CR Technology (Aliso Viejo, CA) has been awarded Frost and Sullivan's 2000 Market Engineering Award for Product Line Strategy in the surface mount technology inspection equipment category.
The robotics industry is feeling the impact of a capital equipment slowdown as new orders for North American robotics companies fell 36% in the first quarter of 2001 compared to the same period last year.
General Electric Co. became one of industry's most ardent and best-known practitioners of Six Sigma quality methodologies under former Chairman Jack Welch.