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(Premier Equipment: Altamonte Springs, FL) -- Premier Equipment, a leading provider of manufacturing equipment, is proud to announce its first-ever Premier Equipment CNC Scholarship. Started in February 2024, this annual scholarship program underscores Premier Equipment’s commitment to fostering…
Alonso Diaz, Maria DiBari
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emphasizes the importance of being prepared for device recalls.
FDA product recalls are on the rise in the post-pandemic era. There has been a clear upward trend from 2021 through 2023, and medical devices ranked the highest of all product types. (See…
Mike Figliuolo
Organizations that use “stay bonuses” as a retention tool could be making a huge mistake. Instead of letting poor performers go, they pay tons of money to keep them.
It’s been a rough year in the market. Let’s hit rewind and explore some underlying axioms about business. Sure, many of these are…
(3M: St. Paul, MN) -- 3M and HD Hyundai Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (KSOE) have signed a joint research project agreement to develop large liquid hydrogen storage tanks using glass bubbles from 3M– high-strength, low-density hollow glass microspheres. The collaborative research will…
(Kitov.ai: Petah Tikva, Israel) -- Kitov.ai, a leading company in intelligent visual inspection solutions, announced significant improvements to its flagship software platform with the introduction of version 2.7. The latest version offers enhanced user experience and expanded functionality for…
Quality Digest
(Omnex: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Omnex has announced its latest webinars, “Changes to Medical Device Legislation, Adopting ISO 13485 to 21 CFR 820” and “ASPICE 4.0 is out—are you informed? Hardware point of view”
Webinar: “Changes to Medical Device Legislation, Adopting ISO 13485 to 21 CFR 820” Date and…
Ben P. Stein
Many critics and movie fans alike name 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark as one of the best films of all time. But watching the movie as a 12-year-old, I didn’t realize that it has what some consider to be a major flaw, pointed out in a 2013 episode of The Big Bang Theory.
As the argument goes,…
Seb Murray
Have a massive, daring goal in mind? Breaking it into smaller steps can help you achieve your dreams.
A research paper led by Wharton Ph.D. alumni Aneesh Rai and Edward Chang and co-authored by Wharton professors Marissa Sharif, Katy Milkman, and Angela Duckworth found that breaking down a…
Adam Zewe
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- Before a robot can grab dishes off a shelf to set the table, it must ensure its gripper and arm won’t crash into anything and potentially shatter the fine china. As part of its motion planning process, a robot typically runs “safety check” algorithms that verify its…
Alissa Greenberg
Calls for cultural transformation have become ubiquitous in the past few years, encompassing everything from advancing racial justice and questioning gender roles to rethinking the American workplace. Hazel Rose Markus recalls the summer of 2020 as a watershed for those conversations. “Everybody…
Stephanie Ojeda
Implementing an automated compliance management solution is a mammoth undertaking with high stakes and potentially high returns for those who navigate the process successfully.
Get it right and you could save thousands of labor hours, avoid millions of dollars in compliance issues, and free up…
(Tompkins Robotics: Orlando, FL) -- Tompkins Robotics, a global leader in robotic sorting solutions for distribution and fulfillment operations, has announced PickPallet, an autonomous pallet jack solution for warehouse and distribution centers around the globe. As the second offering in the…
(Hexagon: Cobham, England) -- Manufacturers that fail to get their data in order risk being left behind their rivals, a new report from Hexagon reveals. The global survey of more than 500 manufacturing leaders, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Hexagon, found that 98% of…
(Comau: Southfield, MI, and Grugliasco, Italy) -- Comau and Leonardo have jointly developed and are testing a powerful, self-adaptive robotic solution to autonomously inspect helicopter blades measuring up to 7 m. The cutting-edge solution ensures higher quality and greater flexibility without…
(X-Rite: Grand Rapids, MI) -- As the urgency of climate change grows, the global plastic market faces increasing pressure to minimize its environmental impact. At NPE2024, May 6–10, in Orlando, Florida, X-Rite, a global leader in color science and technology, will showcase how digital color…
Mark Graban
I’ve learned so much from Timothy R. Clark of the firm LeaderFactor, and author of the excellent book, The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety (Berrett-Koehler, 2020). I can’t recommend his work enough—including his free podcasts, webinars, and more. I was fortunate to go through a formal…
Daniel Marzullo
If you ever feel like some parts of your work turbocharge your day while other parts leave you running on empty, it might be time for an energy audit.
This exercise can be a game-changer if you feel unmotivated or uninspired by your work. Here’s how to do it.
Reflect on your typical workday. Which…
Graham Ward
Just as there’s no yin without yang, there’s no leadership without followership. The two interdependent and complementary roles can’t exist without each other.
Followership is the symbiotic interchange between a leader and those they seek to influence. However, the word has long carried…
Georgia Institute of Technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a light-based means of printing nano-sized metal structures that is significantly faster and cheaper than any technology currently available. It is a scalable solution that could…
David L. Chandler
In the predawn hours of Sept. 5, 2021, engineers achieved a major milestone in the labs of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) when a new type of magnet, made from high-temperature superconducting material, achieved a world-record magnetic field strength of 20 tesla for a large-scale…
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- IMBU releases “AI Reconstruction,” an innovative 3D computed tomography (CT) reconstruction software solution powered by artificial intelligence that lifts the traditional trade-off between scan speed and image quality.
By applying deep learning techniques to…
Mike Figliuolo
It’s important to have customer-friendly policies if you want to have a great customer service culture. Your policies drive team behaviors, so be sure they’re consistent with the brand you want to put forward.
I’m going to hark back to my recent post, “$325 Equals $210? The Math of Customer-…
Quality Digest
(SICK: Minneapolis) -- All in one, one for all: With the new W10 photoelectric proximity sensor, SICK presents a sensor that can be used to solve a wide range of detection tasks in automation technology more universally than ever before.
The sensor series comprises just four variants, which differ…
William A. Levinson
In his Quality Digest article published in February 2023, Michael Mills1 reported that the next version of ISO 9001 will add to clause 4.1, “Understanding the organization and its context” the words, “the organization shall determine whether climate change is a relevant issue.”
Although nothing in…
James Chan
Tracking work orders is an essential aspect of work order management, and it becomes immensely more efficient with the help of tracking software.
Work orders are the centerpiece of an effective maintenance program. Once a work order request is initiated, it triggers a set of tasks and workflows…
