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(Michigan Metrology: Livonia, MI) -- A live, in-person, two and one-half-day class and workshop in surface texture, friction, and wear will be held in Livonia, Michigan, on May 4–6, 2022. The class will include both lectures and hands-on equipment demonstrations, to help students expand their…
(Teledyne FLIR: Wilsonville, OR) -- Introducing the latest addition to Teledyne FLIR’s polarized Blackfly S GigE camera lineup—the BFS-PGE-123S6P-C. This new 12MP model is well suited for applications dealing with reflective or challenging lighting conditions. Ideal for use cases like traffic…
Grant Ramaley
The IAF Medical Device Working Group has updated one of the most important documents that supports the medical device quality system ISO 13485. IAF MD9:2022—“Application of ISO/IEC 17021-1 in the field of medical device quality management systems (ISO 13485)” provides the mandatory requirements for…
Rodney Rohde
Medical laboratory professionals form the backbone of healthcare and the public health system. They conduct some 13 billion laboratory medicine tests annually in the United States. As of February 2022, these individuals had also performed more than 900 million Covid-19 tests and counting during the…
Quality Digest
(NewTek: Pennsauken, NJ) -- NewTek offers a customized version of its High Temperature LVDT Position Sensor for material testing in environments with extreme pressures and high/low cryogenic temperatures. Configured to operate in temperatures exceeding 1000°F (538°C), the NT-HT-1000 Linear…
Ryan E. Day
ISO 9001:2015, Clause 6.1 introduces the term “actions to address risks and opportunities,” as a replacement for the standard’s previous term, “preventive actions.” The juxtaposition of “risks” and “opportunities” seems to imply a relational nature between the two concepts. But is it still…
Shannon Karels, Kathy Miller
Many tools and concepts can be applied when implementing a transformation in a business. But what makes the transformation meaningful? What is the thing that will drive the transformation’s success?
It’s not how well standard work is written or the number of pull cards in the loop, although it’s…
Quality Digest
(Emerson: Marshalltown, Iowa) -- Emerson has introduced the Fisher WhisperTube Modal Attenuator for noisy gas or vapor applications in a wide range of industries. The modal attenuator is a full-bore device offering 15-decibel sound suppression to reduce pipe noise produced by sources upstream, such…
Georgia Institute of Technology
This country’s semiconductor chip shortage is likely to continue well into 2022. Now, a Georgia Tech expert predicts that the United States will need to make major changes to the manufacturing and supply chain of these all-important chips to stave off further effects. That includes making more of…
Sana Kazilbash
The 3MF Consortium recently announced its latest volumetric design extension for encoding geometrical shapes and spatially diverse properties through a volume-based description. The organization, which seeks to advance a universal specification for 3D printing, is currently calling for public…
(Alluxa: Santa Rosa, CA) -- Alluxa, a global leader in high-performance optical coatings and filters and thin-film deposition technologies, has introduced a groundbreaking capability in extending spectral optical-coating performance. The SIRRUS plasma physical vapor deposition (PVD) platform now…
Michael Naber
The automotive industry is a critical part of the global economy, and the quality of the products it produces is essential for its success. Consumers demand high-quality vehicles that meet their needs, and companies in this industry must ensure that their products meet rigorous safety and…
Jennifer Helgeson, Maria Dillard
In September 2018, a North Carolina city’s long road to recovery from Hurricane Matthew two years earlier became even longer. Lumberton, a small but diverse city of 21,000 people, 96 km (60 miles) inland from the coast, unfortunately found itself in Hurricane Florence’s sights. The Lumber River,…
Theodoros Evgeniou, Caroline Zimmerman
This isn’t a new story: A novel technology disrupts society, bringing with it many benefits but also major risks and costs. We saw it during the Industrial Revolution, which vastly improved the average living standard but also led to poor labor conditions and environmental degradation, all within a…
(ETQ: Burlington, MA) -- ETQ, a leading quality management system (QMS) provider, has announced a major new release of its cloud-native Reliance QMS to enable organizations to more easily identify, analyze, and resolve quality issues. The company also launched Lab Investigation, an application for…
Quality Digest
(Access Control Group: Chandler, AZ) -- Chaotic work environments, distracted workers, and equipment zooming through facilities such as distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, construction sites, or ports can cause collision risks.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the…
(Princeton Infrared Technologies: Monmouth Junction, NJ) -- Princeton Infrared Technologies (PIRT), specialists in indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) imaging technology and affordable shortwave-infrared (SWIR) linescan cameras, visible-SWIR science cameras, and 1- and 2D imaging arrays, has…
Derek Hills
The importance of medical device cybersecurity is growing exponentially. As more devices become connected to the internet, threats to public safety mount. Cybercriminals, formerly interested in stealing financial or medical records, have begun to essentially hold healthcare providers hostage by…
Silke von Gemmingen
Lettuce is a valuable crop in Europe and the United States. But labor shortages make it difficult to harvest; finding sufficient seasonal labor to meet harvesting commitments is one of the sector’s biggest challenges. Moreover, with wages rising faster than producer prices, margins are tight.
In…
Quality Digest
(Vision Engineering: New Milford, CT) -- Vision Engineering announced the launch of Makrolite 4K, its first 4K-resolution microscope to complement the company’s range of digital inspection systems.
The Makrolite 4K was launched at Productronica 2021 in Munich and made its North American debut at…
Quality Digest
(LRQA: London) -- LRQA and ELEVATE are joining forces to meet the fast-growing need for transparency and assurance around environmental, social, and governance standards (ESG). LRQA, a leading global provider of digitally-enabled assurance services, including environmental conformity assessments,…
Donald J. Wheeler
Most of the world’s data are obtained as byproducts of operations. These observational data track what happens over time and have a structure that requires a different approach to analysis than that used for experimental data. An understanding of this approach will reveal how Shewhart’s generic,…
Sachin Waikar
‘Diversity means lots of things,” says Amir Goldberg, an associate professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. “These days, it evokes the idea of race or gender, but it’s also about how people think.”
Beyond their demographic differences, people working in a group…
(Mitutoyo: Aurora, IL) -- Mitutoyo America Corp. has released MCOSMOS v. 5.0, the newest version of its advanced metrology suite for coordinate measuring machines. This software, known as a standard throughout the world, offers support in 37 separate locations and in 12 different languages.
What…
Quality Digest
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, which provides engineering, production and quality technology and services to the world’s biggest and most innovative manufacturing leaders around the world, has announced a revolutionary…
