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LASER SCANNERS REPLACE TACTILE PROBING

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Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Istanbul, TOFAS (Türk Otomobil Fabrikası A.S.) manufactures cars, taxis, and vans in Turkey for international sale. Products are offered under several brands, including Fiat (which jointly owns the company), Peugeot, Citroen, and Opel. The TOFAS-built Fiat Linea is Turkey's best-selling passenger car, while its Fiat Doblò (also produced as the Opel Combo) claims first place in the light commercial vehicle category.

BIODIVERSITY

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It's taken a while to reach Post 100, but here we are finally. Last week I spent some time revisiting two of my favourite environmental temples in London. Yes, I'm talking about the ZSL and the Natural History Museum. As always, that brought to my mind the massive importance of biodiversity preservation.  Twenty years ago, the Earth Summit in Rio resulted in a Convention on Biological Diversity, now signed by 193 nations, to prevent species loss. But can we tell how many species are becoming extinct?

BRINGING A SPACECRAFT BACK FROM THE DEAD

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More than 25 years ago, an abandoned NASA spacecraft fulfilled its mission, fell silent, and has since been hurtling around the sun, somewhere between the orbits of Earth and Mars. Now, a University of Arizona engineering student is trying to wake it up. Jacob Gold, an undergraduate student majoring in aerospace engineering, is on a mission against time. If he can’t make contact with the SUV-sized space probe when it swoops by the moon this summer, it will disappear into the depths of space, not to return until Gold is 50 years old.

QMS ESSENTIALS (Part III)

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This is the third installment of a six-part series on common business challenges and the quality management system (QMS) tools that can help alleviate those challenges. We've discussed corrective action in Part 1 and document control in Part 2 , and the ways in which organizations are finding value through these tools. In this article, we're going to discuss risk management and how it can help you proactively identify and mitigate risk.