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Prashant Kapadia
Workforce scarcity and remote employment made it challenging to maintain industrial machinery during and after the Covid-19 epidemic. With the global industrial automation market expected to nearly double in the next six years, maintaining an increasing number of assets will result in more…

Gregory Way
Drugs don’t always behave exactly as expected. While researchers may develop a drug to perform one specific function that may be tailored to work for a specific genetic profile, sometimes the drug might perform several other functions outside of its intended purpose.
This concept of drugs having…
(Omnex: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Omnex has announced its latest webinar, “Automotive SPICE for Cybersecurity,” scheduled for Aug. 25, 2022, at 3 p.m. Eastern.
With vehicles increasingly software-defined in development, along with V2X communication and over-the-air (OTA) communication, cybersecurity has…
(GBMP: Plymouth, MA) -- The Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership conference is coming Sept. 28–29, 2022, to Springfield, Massachusetts, and will focus on identifying and sharing the causes of successful lean transformation as well as overcoming constraints to collaboration.
“It’s hard to argue…

Huw Thomas
In what has been called the “biggest moment for workers’ rights in a quarter of a century,” the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a safe and healthy work environment as one of its five fundamental principles and rights at work for all at its June 2022 international conference. This is…

Adam Zewe
Physicians often query a patient’s electronic health record for information that helps them make treatment decisions, but the cumbersome nature of these records hampers the process. Research has shown that even when a doctor has been trained to use an electronic health record (EHR), finding an…
(ASTM International: W. Conshohocken, PA) -- ASTM International’s additive manufacturing technologies committee (F42) is developing a new material testing standard for tensile properties of filaments.
This proposed standard (WK82320) could be used to determine basic performance information on the…

Gleb Tsipursky
Imagine you’re driving along the highway and you see an electric sign that reads, “79 traffic deaths this year.” Would this make you less likely to crash your car shortly after seeing the sign? Perhaps you think it would have no effect?
Neither are true. According to a recent peer-reviewed study…

Karina Montoya
Close to 9 million people in India suffer from hepatitis C. If left untreated, the virus leads to cirrhosis or liver damage, which eventually causes death from organ failure or cancer. On average, a 50-year-old man in India with asymptomatic liver damage who doesn’t receive treatment is expected to…

Alixandra Barasch
If you’ve ever played Wordle, learned a new language on Duolingo, or worked out with Peloton, you may be familiar with daily app notifications that nudge you to keep at it—or risk breaking a streak of consecutive efforts. Do you or don’t you heed the clarion call?
If you do, you’re in good company…
(DGM MORI: Davis, CA) – DGM MORI introduces the LASERTEC 100/160 PowerDrill for producing turbine components such as guide vanes, blades, and combustors.
Offering efficient laser drilling for aerospace and gas industries, the LASERTEC 100/160 PowerDrill features: • New moving column concept:…
(AW-Lake: Oak Creek, WI) -- AW-Lake offers a new portable transit time ultrasonic flow meter in addition to the full-size, clamp-on version that provides noncontacting flow measurement for the most challenging industrial environments with minimal installation complexity and costs. The new portable…
(LRQA: London) -- Manufacturers could be at growing risk of food fraud if they do not take the correct precautions when selecting new suppliers, according to global food safety assurance specialist LRQA.
With the pandemic, Brexit, and the war in Ukraine continuing to have a major impact on supply…

NIST
You need to measure length accurately to do things like make a dress, build a house, survey a plot of land, or determine if the home team made a first down on the football field. These length measurements and many others are often made with the help of a measuring tape. The major companies that…

Tom Rish
Your design history file (DHF) is one of the most critical components of your QMS. That’s because the DHF should contain all the product development documentation for a specific medical device. Its purpose is to show regulatory bodies and internal stakeholders that you appropriately followed the…
(Mitutoyo: Aurora, IL)-- Mitutoyo America has released the Quick Vision Pro Series, the latest generation of Mitutoyo Vision Measurement Systems. Quick Vision Pro Series machines are packed with high-performance technologies that greatly improve 3D noncontact measurement and productivity.
The new…
(Jedox: Freiburg, Germany) -- Jedox, an award-winning provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions for Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), has been named an Overall Leader for Customer Experience and Vendor Credibility in the 2022 Wisdom of Crowds Enterprise Performance…
(New Scale Robotics: Victor, NY) -- New Scale Robotics has released a new case study video with Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, a medical contractor manufacturer in Bridgeport, Michigan. Orchid uses New Scale’s Q-Span Robotic Gauging System to automate QC inspection of its machined surgical drills.…

Donald J. Wheeler
The analysis of residuals is commonly recommended when fitting a regression equation to a data set. It has even been recommended for the analysis of experimental data where the independent variable is categorical (i.e., treatment levels). In both of these contexts, it has been said that the…

Patricia Santos-Serrao
The pharmaceutical industry has seen significant upheaval and disruption during the past several years. These changes are due in part to the impacts of Covid—for example, interruptions in the supply chain and overwhelming market demand for shortened production times.
They are also being driven by…
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, Michigan)-- Marposs, a world leader in measurement, inspection, and test technologies, announces the availability of noncontact machine-vision measuring systems able to detect the presence of defects such as porosity, scratches, and depressions on the sealing surfaces of…

ISO
Standards are not for just the minority of businesses with thousands of employees. According to the World Bank, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) make up more than 90 percent of all companies and account for up to 70 percent of total employment. In developing countries, small…

Del Williams
Food processors have long sought a safer, more energy-efficient means to convey product with less spillage, breakage, or downtime due to necessary cleaning and maintenance. Although tubular drag conveyors have offered these desired attributes compared to belt, bucket, or pneumatic systems, many in…
(Association for Advancing Automation [A3]: Ann Arbor, MI) -- North American companies started the year by purchasing the most robots ever in a single quarter, with 11,595 robots sold at a value of $646 million.
According to the Association for Advancing Automation, these Q1 numbers represent…

Roxanne Oclarino
In an ideal world, a project economy would empower people with the skills and capabilities needed to turn ideas into reality. In that world organizations would deliver tremendous value to exceed stakeholders’ expectations by successfully completing projects. Yet research shows that only 35 percent…