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ASSP takes position opposing exploitative child labor

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Health, Learning, Environment, United, ASSP, ESG, United Nations, Child, Society, International Labour Organization, Workforce, CIH, Injury, Language, CSP, ANSI, Fatality, Toy

The statement from the board of directors declares that ASSP opposes all forms of exploitative child labor and calls on governmental and nongovernmental entities to combat such practices in the U.S. and worldwide.

Key Points: 
  • The statement from the board of directors declares that ASSP opposes all forms of exploitative child labor and calls on governmental and nongovernmental entities to combat such practices in the U.S. and worldwide.
  • “There has been a focus to loosen U.S. child labor laws to help industry combat labor shortages,” Thornton said.
  • With its child labor position set, ASSP will now pursue next steps that include:
    Publishing articles and hosting webinars to educate the occupational safety and health community.
  • Working with other occupational safety and health organizations to help prohibit exploitative child labor.

SKYX Reports Record Sales of $58.8 Million for 2023 and Fourth Quarter Record Sales of $22.2 Million as it Continues to Enhance its Market Penetration for Both Retail and Pro Segments

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Monday, April 1, 2024
ALA, General Electric, Annual report, Tax, NAHB, BelAmi, Acceleration, Partnership, ANSI, International, Sale, Acquisition, National Electrical Code, Consumer Electronics Show, NEC, Investment, Safety, Depreciation, CES, IBS, Lighting, Data aggregation, Marketing, Video game

Generated a record $58.8 million in revenue in 2023, including E-commerce sales, smart home products and advanced plug & play products, as compared to $32,022 in 2022.

Key Points: 
  • Generated a record $58.8 million in revenue in 2023, including E-commerce sales, smart home products and advanced plug & play products, as compared to $32,022 in 2022.
  • Generated a record $22.2 million in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023.
  • SKYX has started sales to the builder and pro segments and opened over 100 builder and pro accounts during the International Builders’ Show (IBS - NAHB) in Las Vegas.
  • Additionally, our e-commerce website platform continues to enhance the acceleration of marketing, distribution channels, collaborations, and sales to both professional and retail segments.

CommScope Unveils GigaREACH XL Solution Designed to Power and Connect Emerging Edge Devices

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Data Management, Technology, Telecommunications, Mobile, Wireless, Networks, Internet, Hardware, Failure, Power over Ethernet, Name, ANSI, CommScope, Category 6 cable, ISO, COMM

CommScope addresses this challenge with its new GigaREACH XL solution.

Key Points: 
  • CommScope addresses this challenge with its new GigaREACH XL solution.
  • “Today, CommScope eliminates the 100-meter distance limit to cost-effectively connect a range of edge devices.”
    With the GigaREACH XL solution, customers can easily connect and power devices beyond the 100-meter limit with one cable and with little or no disruption to existing services.
  • As part of the SYSTIMAX portfolio, the GigaREACH XL solution is also backed by CommScope’s industry-leading SYSTIMAX Assurance ™ program.
  • CommScope and the CommScope logo are registered trademarks of CommScope and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries.

US Pole Names Mercier Southeast Regional Sales Vice President

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Other Manufacturing, Construction & Property, Urban Planning, Utilities, Manufacturing, Building Systems, Energy, Architecture, Other Construction & Property, Marketing, Lighting, ANSI, Interior design

The US Pole Company, home of Sun Valley Lighting and US Architectural Lighting brands and a leading manufacturer of architectural, performance, outdoor luminaires and decorative poles, announced the addition of Greg Mercier as Vice President of its Southeast Regional Sales Team.

Key Points: 
  • The US Pole Company, home of Sun Valley Lighting and US Architectural Lighting brands and a leading manufacturer of architectural, performance, outdoor luminaires and decorative poles, announced the addition of Greg Mercier as Vice President of its Southeast Regional Sales Team.
  • In this position, Mercier will be responsible for growing the company’s newly created southeast sales region and strengthening its pole expertise.
  • “We are excited to bring someone with Greg’s extensive experience onboard,” said George Preston, CEO of US Pole.
  • He formerly served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Hapco Pole Products and most recently was the Regional Sales Manager for Utility Metals.

Virtuosi® Becomes an IACET Accredited Provider

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Microbiology, Organization, Accreditation, VR, Education, Aseptic processing, Senior, Quality, Continuing education, Cell, ANSI, Virtual reality, Nursing

ATLANTA, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --The International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded Virtuosi the prestigious Accredited Provider accreditation. IACET Accredited Providers are the only organizations approved to offer IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Key Points: 
  • ATLANTA, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --The International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded Virtuosi the prestigious Accredited Provider accreditation.
  • IACET Accredited Providers are the only organizations approved to offer IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
  • "We are pleased to recognize and celebrate the achievement of Virtuosi powered by Quality Executive Partners as an Accredited Provider," stated Randy Bowman, President & CEO of IACET.
  • Virtuosi is now linked to the IACET website and is recognized as offering the highest quality continuing education and training programs.

CloroxPro™ offers Centennial College students first-of-its-kind HealthyClean™ Trained Specialist Course

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
College, Control, Infection, Comprehension, Centennial College, Innovation, Healthcare Environmental Services, American National Standards Institute, Centennial, Patient, Knowledge, Accreditation, Malaysian Qualifications Agency, Student, Economic development, ANSI, Nursing

The College will become the first school globally to offer students enhanced lessons in cleaning and infection prevention for health-care environments.

Key Points: 
  • The College will become the first school globally to offer students enhanced lessons in cleaning and infection prevention for health-care environments.
  • HealthyClean brings interactive and specialized training to the College's Healthcare Environmental Services Management program, which uniquely prepares students for supervisory roles in health-care settings.
  • Students who successfully complete the HealthyClean Trained Specialist Course will add a Certificate of Mastery to their portfolio as well as a digital badge they can add to their online signature, and social profiles, like LinkedIn.
  • As experts in the cleaning and disinfecting space, CloroxPro aims to continue expansion of the HealthyClean Trained Specialist Course in Canada.

Vuzix Commences Online Sales of Its MicroLED Binocular Waveguide Smart Safety Glasses

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Monday, April 8, 2024
Augmented reality, Qualcomm, Smartglasses, Organization, Veteran, MicroLED, ANSI, Human, Mobile phone

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), ("Vuzix" or, the "Company"), a leading supplier of smart glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced that its award-winning Vuzix Shield™ smart safety glasses are now available to the general public via www.Vuzix.com. Vuzix Shield initially launched against a limited fulfillment strategy, focused on developers and researchers.

Key Points: 
  • ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), ("Vuzix" or, the "Company"), a leading supplier of smart glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, today announced that its award-winning Vuzix Shield™ smart safety glasses are now available to the general public via www.Vuzix.com .
  • Vuzix Shield initially launched against a limited fulfillment strategy, focused on developers and researchers.
  • Vuzix Shield represents the company's most revolutionary pair of prescription-ready AR smart safety glasses, boasting enhanced 3D optics made possible by its stereoscopic microLED (µLED) waveguide-based displays.
  • Organizations interested in Vuzix Shield can order directly at https://www.vuzix.com/products/vuzix-shield-smart-glasses , or connect with the Vuzix sales team to discuss how binocular AR smart glasses can support their frontline workers.

Kinetica Delivers Real-Time Vector Similarity Search

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Cloud, Synthetic media, ANN, OLAP, Gen, Algorithm, GPU, SQL, General partnership, RAG, SAN, Motion, Anomaly, LLM, Architecture, RAFT, Acceleration, Index, Language, NVIDIA, ANSI, Generative, Weather, Cryptocurrency

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kinetica, the real-time GPU-accelerated database for analytics and generative AI, today unveiled at NVIDIA GTC the industry’s only real-time vector similarity search engine that can ingest vector embeddings 5X faster than the previous market leader, based on the popular VectorDBBench benchmark. Under the hood Kinetica uses NVIDIA RAPIDS RAFT to harness the power of the GPU for vector similarity search. With Kinetica’s best-in-class combined data and query latency for vector embedding pipelines, large language models (LLM) can immediately augment their results with new information via embeddings as soon as they are generated, without delays at scale.

Key Points: 
  • Under the hood Kinetica uses NVIDIA RAPIDS RAFT to harness the power of the GPU for vector similarity search.
  • High performance vector similarity search at speed and scale - Kinetica vectorization enables vector similarity search (exact nearest neighbor) at speed and scale even without an index.
  • Hybrid vector search combines similarity search with time-series, spatial, graph & OLAP through SQL - Build more powerful Generative AI applications by combining vector similarity search with filters, joins, aggregations, etc.
  • “By taking advantage of NVIDIA RAPIDS vector search, Kinetica can offer higher throughput, lower latency and faster index builds for Gen AI applications.”
    Kinetica’s vector similarity search is now available in Kinetica 7.2 for users of Kinetica Cloud Dedicated, Developer Edition, and Kinetica Enterprise.

NETA Launches New Qualified Electrical Equipment Maintenance Contractor and Worker Program

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Learning, Knowledge, NETA, Safety, Standard, NFPA, ANSI

The new program is intended to meet the anticipated demand for vetted, qualified electrical equipment maintenance contractors through a process of company review and the testing of contractor-employed electrical maintenance equipment workers.

Key Points: 
  • The new program is intended to meet the anticipated demand for vetted, qualified electrical equipment maintenance contractors through a process of company review and the testing of contractor-employed electrical maintenance equipment workers.
  • As facility owners and operators consider how to align their electrical maintenance programs with the NFPA 70B maintenance requirements, the demand for qualified electrical contractors with qualified electrical maintenance workers will accelerate.
  • Through the establishment of its new Qualified Electrical Equipment Maintenance Contractor and Worker Program, NETA has taken a leadership position in support of the NFPA 70B maintenance requirements.
  • To meet the requirements of this new qualification program administered through NETA, Qualified Electrical Equipment Maintenance Contractors (QEMC) will have completed a standardized vetting process.

Smith Earns Six Certifications at Its Singapore Operational Hub

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Facility, Health, Certification, ESD, Environment, Risk, Smith, FSR, Senior, Safety, ISO, ANSI, Medical device

HOUSTON, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Smith, a leading global distributor of electronic components and semiconductors, today announces its certification to six standards at the company's distribution center in Singapore, which include:

Key Points: 
  • These certifications reinforce Smith's global commitment to upholding industry best practices for quality , safety, security, and sustainability .
  • "These certifications affirm our commitment to these standards and underscore the consistency of our products and services across our global locations ."
  • Smith has maintained its long-established ISO 9001 certification at its Houston headquarters since 2002 and at its hubs in Hong Kong and Amsterdam since 2010.
  • "Maintaining these certifications is a team effort, and through the consistent diligence of our operational workforce, we will continue to do our part to safeguard the semiconductor supply chain."