Philip Crosby, the developer of the zero defects concept, died of respiratory failure on August 18. He was 75.

Coreco Inc. (St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada) has been named one of Canada's top 100 technology companies by Canadian Business Magazine.

The Energy and Environment Division of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) is in the process of revising the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ASQ E4-1994 standard.

An inspection standard that allows inspection equipment to communicate directly with a broad range of manufacturing software systems has been adopted by the American National Standards Institute.

U.S. Engineering Laboratories Inc. (USEL), a subsidiary of U.S. Laboratories Inc. (San Diego,) has been awarded a contract for the Philadelphia Eagles Football Club's new stadium.

Wireless communications for business applications are going to "explode," according to AMR Research.

Karen E. Whitmore has been named quality program manager for the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG).

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 North American machine vision market grew 26% in 2000, according to a study released by the Automated Imagining Association (AIA).

Entela Inc. Engineering and Testing Laboratories (Grand Rapids, MI) has achieved ISO/IEC Guide 17025 accreditation.