress, with the House of Representatives narrowly passing a heath reform bill earlier this month, the issues of universal coverage, cost, and private vs. public delivery have been at the forefront of the discussion. The…
(Performance Review Institute: Warrendale, PA) -- The penalties for failure to comply with ITAR/EAR regulations are severe and understanding the regulations can be costly. PRI, in partnership with Export Solutions, has simplified export control with proposed solutions at breakeven costs.
In…
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced that its webstore.ansi.org, a web site for the purchase and download of U.S. and other national, regional, or international standards, now offers the complete collection of standards from the British Standards…
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has announced that its webstore.ansi.org, a web site for the purchase and download of U.S. and other national, regional, or international standards, now offers the complete collection of standards from the British Standards…
(APQC: Houston) -- Share your knowledge management experiences at APQC’s 15th Knowledge Management Conference, April 29–30, 2010, at the Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa in Houston, Texas. To be considered, submit your abstract by Nov. 20, using one of the methods below:
• Online form
• E-…
(GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies: Groby, England) -- For the first time in the world, computed radiography for weld inspection has been qualified and validated for inspection of steel pipes that are up to 3.5 inches (89 mm) in diameter. Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras has…
(WCBF: Chicago) -- WCBF will be approving a limited number of storyboard/poster presentations for display at the WCBF 9th Annual Lean, Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit, taking place at the New Orleans Marriott, May 11–14, 2010.
Due date: Feb. 26, 2010 for submitting…
(Cerritos College: Anaheim, CA) -- Cerritos College Economic Development in partnership with California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC) attended the WESTEC trade show, the largest cutting-edge machine tool and manufacturing event on the West Coast, earlier this year. The college's…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Brown & Sharpe, a brand of Hexagon Metrology Inc., announced that it will debut the ONE Shop Floor CMM outfitted with the ScanShark 4Vix laser line scanning probe in Booth 16021 at the FABTECH 2009 Exhibition at McCormick Place in Chicago, from…
(MESA International: Chandler, AZ) -- MESA International presents a free webinar “Improving Performance in Difficult Times: MESA Study Shows How.” The web cast airs Wednesday, Dec. 9, at 10 p.m. in New York, and Thursday, Dec. 10, at 11 a.m. in Shanghai.
The current challenging economic…
