• Direct Digital Controls (Minneapolis) changed its name to HumeraTech and relocated to Rogers, Minn.
• A.O. Smith Corp.’s (Milwaukee) Carol Peters (top right), commercial water heater plant production manager in McBee, S.C., was named a winner of the Women in Manufacturing STEP award by The Manufacturing Institute (Washington), Deloitte (New York), University of Phoenix (Tempe, Ariz.), and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Dearborn, Mich.).