WASHINGTON, D.C.-Along with other long-term solutions to America’s serious shortage of highly skilled employees, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) praised policymakers who support raising the cap from its current 65,000 limit on H-1B visas for highly educated and skilled employees.
MENTOR, OH-The American Meas-uring Tool Manufacturers Association (AMTMA) named its 2008-2009 officers and board of directors at its annual meeting, held March 13 to 14 in Phoenix.
Olympus NDT Inc. has acquired Pulsecho Inc., a distributor of nondestructive testing instruments located in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. Pulsecho Inc. will be integrated into the Olympus sales distribution network as
MINNEAPOLIS, April 17-Laser Design Inc., supplier of 3-D laser scanners, has signed a distribution agreement with Borbolla Metrology in Saltillo, Coahuila State, Mexico. The Borbolla distributorship will allow the company
NATICK, MA, April 15-Cognex Corp., provider of machine vision solutions, has expanded its international manufacturing and distribution operations and moved into a new facility in Cork, Ireland. The increased space
TAMPA, FL, April 14-Pilgrim Software Inc., provider of enterprise compliance and quality management (ECQM) software solutions, has been named the 2008 North American Enterprise Compliance & Quality Management Company of
ANN ARBOR, MI, March 27-Machine Vision Markets–2007 Results and Forecasts to 2012, a new machine vision market study from the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), reports that machine vision and automated
AUBURN HILLS, MI, April 7-Plexus Systems Inc. (Auburn Hills, MI), provider of software for manufacturing enterprises, has signed contracts with Wescast Industries Inc. (Brantford, Ontario), supplier of cast exhaust manifolds
MEYLAN, FRANCE, April 14-Metrologic Group (Meylan, France) has taken a majority stake in Advanced Theodolite Technology Inc. (ATT, Redmond, WA), which specializes in 3-D, large-scale metrology inspection services. This acquisition
DEARBORN, MI, April 15-The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has uploaded more than 60 SME videos to YouTube, generating more than 200,000 hits. “I like to think of YouTube as