STATE COLLEGE, PA-The Wall Street Journal named Minitab, provider of software and services for quality improvement and statistics education, as one of 35 finalists in its first annual ranking of top small workplaces in North America.
In 1969, the Materials Information Society (ASM) established the Fellow of the Society honor to provide recognition to members for distinguished contributions to materials science and engineering and develop a broadly based forum of technical and professional leaders to serve as advisors to the society.
MCLEAN, VA-July U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $271.37 million, according to AMT, the Association for Manufacturing Technology, and AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Senate confirmed William G. “Woody” Sutton as assistant secretary of commerce for manufacturing and services, a position sometimes referred to as the manufacturing “czar.”
LEXINGTON, MA-IBS, provider of enterprise quality and compliance solutions, announces that manufacturers using its enterprise quality management (EQM) solutions have earned a Best in Class categorization in a ranking by the Aberdeen Group (Boston, MA), provider of research focused on the global technology-driven value chain.
OSLO, NORWAY-Trikon Design Services, a design, engineering and information technology company, has partnered with Metronor to offer the AIMS software suite of tools.
NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI-Hexagon AB has entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of CogniTens Ltd., provider of shop floor noncontact dimensional measurement solutions.
HANOVER, GERMANY-Parlec Inc., headquartered in Fairport, NY, and Mahr GmbH, headquartered in Göttingen, Germany, announce a bilateral partnership agreement to market and sell each other’s measurement tool and inspection products.
The Quality Plant of the Year will be announced at the Quality Measurement Conference, April 28 to May 1, 2008, in Clearwater, FL. In addition, each winning plant will be profiled in the April 2008 issue of Quality Magazine. The winning plants must be available for interviews and photographs in January 2008.