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(ComplianceQuest: Tampa, FL) -- ComplianceQuest is now featured in the TechHub Marketplace, a searchable online directory created by the National Safety Council and designed to help companies easily find technology providers best suited to address their unique safety risks.
Companies looking to…
Denise Robitaille
The buzz has begun. ISO 9001 is being revised. There hasn’t been a revision in about 10 years, so it’s due—if not overdue. Still, there are individuals who don’t understand the justification or the purpose of the revision. After all, it’s a perfectly good standard. So, what’s up?
It’s worth…
Jennifer King
The cost of poor quality can be devastating to business: Failed quality control costs manufacturers anywhere between 15–20% of their total profits on average, and as much as 40% for some, the ASQ reveals. Businesses with successful quality programs, on the other hand, can benefit from increased…
Evident Scientific
(Evident: Waltham, MA) -- Evident Corp., a leader in innovative inspection solutions, has announced significant advancements in operability and versatility with its field-proven phased array inspection solutions, MapROVER and SteerROVER scanners. To help resolve onsite challenges, these scanners…
Quality Digest
(Aras: Andover, MA) -- Aras, a leader in product life cycle management (PLM) and digital thread solutions, has announced new enhancements for Aras Innovator, its open and adaptable platform for deploying PLM and digital thread solutions.
Built on a highly scalable product data platform, Aras…
William A. Levinson
What do quality and productivity have to do with World War III, which we all hope will never happen? The answer is everything. A massive loss of American manufacturing capability between 1945 and 2024 has conceded enormous advantages to aggressor nations that might be inclined to break the peace.…
Adam Creuziger
Like many people, as a child I had dreams of flying into space as an astronaut. That interest in aerospace and space exploration has continued throughout my life.
So when my colleague Tim Foecke, who was working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the time, invited me to…
Jones Loflin
When we talk about a lack of work-life balance, stress, or burnout, one of the things we’re actually saying to ourselves is that we feel we have no control over the outcome or our future. It can feel like the line between work and life has blurred into one big, overwhelming blob.
It’s time for a…
(Bucher Hydraulics: Elgin, IL) -- Bucher Hydraulics, a global provider of hydraulic solutions for the mobile and industrial markets, has recently launched an online model builder created by CADENAS PARTsolutions. The tool provides on-demand product configuration and CAD downloads for Bucher’s self-…
(Fluent Metal: Cambridge, MA) -- Fluent Metal is developing production-grade liquid metal printing to remove barriers to metal additive manufacturing while allowing for unmatched scalability and process tunability.
Fluent Metal’s drop-on-demand approach is compatible with most metals, including…
(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…
