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To combat Covid-19 amid supply shortages in 2020, healthcare facilities across the United States resorted to disinfecting personal protective equipment (PPE), such as N95 masks, for reuse with methods such as ultraviolet (UV) light. But questions lingered about the safety and efficacy of these…
(TrueGage: Jeannette, PA) -- TrueGage announced the release of TrueMap 6, a major new version of the company’s software platform for surface imaging and analysis.
With version 6 comes a fully redesigned version of TrueMap software. This latest version of the software is fully 64-bit and contains…
(Mitutoyo America Corp.: Aurora, IL) -- Mitutoyo America Corp. has released the RTX Roundtracer Extreme, an all-in-one measuring system that integrates roundness, contour and surface roughness measurement functions on a single platform to save time and improve productivity. This advanced CNC…
The MEP National Network
Employees matter. They are difficult to find and hard to replace, especially in today’s labor market. Besides figuring out why someone leaves unexpectedly, it’s important to consider the other side of the equation—what about your company makes people stay.
As part of the annual NIST MEP survey, we…
Sowmya Juttukonda
By 2035, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to increase business productivity by up to 40 percent. It’s already a part of people’s daily lives and its use is only expected to increase to solve more critical problems that assail our world.
Businesses are looking at AI to achieve cost-…
Eric Pauley
Organizations’ failure to properly manage the servers they lease from cloud service providers can allow attackers to receive private data, as research my colleagues and I conducted has shown.
Cloud computing allows businesses to lease servers the same way they lease office space. It’s easier for…
(RPI: Bath, UK) -- RPI UK, a world leader in precision rotation and angular positioning, will launch the TruMotion rotary table at Control 2022.
TruMotion verifies small or medium circular parts with a world-class accuracy more commonly seen in the standards laboratory.
Manufacturers in the high-…
Mark Hembree
As a late Boomer, I can say my particular age group is better positioned than any to marvel at and bemoan what’s become of journalism and publishing in the last 40 years.
Not that I’m a Luddite. The advent of word processors was a boon to ham-fisted typists like me. A word processor that actually…
Andrew Myers
Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color. Relying on common, off-the-shelf sensor technology—known as CMOS—these cameras have grown smaller and more powerful by the year and now offer tens-of-…
(Siemens Digital Industries Software: Plano, TX) -- Saildrone, a California-based company that designs, manufactures, and operates a fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), has adopted Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, including cloud-enabled Xcelerator as a Service solution, enabling it to innovate…
Jonathan Gilpin
Regardless of how much we, as a society, are able to implement and use technologies in business, global supply chains will always be dependent on the ways in which people interact with one another.
Even local supply chains can be problematic, but it’s predominantly global ones that can pose…
MIT News
The Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (GEL Program) recently revamped and relaunched Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping (D-PRO), a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics course last taught in 2012. It was updated to center on a new multidisciplinary project focused on…
(InfinityQS International: Fairfax, VA) -- InfinityQS International, the global authority on data-driven enterprise quality, has announced that Eric Weisbrod, vice president of product management, and Jason Chester, director of global channel programs, have been named to Supply & Demand Chain…
Gleb Tsipursky
The future of work—of hybrid and fully remote workers—will require upskilling of employees for organizations that wish to succeed in the post-Covid world. Leaders who want to seize a competitive advantage in that future will need to benchmark their training initiatives for best practices on…
Brittney McIver
At some point, every medical device company will encounter an issue that requires an internal investigation. Whether it’s due to a nonconformance, complaint, CAPA, or an audit issue, you’ll have to conduct a failure or root cause investigation to pinpoint why the issue occurred in order to resolve…
Marc Lepere
As the war in Ukraine rages, finance professionals on Wall Street and in Europe recently attracted outrage by suggesting that investing in arms manufacturers should be treated as ethical investing. In the fight against tyranny, they argued that such an investment “preserves peace and global…
(Mold-Masters: Georgetown, ON, Canada) -- Mold-Masters has enhanced the advanced plastic leak detection capabilities found on its TempMaster hot runner temperature controllers. Mold-Masters is the first in the industry to use thermal analysis to detect plastic leaks within the manifold pocket. This…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva)--On March 2, 2022, at the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, senior representatives from 175 countries backed a groundbreaking resolution to stop plastic pollution. This will result in a legally binding, international agreement by the end of 2024, aiming to make…
(Weatherford, Texas: April 4, 2022) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) today announced that nominations are open for its Executive Committee, including for the position of Vice Chair. Nominees must be members of the CMS.
Founded in 1984, the CMS is a large membership of users, service…
David Chandler
Industrial processes for chemical separations, including natural gas purification and the production of oxygen and nitrogen for medical or industrial uses, are collectively responsible for about 15 percent of the world’s energy use. They also contribute a corresponding amount to the world’s…
Knowledge at Wharton
Negotiating a salary increase or a job promotion ranks high on the list of hard conversations to have at work, and it doesn’t get any easier without a plan.
“People think, ‘I’m just going to knock on their door, sit down with them, and noodle around and see where this goes.’ That’s not a plan,”…
(LMA Consulting Group: Claremont, CA) -- Manufacturing and supply chain expert Lisa Anderson, president of LMA Consulting Group, predicts supply chain disruptions to continue through 2023. She suggests implementing a sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) or sales and operations planning (…
(PQ Systems: Dayton, OH) -- PQ Systems, the most recommended provider of quality software solutions, has acquired The Elsmar Cove, the leading quality forum for industry professionals.
Elsmar.com was originally launched by standards compliance expert Marc Smith in January 1996 as a free resource…
William A. Levinson
Ryan Day1 describes how the rise of independent auto dealers is a “gray swan” event for the automobile industry. This was not only bound to happen, as observed by the author, but also long overdue. The article states, “...current state laws prohibit OEMs from selling new vehicles directly to…
Bryan Christiansen
Top management often struggles to approve large sums required for annual maintenance because the expense is seen as a necessary evil. As a result, if a business encounters short-term financial constraints, the first place it looks for savings is maintenance.
This is why your maintenance budget can…
