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Mike Figliuolo
I recently went to Kings Island amusement park with the kids. Beyond experiencing the thrill of $9 sodas and wicked awesome roller coasters, I learned a few things about professional development while I was there.
Some of you love roller coasters, and some of you hate them. I used to hate them,…
Gabriel Popkin
Time: We all have a sense of it, an innate feel for it. We see it and use it every day. If you’re like me, the first thing you do in the morning is check the time on your phone to see if you need to get out of bed or if you can close your eyes and catch a few more z’s.
Once you’re up and moving,…
Quality Digest
(Mitutoyo American Corp.: Aurora, IL) -- Mitutoyo America Corp., a leader in precision measuring instruments, has announced the integration of the powerful Metlogix M3 software into the Mitutoyo Quick Image (QI) 2D Vision Measuring System. This latest enhancement promises to elevate the precision…
Quality Digest
(MiR: San Diego) -- Autonomous mobile robot (AMR) pioneer Mobile Industrial Robots has launched MiR Fleet Enterprise, a scalable, flexible, and secure fleet management software platform. This new software is designed to optimize overall material handling workflows to boost productivity. MiR Fleet…
Donald J. Wheeler
An engineer once told me, “I work on project teams that have an average half-life of two weeks, implementing solutions with an average half-life of two weeks.” Time after time, and in place after place, our improvement efforts often fall short of expectations and fade away. In this article, I will…
Adam Zewe
Large language models can do impressive things, like write poetry or generate viable computer programs, even though these models are trained to predict words that come next in a piece of text.
Such surprising capabilities can make it seem like the models are implicitly learning general truths…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- The U.S. Department of Energy took a major step in establishing artificial intelligence as a priority in the coming decades.
Specifically, Energy has announced a $67 million investment in a number of AI projects from institutions in both government and academia as part of…
Quality Digest
(Boston Materials: Billerica, MA) – Boston Materials Inc., a manufacturer of advanced materials key to the next generation of semiconductors and aircraft platforms, has announced $13.5 million in new funding. The investment was led by AccelR8 and Diamond Edge Ventures, the U.S.-based corporate…
Ronald Cowen
Even before Shamir Maldonado-Rivera graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in 2019 with an applied physics degree, she had already picked out her dream job working with semiconductors.
The only problem was that she lacked the hands-on experience.
Her university studies hadn’t given Maldonado…
Lauren Priddey
In the process of aerosol filling, precision and safety are crucial, given the complex nature of handling pressurized products and ensuring quality control at every stage. Traditionally, robots have been employed to automate several parts of production. But the introduction of collaborative robots…
Quality Digest
(Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta) -- A research team led by Georgia Tech’s Hailong Chen has developed a low-cost iron chloride cathode for lithium-ion batteries that could radically improve lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), potentially transforming the electric vehicle (EV) market and large-…
Quality Digest
(Sandvik Coromant: Sandviken, Sweden) -- Sandvik Coromant, a leading manufacturer of metal-cutting tools and solutions, has introduced the QS Micro—a new quick-change holding system developed specifically for sliding head machines. It promises exceptional precision, security, repeatability, and…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- Working Group 29 convened its seventh meeting, held remotely via Zoom on Sept. 26 and 27, 2024, to continue with the disposition of remaining comments received on the ISO 9001 committee draft. During the two days, 56 members took part in the meeting, representing 31 national…
Quality Digest
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon, a world leader in digital reality solutions that combine sensors, software, and autonomous technologies, has expanded its collaboration with the automotive manufacturer SEAT S.A., building upon a 25-year partnership working with…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
The opening line on the Systematic QMS website is “Welcome to Systematic Quality Management Systems Inc. Where Service Is Our Passion!”
The warm tone and promise to provide excellent, tailored customer service while delivering a very technical cloud-based quality management system is refreshing…
Creaform
In today’s market, it seems like all 3D scanners have similar specifications, as if manufacturers look at their competitors’ data and use the same numbers. Data sheets, marketing videos, and even product appearances all look comparable, making it difficult to distinguish quality based on technical…
Chris Rush
While clinical trials are the gold standard for generating clinical data to use as evidence of your medical device’s safety and effectiveness, they are by no means the only way to gather clinical evidence.
Real-world data (RWD), which typically come from routine healthcare delivery or…
Quality Digest
(Siemens: Munich) -- Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering, a leading provider of software in the industrial simulation and analysis market. Altair shareholders will receive $113 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10 billion. The offer price…
Mike Figliuolo
Leadership is perilous territory. People’s lives are at stake (sometimes literally). Although avoiding the following seven deadly sins won’t guarantee you’ll be a great leader, succumbing to them will guarantee you’ll have a significant learning moment. (Translation: You’ll fail miserably, but…
Stephanie Ojeda
In the highly regulated world of life sciences, data integrity isn’t optional; it’s essential. The ALCOA principles—attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, and accurate—provide a foundational framework for ensuring data are reliable and trustworthy.
With the rise of digital…
Quality Digest
(IEEE: Piscataway, NJ) -- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, has released the results of “The Impact of Technology in 2025 and Beyond: An IEEE Global Study,” a new…
Quality Digest
(Steel Dynamics Inc.: Fort Wayne, IN) -- Steel Dynamics has recently joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership (GPP). Steel Dynamics was recognized by the EPA as No. 21 on its list of Green Power Partners from the Fortune 500, and No. 33 on its National Top 100 list…
Harish Jose
In this article, I look at the idea of “sweeping-in” in systems approach. Sweeping-in can be described as the process of opening up the inquiry of a system by expanding its boundaries. Philosopher and systems scientist C. West Churchman discussed this process in several works, including Thought and…
Johan Sjöberg
As dairies scramble to meet sustainability targets ahead of the first year of responding to the European Union Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the significant losses in push-out processes have been identified as low-hanging fruit by many companies.
From 2025, listed companies in the…
Quality Digest
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw’s new TEMPUS technology enables users of RenAM 500 series metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems to reduce build times by up to 50%. Using advanced scanning algorithms that sequence the layer data to maximize productivity while maintaining part quality,…
