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Kevin Spencer Smith has been appointed to president of Productivity Inc.'s (Portland, OR) consulting and training group.

A Sept. 27 Commerce Department report indicated that new orders for manufactured durable goods fell by 0.3% in August after declining 1.1% the previous month.

WinWare Inc. (Marietta, GA) has landed a multiplant, enterprise-wide implementation contract with The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

The vice president of quality assurance at Bridgestone/Firestone (Nashville, TN), Robert J. Wyant, retired after 36 years with the company.

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has provided cost-saving and productivity-increasing measures for small businesses that can impact companies' bottom lines.

Douglas R. Starrett, 81, chairman and retired CEO of The L.S. Starrett Co. (Athol, MA) has died.

For the first time since the late 1970s, a member of the Ford family is running the automaker of the same name.

Brown & Sharpe Inc. (North Kingstown, RI) has acquired Meas Inc. (Charlotte, NC), a precision measurement applications engineering firm.

Teaching engineers to design safer and more reliable aircraft, automobiles and other complex engineering systems is the goal of Vanderbilt University's new program.

Consumers are slightly more satisfied with major manufactured goods this year than they were in 2001, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) produced by the University of Michigan Business School's National Quality Research Center.