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Donald J. Wheeler
Walter Shewhart made a distinction between common causes and assignable causes based on the effects they have upon the process outcomes. While Shewhart’s distinction predated the arrival of chaos theory by 40 years, chaos theory provides a way to understand what Shewhart was talking about.…
Tristan Mobbs
Let’s consider how to build a data analytics community. Many organizations want to establish communities of practice or other structures with a similar aim, fostering best practice and collaboration, often with analysts working in different parts of a corporation.
A data analytics community can…
(ETQ: Burlington, MA) -- ETQ, part of Hexagon, has launched a new release of its award-winning, cloud-native QMS, Reliance NXG, allowing teams to create and edit Google Docs natively in Reliance. The company also launched its newest application, Quality Events, giving quality users the broadest set…
Hayder Radha
It’s hard to miss the flashing lights of fire engines, ambulances, and police cars ahead of you when you’re driving down the road. But in at least 11 cases from January 2018 to July 2021, Tesla’s Autopilot advanced driver-assistance system did just that. This led to 11 accidents in which Teslas…
Prashant Yadav
During the past two and a half years, we’ve seen unparalleled innovation and private-public collaboration in the global fight against Covid-19. The rapid development and rollout of new vaccines, diagnostic tests, and therapeutics have saved millions of lives.
However, these developments haven’t…
Quality Digest
(Continuous Composites: Coeur d’Alene, ID)-- Continuous Composites, a pioneer of advanced composite 3D printing technology, has been chosen by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to additively manufacture low Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) open isogrid composite…
Quality Digest
(Transatel: Paris) -- Global cellular connectivity service provider Transatel, a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT Group), announced the deployment on NTT’s Docomo network of its new worldwide 5G IoT solution for the industrial, IT and automotive sectors in Japan. Already…
(NIMS: Fairfax, VA) -- The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) has developed a new methodology to learn, retain, and transfer knowledge for Geometric Tolerancing & Dimensioning (GD&T) across an organization. NIMS offers the training in a day and a half workshop.…
Jonathan Griffin
Since the 1940s, engineers have used a common design language—a set of definitions, symbols, and practices—to draft engineering drawings that can serve as clear manufacturing blueprints or inspection checklists.
Although this system still works well for many traditional manufacturing methods, it…
Anisur Rahman, Arif Arifuzzaman, Edgar Lara-Curzio, Tomonori Saito, Sungjin Kim
Researchers at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ONRL) have developed an upcycling approach that adds value to discarded plastics for reuse in additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. The readily adoptable, scalable method introduces a closed-loop strategy that could globally…
David Stevens
The United States has more than 6,000 hospitals, and each one has thousands, if not tens of thousands, of clinical assets, such as imaging machines, ventilators, and IV pumps. Managing this equipment becomes a mighty task when hospital staff must handle the monitoring, repair, and maintenance of…
(PMMI: Chicago, IL)--PACK Challenge, a brand-new packaging competition, will bring six high school teams together for a head-to-head machine-building challenge at PACK EXPO International (Oct. 23-26, McCormick Place, Chicago), according to show producer, PMMI, The Association for Packaging and…
Quality Digest
(Bantam Tools: Peekskill, NY) -- Desktop CNC manufacturer Bantam Tools has launched its “Turnkey Solutions,” a CNC service that gives designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs a proven process to turn designs into physical parts. Bantam Tools engineers will develop a process for machining parts using…
(Waygate Technologies: Huerth, Germany) -- Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and the world’s leading provider of non-destructive testing (NDT) solutions for industrial inspection, will present its latest innovations in ultrasonic testing (UT) at the 2022 Wire & Tube shows. The…
(Business Wire: Campbell, CA) --Velo3D, Inc., a leading metal additive manufacturing technology company for mission-critical parts, has announced a new addition to its Sapphire family of printers with the Sapphire XC 1MZ. The new printer allows customers to print parts one meter in height—with a…
Richard Harpster
On Dec. 7, 2021, Ford Motor Co. updated its IATF 16949—“Customer specific requirements” (CSR), which require the use of reverse FMEAs (RFMEA) on new equipment (“tooling”). The first sentence of the reverse FMEA requirement reads: “Organizations are required to have a process in place that ensures…
Adam Zewe
Malicious agents can use machine learning to launch powerful attacks that steal information in ways that are tough to prevent and often even more difficult to study.
Attackers can capture data that “leak” between software programs running on the same computer. They then use machine-learning…
(Brightpearl: Bristol, U.K.) -- Small merchants in the US are struggling to get to grips with spiralling delays and costs of major Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects, according to a new study by Brightpearl, a world-leading retail operating system.
Leaders from more than 500 small-to-…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Almost everything about leadership—including how to adapt in a post-pandemic world, lead a hybrid workforce, and overcome burnout among skilled staff members to address the “great resignation”—has changed or been challenged over the last few years.
In 2022, 14…
Constance Noonan Hadley, Mark Mortensen
Most white-collar employees have spent the bulk of their career working in teams. However, the rise of hybrid work environments is changing work paradigms in ways that make us wonder whether we still need teams. We’re not saying this lightly: Between the two of us, we’ve spent more than 40 years…
Lily Chen, Matthew Scholl
In our connected, digital world, cryptographic algorithms are implemented in every device and applied to every link to protect information in transmission and in storage. During the past 50 years, the use of cryptographic tools has expanded dramatically, from limited environments like ATM…
Quality Digest
(Argolytics: State College, PA) -- Argolytics, maker of Trendable software solutions for quality control, announced a partnership with CFA Solutions, makers of the nonconformance tracking and reporting software 80/20 Quality. The new agreement will integrate the two software programs to make a…
Jeremy L. Boerger
You may not be familiar with the term “information technology asset management” (ITAM), but most businesses deal with it on a regular basis (for better or worse). ITAM is what helps control the costs of computers, servers, software, and services used to create the computing environment modern…
Naresh Pandit
Rather than rebounding in 2022, economic conditions in the United Kingdom have deteriorated. Forecasts for growth in 2022 and the year after have been cut dramatically.
The reasons for this are well documented. Take your pick from soaring energy costs, supply chain disruptions, the effect of Covid…
Quality Digest
(NIMS: Fairfax, VA) --The National Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS) has new on-the-job training solutions for employers to learn about at the 2022 International Technology Manufacturing Show (IMTS). The NIMS booth is 215618, located in the lower level of the north building of McCormick Place…
