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(Momentum Technologies: Carrollton, TX) -- Momentum Technologies, a critical minerals refining and recovery company, has announced a series of milestones. Using its proprietary MSX technology, the company produced some of the purest rare earths ever reported at its demonstration plant in Carrollton…
Govind Ramu
Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads are reshaping the scale, speed, and risk profile of data center construction. As AI adoption accelerates, operators need more physical infrastructure, faster deployment cycles, and greater confidence that critical systems will perform as intended after handoff…
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(DEEPX: Seoul, South Korea) -- DEEPX, an on-device AI semiconductor pioneer, announces its ultralow-power NPU technology now powers the Sixfab AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, a new edge AI acceleration board developed by Sixfab, an edge AI hardware solutions company and official Raspberry Pi design…
Akhilesh Gulati
During a recent visit to a brewery in Dublin, I was stopped by one statement displayed on the tour: “The quality of our advertising must be equal to the quality of our beer.”
It was intended as branding. But it pointed to something most organizations quietly overlook: They assume quality begins…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Can we make artificial intelligence impervious to adversaries who want to twist the technology to nefarious ends? Though AI is among the newest of technologies, the question’s answer is nearly a century old.
Try as we might, we can't render AI completely unassailable…
Mike Figliuolo
All too often, leaders seek to build support for an idea by talking—a lot. They may go on and on about why the decision is a good one, detailing its benefits, the reasons others should support it, and the path forward. There’s passion and excitement behind the talk, and the leader lets it show…
Mike King, Julie Larsen
Midtier life sciences companies are spending more than ever on quality and regulatory technology, yet many are paying enterprise prices for capability they never use. The right question isn’t whether to invest in a quality management system (QMS) or regulatory information management (RIM) platform…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed advanced tools to detect abnormal power grid conditions that lead to wildfires, equipment damage, and blackouts. The approach incorporates artificial…
Quality Digest
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw has extended the capabilities of its XK20 alignment laser by introducing flatness and level measurement functionality to its CARTO XK20 app. This gives users additional tools to measure and adjust geometric errors during machine build and alignment, adding to…
greenlight.guru
Teams building software as a medical device (SaMD) tend to think of ISO 14971 as the hardware team’s problem. Risk management files, FMEA tables, severity scores: all quality and regulatory territory, while the engineers close Jira tickets. That split is where things go wrong.
ISO 14971 applies to…
Creaform
High-mix manufacturing has become the norm. Production lines are expected to produce more part variants in smaller batches and at a faster pace than ever before—all while maintaining very high quality.
To keep up, many manufacturers turn to automated quality control (AQC). Robots and 3D scanning…
Quality Digest
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence’s Stationary Metrology Division announced the release of VGSTUDIO MAX 2026.2, bringing a new approach to multipart coordinate measurement (CM) workflows alongside a fully restructured NextGen product…
NIST
As we celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary this year, NIST experts have been working to preserve our nation’s history for the next 250-plus years. Among other historic preservation efforts, NIST engineers and scientists created a bespoke time capsule with artifacts from around the country…
Quality Digest
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- What we think we know about nuclear power is changing. For example, an entrepreneur dropped a micro nuke power plant from off a Ford 250 pickup truck. Another shipped a small modular reactor on a semi flatbed. You get the idea; the times, they are a-changin’. This is the start…
Quality Digest
(KoCoS Messtechnik: Korbach, Germany) -- With the PROMET SE+, KoCoS Messtechnik AG introduces a new generation of its measurement system for mobile resistance testing.
The device is designed to support the early detection of critical contact issues and to integrate seamlessly into professional…
Allen Yeung
As a significant portion of the experienced manufacturing workforce approaches retirement, companies face the critical threat of losing undocumented tribal knowledge. Veteran operators possess decades of hard-won, job-specific insights that rarely exist in paper manuals or corporate file systems.…
Quality Digest
(TÜV Rheinland: Chicago) -- TÜV Rheinland North America has announced its collaboration with NVIDIA to support the certification pathway for AI-enabled safety systems in robotics and physical AI based on NVIDIA Halos.
As industries increasingly explore the deployment of autonomous systems that…
Sabine Terrasi
Inbound receiving operations (aka goods-in) in the electronics industry are under increasing pressure.
Countless components from a wide range of manufacturers arrive with constantly changing label layouts, multilingual markings, and ever shorter throughput times. What once could be managed…
Kate Zabriskie
When people hear the word innovation, they often think of groundbreaking products, disruptive technologies, or revolutionary ideas. But not every improvement needs to reinvent the wheel. Small changes might seem insignificant at first, but their cumulative effect can be transformative.
Improved…
Quality Digest
(DMSC: Rochester, NY) -- The Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) has announced that its Model-Based Characteristics v1.0 (MBC 1.0), “Persistent Identification and Related Digital Practices” standard, designated as DMSC MBC v1.0—2026, has been approved by the American National Standards…
Quality Digest
(Wall Colmonoy: Pontardawe, Wales) -- Wall Colmonoy has officially launched a 2.5 million pound ($3.3 million) vacuum precision investment casting (VPIC) facility in South Wales, aiming to strengthen the U.K.’s aerospace and defense manufacturing capability.
Unveiled at the company’s European…
Gleb Tsipursky
The office lights are on, but plenty of seats stay empty. Employees have heard the policy, nodded at talking points, and then organized their week around what helps them live well. That quiet opt-out shows up in badge data and calendar behavior, and it’s reshaping how leaders must think about…
Harish Jose
In this article I’m looking at Shunryū Suzuki’s beginner’s mind in Zen and Heinz von Foerster’s ethical imperative. Readers of my blog know that I love connecting the dots often in seemingly varying fields.
Suzuki said something useful: “In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities. In the…
Quality Digest
(Physik Instrumente: Shrewsbury, MA) -- For high-precision applications that don’t require the ultimate geometric performance of air bearings, the Physik Instrumente (PI) new V-700 series of mechanical-bearing XY stages provides an attractive alternative.
The V-783 high-precision linear motion…
Dusty Alexander
Ask anyone in manufacturing or in a project-driven company who has the most difficult job, and without hesitation they will say: the scheduler/planner.
It’s no wonder. Foolproof scheduling is critical to the smooth operation of most companies. Yet, planning and scheduling the workflow is akin to…