U.S. Engineering Laboratories Inc. (USEL), a subsidiary of U.S. Laboratories Inc. (San Diego,) has been awarded a contract for the Philadelphia Eagles Football Club's new stadium.

Wireless communications for business applications are going to "explode," according to AMR Research.

Karen E. Whitmore has been named quality program manager for the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG).

CR Technology (Aliso Viejo, CA) has been awarded Frost and Sullivan's 2000 Market Engineering Award for Product Line Strategy in the surface mount technology inspection equipment category.

The North American machine vision market grew 26% in 2000, according to a study released by the Automated Imagining Association (AIA).

Entela Inc. Engineering and Testing Laboratories (Grand Rapids, MI) has achieved ISO/IEC Guide 17025 accreditation.

The robotics industry is feeling the impact of a capital equipment slowdown as new orders for North American robotics companies fell 36% in the first quarter of 2001 compared to the same period last year.

Motion Industries Inc. (Washington, D.C.) is a recipient of the General Motors Corp. 2000 Supplier of the Year award for the fifth consecutive year.

Mark Ellis has been hired as regional manager for Virtek Vision's Industrial Imaging Division (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada).

The book, "Lean Manufacturing for the Small Shop," is available from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.