• Comet (Garbsen, Germany) appoints Jochen Dietel as technical services team leader. Dietel has more than 11 years of experience as a service manager in the field of micro- and nanofocus X-ray inspection. He began his career with Feinfocus in 1994 and became involved with the company's service policies-field maintenance, upgrades and training-for the complete line of X-ray inspection systems.
• Parlec Inc. (Fairport, NY) names Doug Woods president of Parlec International. Woods will be responsible for expanding the company's worldwide growth, specifically in the markets outside of North America. He will manage Parlec's current subsidiaries in Bristol, England, and Nanjing, China, as well as identify and develop the company's operations in other high-growth markets. Woods is the current chairman of the board and past chairman of the custom automated systems group of the Association for Manufacturing Technology. He also is active in the National Tooling & Machining Association, where he has chaired the global marketing committee, and is past president of the Rochester Chapter of the NTMA.