Applied Dynamics International, Inc. (ADI) today announced the appointment of Melissa Wright (41) as President, replacing John McIntosh who retired April 30th. Wright, who also retains her current position as chief operating officer, began her career with ADI in 1986 as a senior application engineer. She was promoted to engineering manager in 1993, vice president […]

The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) announced on April 19 a proof-of-concept demonstration at the Quality Expo Conference in Rosemont, Ill. that they will release in June a common global language specification for metrology system interfaces, called dimensional markup language (DML). AIAG developed DML in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). […]

From January 1999 through June 2004, I was the editor of a publication that was first called Automotive Test Report and later Automotive&Aerospace Test Report. I left that publication, not because I got tired of covering automotive test, but because I felt limited in what I could cover. The number of pages of editorial in […]