Jeff Christensen has been named the president and CEO of the GE Fanuc Motion Business (Charlottesville, VA).

Arthur D. "Don" Wainwright was elected chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).

Kevin Spencer Smith has been appointed to president of Productivity Inc.'s (Portland, OR) consulting and training group.

A Sept. 27 Commerce Department report indicated that new orders for manufactured durable goods fell by 0.3% in August after declining 1.1% the previous month.

WinWare Inc. (Marietta, GA) has landed a multiplant, enterprise-wide implementation contract with The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

The vice president of quality assurance at Bridgestone/Firestone (Nashville, TN), Robert J. Wyant, retired after 36 years with the company.

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has provided cost-saving and productivity-increasing measures for small businesses that can impact companies' bottom lines.

Douglas R. Starrett, 81, chairman and retired CEO of The L.S. Starrett Co. (Athol, MA) has died.

For the first time since the late 1970s, a member of the Ford family is running the automaker of the same name.

Brown & Sharpe Inc. (North Kingstown, RI) has acquired Meas Inc. (Charlotte, NC), a precision measurement applications engineering firm.