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(Venus Aerospace: Houston) -- Venus Aerospace has been selected for the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Technology Pioneers cohort, joining 100 early-stage companies recognized this year for their potential to reshape industries and address global challenges.
Many of the technologies expected to shape…
Luca Ziveri
A line operator in a chemical packaging plant notices a torque inconsistency on a capping head. The deviation is within tolerance on the individual reading, but the operator has seen this pattern before; it usually precedes a run of out-of-spec caps over the next two shifts. He would normally flag…
Greg Rankin
As pharmaceutical manufacturers push toward lower detection limits, tighter impurity thresholds, and faster development cycles, elemental analysis has become a more critical part of quality and compliance.
Regulatory frameworks such as U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) <232>, USP <233>, and…
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(WFL: Linz, Austria) -- The defense industry is entering a new industrial era. Faced with increasing production requirements, geopolitical tensions, and the need to reshore strategic manufacturing capabilities within Europe, manufacturers must now produce faster, locally, and with complete process…
Chip Bell
When Odysseus went off to fight the Trojan War, as reported by Homer in The Odyssey, he didn’t take along his wet-behind-the-ears son, destined to be heir to his throne.
Concerned about who would give his son “kinging skills,” he chose an old family friend, Mentor, to be Telemachus’ teacher.…
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(NewTek Sensors: Pennsauken, NJ) -- NewTek linear position sensors support the space industry in both flight vehicles and ground-based testing applications, delivering precise position measurements in mission-critical environments. Engineered to perform under challenging conditions, including…
Neerav Singh
Audit week has a way of revealing gaps that stay invisible during normal operations. Your methods are sound, and your data look clean. Then the assessor asks for the calibration certificate on the torque wrench used last Tuesday, and someone heads off to find it.
That small gap, a record that…
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(Waygate Technologies: Huerth, Germany) -- Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and global leader in nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions for industrial and energy infrastructure inspection, has announced the launch of Krautkrämer PAXYS, a portable phased array (PA) ultrasound scanner…
Stephanie Ojeda
In the larger organizations I worked for as a quality leader, supplier auditing was almost always calendar-driven. Sometimes supplier audits happened once a year; in other places, they might happen twice. I’d build the schedule to accommodate that, and the system would just run.
Over time, I…
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(AMT: Orion, MI) -- Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), a leader in automation engineering specializing in advanced material handling, end-of-line solutions, on-demand engineering services, and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics, exhibited at…
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(Titomic USA Inc.: Huntsville, AL) -- Titomic USA Inc. is marking a year of remarkable growth, strategic partnerships, and continued advancement of its Titomic Kinetic Fusion (TKF) cold spray additive manufacturing, coatings, and repairs technology across the United States and globally. This is a…
Aity Ritesh Raj
FDA inspectors don’t just check your records. They bring their own thermometer.
And when their reading doesn’t match six months of logged data from the sensor on your cold room wall, the honest explanation is one nobody wants to say: The monitoring system was compliant; the measurement just wasn’t…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have created a new tool that can catch and correct potential mistakes in real time while 3D-printing large plastic parts.
The automated system could help U.S. manufacturers produce large, custom parts with…
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(Teledyne: Waterloo, ON) -- Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in machine vision technology, announced the release of its next-generation Linea HS2 8k back-side-illuminated (BSI) 1 MHz time delay integration (TDI) camera.
Designed for ultrahigh-speed imaging in light…
David Isaacson
Quality Digest recently spoke with David Isaacson, the executive director of portfolio marketing at Octave. Besides his work on marketing strategies, he also helps people manage, understand, and better control their operations with software solutions that protect industry assets and people while…
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(Electra: Manassas, VA) -- Electra, a global leader in hybrid-electric aviation, has unveiled a new conceptual aircraft design for next-generation airliners developed as part of NASA’s Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental Sustainability (AACES) 2050 program. The study explores how targeted…
Seb Murray
Industrial robots don’t just shape pay today. Research from Pinar Yildirim, a Wharton professor of economics and marketing, shows they also make workers less likely to move into higher-paying occupations, cutting expected lifetime earnings.
“Workers aren’t necessarily losing their jobs, and it…
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(CAREstream America: Sanford, FL) -- CAREstream America, a leader in medical solution distribution for hospitals and aesthetics, announces an exclusive distribution partnership to bring Celltermi HS and NX Plus, an advanced probiotic-derived microbiome technology, to the U.S. market.
Celltermi HS…
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(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced the release of Geomagic Control X 2026.1, the industry-leading 3D metrology software that enables manufacturers to capture, analyze, and validate scan-based inspection data across the entire product life…
Rebecca Okamoto
Think fast: What’s the No. 1 rule of troubleshooting?
Get to the root cause. It’s the foundation principle drilled into every problem solver: Find the underlying cause for a problem—not just a symptom or contributing issue—then fix it.
But what if getting to root cause and fixing it is the exact…
Mike Figliuolo
Focusing on metrics is key to achieving your desired business results—but it can be difficult to determine which metrics actually matter. There are five major questions you need to answer to ensure the metrics you’re measuring matter, and that you can take action based on what they tell you.
Some…
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(Siemens: Plano, TX) -- Siemens has announced the expansion of the Simcenter advanced engineering simulation and test solutions portfolio with Simcenter PhysicsAI software, which empowers engineers to almost instantly evaluate bold design concepts and variations.
Simcenter PhysicsAI brings proven…
Paul Hanaphy
Artec 3D is best known for professional 3D scanners. So it may come as a surprise that the company also offers a low-cost, accessible solution: AI photogrammetry.
Available via an Artec Studio Lite subscription or the full version of Artec’s flagship software, Artec Studio Pro, this feature is a…
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(Onto Innovation: Tucson, AZ) -- Onto Innovation’s Tucson-based subsidiary 4D Technology has announced the launch of the 4Di InSpec SR roughness measurement system—a novel, portable, vibration-immune optical system for high-precision 3D surface roughness measurement at the point of use.
The 4Di…
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(GBMP: Boston) -- GBMP Consulting Group has announced that registration is open for the 22nd Annual Northeast Lean Conference (#NELEAN2026), Sept. 29–30, 2026, at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. Lean practitioners, operational leaders, and continuous improvement professionals…