Faro Technologies Inc. (Lake Mary, FL) has added a customer-exclusive support system to its Web site, www.faro.com, that provides responses to customer inquiries.

Carroll Packaging Inc. (Dearborn, MI) has achieved QS-9000 registration.

Precision Metrology Inc. (Milwaukee, WI), a calibration and repair laboratory, has added the calibration of accelerometers, shock and vibration test instruments and electronic standards to their list of calibration and repair services.

The National Association of Manufacturers' (NAM) Manufacturing Career Alliance has awarded The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) a grant to promote manufacturing careers to young people.

Steve Winnes has been promoted to operations manager of the Danville manufacturing facility of Electronic Development Labs Inc. (Danville, VA).

General Electric (GE, Fairfield, CT) will buy Honeywell (Morristown, NJ) in a deal worth $45 billion.

Sony (Tokyo) has embraced manufacturing outsourcing and has agreed to transfer two of its plants to Solectron (Milpitas, CA).

Quality Expo International (QEI), the world's largest trade show and conference dedicated to quality assurance and product reliability in discrete manufacturing, celebrates its 20th anniversary April 24 to 26 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.

The National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP) for accreditation in materials testing has reapproved Laboratory Testing Inc.

The 29th Annual National Tooling and Machining Association's (NTMA) National Apprentice Competition determined the best of the best in a 2-day competition involving projects in lathe, mill, precision grinding and a compre-hensive exam.