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(Sunnen: St. Louis, MO) -- Sonny Leonard and the team from Sonny’s World Class Racing Engines in Lynchburg, Virginia, have volunteered to build a high-performance engine for the Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Trade Show in December 2018. This will be the…
(Standards Stores: Excelsior, MN) -- Standards Stores has simplified the process of finding industry training (like ISO 9001 lead auditor training) with one site that has 1000’s of classes from all the top industry organizations. Much like Travelocity simplified the process of travel reservations,…
(Standards Stores: Excelsior, MN) -- The Registration Quote service, launched by Standards Stores, is a free service that simplifies the process of receiving management-system registration services quotations from accredited registrars. An organization only has to complete one application, and it…
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs, a leader in measurement and process monitoring technologies, has announced the availability of its Mida Laser 75P Hybrid tool setter, which combines a noncontact laser and touch probe in one system. While the laser enables measurement and checks on high-speed…
The grand prize winner at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition was an MIT spinout that’s developing a system that captures and recycles vaporized water from thermoelectric power plants. The recycled water can be constantly reused in the plant’s cooling system, saving millions of…
(Olympus: Waltham, MA) -- Olympus announces its LEXT OLS5000 3D laser confocal scanning microscope was recognized by the judges of the annual Laser Focus World Innovators Awards program. The judging panel consisted of senior industry experts who honored the microscope with a Silver award.
The LEXT…
(MIT News: Cambridge, MA) -- Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre.
This model, which consists of many layers of information-processing…
(ANSI: New York, NY) -- The International Organization for Standardization/ International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1—“Information technology,” Subcommittee (SC) 31—“Automatic identification and data capture techniques” recently announced the formation of…
(FARO Industries: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO, the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement and imaging solutions for factory metrology, product design, and 3D machine vision applications, announces the release of the FARO CAM2 2018 software platform, specifically designed to enable users to…
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence recently announced the release of BLAZE 600A, a fully automated 3D optical measurement system designed for use with robotic installations on the shop floor.
Based on Hexagon’s proven white-light scanner…
(Capture 3D: Corneilius, NC) -- Capture 3D, the exclusive North American partner of GOM GmbH industrial 3D metrology systems, announces the expansion of its North Carolina office to a new larger facility. The new address is 11034 Bailey Road, Cornelius, NC 28031. The move will allow the business to…
(API: Rockville, MD) -- Automated Precision Inc. (API) announced that it has opened a new services facility in Plano, Texas, to accommodate growing demand for contract services in the area’s manufacturing industries. The new location will allow API to strengthen its ability to provide affordable…
(Creaform: Lévis, PQ) -- Creaform, a worldwide leader in accurate portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, has launched the CUBE-R, a new generation of complete turnkey automated dimensional inspection solution. The new optical 3D measuring machine capitalizes on the MetraSCAN 3D…
(Innovmetric: Quebec, QC) -- InnovMetric Software Inc., the leading provider of universal 3D metrology software solutions, today launched the 2018 release of PolyWorks at the annual PolyWorks Conference USA event. This latest major release of the company’s universal 3D metrology software platform…
Manufacturing Day 2018 to Focus on Biggest Problem Manufacturers Face: A Shortage of Skilled Workers
(Manufacturing Institute: Washington, D.C.) -- The National Association of Manufacturers’ (NAM) Manufacturing Institute has announced that Manufacturing Day (MFG) 2018 will occur on Friday, October 5, with a record-breaking turnout expected. This year, MFG Day will focus on one of the biggest…
(AuditComply: Belfast, Ireland) -- AuditComply has announced the ongoing use of its AuditComply platform by KDD, a Kuwait-based company. Specializing in the production and distribution of 125 dairy products, KDD is committed to quality and excellence in all that it does. KDD’s strong focus on…
(Beamex: Atlanta) -- Beamex has opened attendee registration for its Annual Calibration Exchange (ACE 2018), which will be held Sept. 19–20, 2018, at California Polytechnic University in Pomona, California.
The event will explore the latest insights, trends, and best practices for process plant…
(Starrett: Athol, MA) -- The L.S. Starrett Co. has introduced a series of motorized digital test frames for performing a wide range of basic, high-volume, in-situ manufacturing, force-testing applications including tension, compression, flexural cyclic, shear, and friction. The Starrett FMM digital…
(Productivity Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- Productivity Press presents the latest book from international quality expert, H. James Harrington, titled Innovative Change Management (ICM): Preparing Your Organization for the New Innovative Culture, published in March 2018.
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(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- The Nikon Laser Radar combined with Metrologic Group’s software suite, Silma X4 i-Robot and Metrolog X4 i-Robot, provide a highly flexible and accurate 3D metrology solution, designed for shop-floor CMM quality measurements in short time cycles. This single,…
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- The Nikon Laser Radar combined with Metrologic Group’s software suite, Silma X4 i-Robot and Metrolog X4 i-Robot, provide a highly flexible and accurate 3D metrology solution, designed for shop-floor CMM quality measurements in short time cycles. This single,…
(QualiTest Group: Fairfield, CT) -- QualiTest Group, the world’s largest pure play quality assurance and independent software testing company, today announced the launch of a comprehensive testing solution dedicated to IoT. The offering was developed over the course of testing thousands of IoT…
(PQ Systems: Dayton, OH) -- PQ Systems has positioned itself as a quality improvement champion with a rebranding that reflects its vision to help organizations optimize quality. PQ Systems provides peace of mind through complete services and solutions to simplify customers’ approach to quality.…
(MIT News: Cambridge, MA) -- Today, most web browsers have private-browsing modes, in which they temporarily desist from recording the user’s browsing history.
But data accessed during private browsing sessions can still end up tucked away in a computer’s memory, where a sufficiently motivated…
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs Corp. has announced the availability of its new Brankamp CMS-02 stand-alone system for collision monitoring and crash damage mitigation in machine tools.
The system employs a ceramic strain sensor to detect irregularities in the production process by…
