Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest

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Dirk Dusharme is Quality Digest’s editor in chief.

Wed, 12/10/2025 - 12:03
Hexagon Metrology Introduces Lightest, Smallest, Most Accurate Laser Tracker The first battery powered, ultra-long range absolute tracker with IP54 certification

Tue, 04/27/2010 - 20:38
Hexagon Metrology Inc. announced its latest product today at Quality Expo South in Charlotte, North Carolina—the Leica Absolute Tracker AT401, the industry’s first wireless, battery powered laser tracker. See It Live…
Wilcox Associates Introduces PC-DMIS Planner Innovative software links CAD data with inspection on measuring machines.
Wed, 04/21/2010 - 14:33
Wilcox Associates Inc., a Hexagon Metrology company, recently announced the release of PC-DMIS Planner software. The toolset improves the flow of information between the design department, which designs parts in the virtual CAD world, and the…
Nikon Forms Nikon Metrology Inc. for Industrial Metrology Customers Company combines Nikon industrial instruments business with former Metris business to create Nikon Metrology Inc.
Fri, 04/02/2010 - 13:31
On April 1 Nikon announced that it had formed Nikon Metrology Inc., a new company that combines Nikon Instruments Inc. (Nikon’s microscopy and digital imaging arm business) with the former Metris business, acquired by Nikon Corp. in 2009. In…
Hexagon Closes Fond du Lac Plant Operations moved to newer, more efficient facility in Rhode Island.
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 09:29
Citing excess capacity and efficiency as the key reasons, Hexagon Metrology is closing its plant in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. During the past year, the plant, which assembled Sheffield brand products, has been shifting operations to Hexagon’s new…
Hexagon Acquires Vision Manufacturer Mycrona GmbH Hexagon expands its offering in the vision metrology business
Wed, 01/06/2010 - 14:38
(Hexagon Metrology: London) -- Following on its recent acquisition of Mahr Multisensor and further expanding its already large footprint in the international metrology market, Hexagon has recently acquired all outstanding assets and intellectual…
Zhu Zhu Pets and Hazardous Substance Process Management Toy flap points out the need for IECQ HSPM QC 080000 standard.
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 07:30
On Dec. 4, a California-based consumer watchdog group announced that testing performed by them on the enormously popular Zhu Zhu Pets showed that levels of the heavy metal antimony were in excess of federal limits. In an announcement picked up by…
Car Brands Lose 12 Percent of Buyers to Competitors, Customer Treatment to Blame Dealers, salespeople, take note.
Wed, 12/09/2009 - 16:30
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has bought a car from a dealership, but according to the recently released J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) Study, 21 percent of new-car buyers will walk out of dealership…
DNV and Intertek Discuss Merger In the United States, DNV gives up management system certification in place of co-branding with Intertek
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 06:00
In late November management system registrars DNV and Intertek announced that they were in discussions regarding a potential to unite their business assurance activities. According to sources at DNV, Intertek will be purchasing DNV’s business unit…
How NOT to Use Survey Data Surveys as punishment
Thu, 11/05/2009 - 04:30
I recently got a phone call from one of our service providers asking me to participate in a short survey to assess their service quality. This provider handles part of our business infrastructure and so I was more than happy to answer some…
Feds Arrest Three Suspects on Counterfeit Components Charges Allegedly sold counterfeit ICs to U.S. Navy. A growing problem, say sources.
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 05:00
On October 8, the federal government arrested three people in Southern California on suspicion of selling counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs) used in the manufacture of electronic devices to the U.S. Navy. The government executed search warrants…