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Manufacturing Automation Systems LLC
In today’s global manufacturing markets, the need for accurate measurement has moved well beyond micrometers, gauges, and calipers. That’s why manufacturers are replacing manual metrology tools with fully automated systems. But what is automated metrology?
Automated metrology, sometimes called 3D…
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs, a global leader in measurement, inspection, and test technologies, has introduced a universal device that makes the calibration and validation of leak-testing equipment both simpler and more accurate than offline methods.
Porosity, cracks, leaky gaskets, and…
(InnovMetric: Quebec City, Canada) -- InnovMetric, an independent software development company that empowers manufacturers of every size to digitally transform their 3D measurement processes, announces the launch of PolyWorks 2023. This new release expands the PolyWorks universal 3D metrology…
Rip Stauffer
A couple of years ago, my wife decided to surprise me by taking me over to our local Tesla dealership so I could test drive a Tesla. We put a deposit down to hold our place in line, and two months later took delivery of a Model Y Performance. I loved everything about it, took everyone who asked…
Jan Irzyk
(ANCA: Melbourne, Australia) -- The tool manufacturing industry embraces automation solutions at an unprecedented pace. This is a worldwide trend driven by several factors, such as labor shortage, increasing labor costs, the need for maximizing uptime, the push for 24/7 machine availability, and…
Matt Fieldman, Blair Milo
I’m ashamed to say that I’ve only been to Indiana once—for a fun weekend in Indianapolis. I will say that its Children’s Museum is truly world-class, and it was great going duckpin bowling for the first time.
Though I haven’t taken full advantage of Indiana as a tourist destination (yet!), as a…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata Inc., a leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announced the publication of an e-book, BOM-Driven Digital Mock-Up.
Digital Mock-Up (DMU) is a construct that provides the virtual 3D description of a product throughout its life cycle…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Autonomous Systems group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is in high demand as it incorporates remote sensing into projects needing a bird’s-eye perspective. When it comes to collecting data for environmental and national security research, the team sends its…
William A. Levinson
I wrote previously1 that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics are often dysfunctional because they prioritize the wrong things and thus deliver the wrong results.
The recent failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) despite SVB Financial Group’s “medium” (at the time) ESG risk rating…
Scott A. Snyder
Recently, ESG has become a main topic of shareholders, boards, and C-suites. Billions in capital have been deployed through Impact or ESG-rated funds. Ninety percent of S&P 500 companies now have ESG strategies, and ESG mentions grew more than 300 percent in investor briefings. Major indices…
(AMETEK MOCON: Brooklyn Park, MN) -- AMETEK MOCON’S new mid-capacity gas mixer, the Dansensor MAP Mix Focus, uses an electronic mixing principle to mix food-grade MAP gases accurately and reliably.
“By adding this new midrange electronic gas mixer to our mixer portfolio, we can now provide…
Bob Ferrone
Quality and sustainability are two critical aspects of modern business operations that are closely intertwined. While quality refers to the level of excellence or standard achieved in a product or service, sustainability relates to the ability to maintain or improve that quality over time while…
(MasterMover: Charlotte, NC) -- MasterMover, the world’s leading manufacturer of electric tug and tow solutions, announces a new partnership with vehicle automation leader BlueBotics to provide best-in-class ANT navigation technologies for MasterMover’s range of automated guided vehicles (AGVs).…
Etienne Nichols
I have a bold opinion: The corrective and preventive action (CAPA) process is the second-most important component of your quality management system (QMS). (If you want to know what I think is No. 1, shoot me an email.) As you build medical devices, a well-defined CAPA program provides a framework…
Michael Oullette
(Siemens: Munich) -- Siemens has launched a new Intralogistics vertical to bring material-handling thought leadership, hardware automation, software, and service solutions to its U.S. customers.
The company leverages its broad technology to address digital transformation, cybersecurity, safety,…
Gleb Tsipursky
A recent study at the University of Birmingham, which surveyed 597 managers, has shed light on how managers’ attitudes toward the hybrid work model have changed as a result of the pandemic. Surprisingly, the findings reveal an increasingly positive outlook on the benefits of remote and flexible…
Bryan Christiansen
People often use the terms maintenance and reliability interchangeably. However, they are two separate concepts. Although there is some overlap, their scope and focus are quite different.
Understanding those differences, as well as how each concept affects the other, is a necessary step for…
(SymphonyAI Industrial, Woburn, MA) -- SymphonyAI Industrial, a SymphonyAI division, announced that European industrial and medical gases company Nippon Gases has signed a long-term agreement to extend its use of APM 360 to improve asset performance supporting plant operations and output across its…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The feedstock used to additively manufacture, or 3D-print, metal parts is often a fine powder of metallic particles. The traits of these powders play a key role in determining the quality of printed parts, but many questions stand about how to optimize them.
What powder…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
“The best is the enemy of good,” wrote French historian and philosopher Voltaire. Today that quote seems more appropriate than ever. A longitudinal meta-analysis study from 1989 to 2016 looking at data from more than 41,000 students across the U.S., U.K., and Canada revealed that perfectionism has…
Bruce Hamilton
There’s a certain irony in the recent attention paid to the application of robots on the shop floor. On a couple occasions in the past year, I’ve heard manufacturing colleagues talk about the benefits of deploying robots to handle material conveyance. “Better,” they say, “to redeploy humans to…
Shawn Wasserman
MathWorks, creators of MATLAB and Simulink, and the embedded software safety and security company Green Hills Software have announced new features in Simulink that help engineers produce safety-related applications for Infineon’s AURIX TC4x family of automotive microcontrollers. Specifically,…
(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- In quality assurance, it’s often necessary to reliably detect deviations from the norm. Industrial cameras have a key role in this, capturing images of products and analyzing them for defects. If the error cases aren’t known in advance or are too diverse, however, rule-…
(Schreiner PrinTrust: Shanghai) – Schreiner PrinTrust, a developer of customized radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions and security labels for system and service providers with a focus on identification and authentication, is supplying RFID-enabled films for seventhings, a German software…
(Critical Manufacturing: Maia, Portugal) -- At Hannover Messe, Critical Manufacturing will be highlighting how its manufacturing execution system (MES) empowers manufacturers with advanced capabilities to drive innovation, increase connectivity, and promote digital transformation with out-of-the-…
