ShopMatch has launched a Web marketplace for manufacturing services.

People news from the quality industry.

External, non-production costs add approximately 22% to unit labor costs of U.S. manufacturers.

Cognex Corp. has announced a series of free machine vision seminars.

Business news from the quality industry.

The American Society for Quality's Annual Quality Congress will feature a "quality competition."

Congressional appropriators gutted a federal program that serves America's small manufacturers, despite the support of more than 300 members of Congress.

People news from the quality industry.

The U.S. nondestructive testing equipment market currently stands at $1.38 billion.

President George Bush and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans announced seven organizations as recipients of the 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.