Edmund Optics announced the recipient of the 2013 Norman Edmund Inspiration Award of $5,000 in product donation. Craig Mackay, Professor of Image Science in the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in the UK, and his research team are building a new instrument for ground-based optical telescopes that will produce higher resolution images than those captured from space telescopes.

Jeff Hartung joins the Applied Vision Corporation international sales team as executive vice president of sales and marketing.

Two, different Artec scanners are being used by Hyundai Motor Europe to visualize and modify, as necessary, automobile seats for new cars from Hyundai.

Zygo Corporation congratulated the Zygo Automotive Precision Optical Metrology Team on winning the 2013 Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award from the Optical Society of America.

The Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium announces that the QIF v1.0 (Quality Information Framework) draft standard is now available for public review in the ANSI weekly publication Standards Action Vol 44 # 38.

Davis Instruments has released its largest catalog of the year: the V79 Sourcebook. The 1,000-page catalog includes a wide range of temperature instruments, process equipment and control, test and measurement, and pressure and flow equipment.

Praveen Gupta, an ASQ Fellow and member of Quality’s Executive Council, recently joined Prysm Inc. as director of corporate quality. Prysm (www.prysm.com) invented Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) technology that enables scalable and versatile videowalls.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Engineer Adam Steltzner will respectively open and keynote WESTEC, the premier West Coast manufacturing event.

Laser Design Inc. (LDI) announced it has been appointed the master North American distributor for Tomelleri Engineering’s line of Space Arm articulated-arm CMMs. The SPACE Arm line has been marketed successfully in Europe and product distribution is now expanding worldwide.