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Ayush Soni
Audits and inspections are critical components of industrial safety management. These processes help organizations ensure compliance with legal requirements, identify risks, and improve workplace safety and operational efficiencies. Conducting regular audits and inspections is not just a regulatory…
Quality Digest
(PIPA LLC: Davis, CA) -- PIPA, a leader in enterprise intelligence for the food and nutrition industry, has launched the Digital Extruder platform. The new SaaS offering helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies accelerate product innovation, improve production efficiency, and satisfy growing…
Torsten Schimanski
Workforce development is an essential yet frequently overlooked aspect of supply chain management in manufacturing. Similar to how disruptions in material sourcing or logistics can halt operations, talent shortages and skill gaps create bottlenecks that jeopardize efficiency, quality, and growth. …
Donald J. Wheeler
Outliers are values that don’t “fit in” with the rest of the data. These extreme values are commonly considered a nuisance when we seek to summarize the data with our descriptive statistics. This article will show how to turn these nuisances into useful information.
The earliest statistical tests…
Quality Digest
(Platinum Tooling: Prospect Heights, IL) -- Platinum Tooling Technologies, importer and master distributor of live tools, angle heads, Swiss machine products, knurling, and marking tools manufactured by various international suppliers, will exhibit its extensive inventory of machine tool…
Quality Digest
(IDBS: Woking, England; Boston) -- BioIVT, a leading provider of in vitro ADME research services, has successfully completed a collaboration with IDBS to implement the IDBS E-WorkBook platform, significantly reducing study times by at least 30%. The project has enabled BioIVT to enhance efficiency…
Steven Ouellette
Many industries, from aerospace to medical device manufacturing, are required to show customers, auditors, or regulatory bodies that their measurement devices are acceptable for use. But how do you prove that?
One of my clients needed to show the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development…
Oliver Franz
Maybe you’re pulling reports from three different platforms, trying to reconcile numbers that don’t quite match. Maybe you’re manually copying and pasting from multiple spreadsheets, hoping you didn’t introduce any errors along the way. Or maybe you’re waiting on IT to clean up, prep data, and…
Quality Digest
(MIT Technology Review Insights: Cambridge, MA) -- A new report by MIT Technology Review Insights seeks to understand how the food industry can use AI to help meet the increasing global demand for nutritious, affordable produce, ensure resilient supplies, and minimize its effects on the environment…
IDS Imaging Development Systems
The slit-lamp examination is one of the most important diagnostic techniques in ophthalmology. It enables a detailed examination of the anterior, middle, and posterior segments of the eye. Ophthalmologists can use it to recognize the smallest changes, anomalies, or damage. This procedure is used…
Jennifer Chu
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align in one direction, others form intricate patterns, helping parts of the body move in multiple ways.
In recent years, scientists and engineers have…
Matt McFarlane
The medical device industry is growing. Data from KPMG predict that global annual sales will rise by 5% per year to reach just under $800 billion by 2030. New technology, new opportunities, and, as always, the promise of improving patient outcomes around the world are major drivers of growth within…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- How can we glean useful insights from databases containing confidential information while protecting the privacy of the individuals whose data are contained within?
Differential privacy, a way of defining privacy in a mathematically rigorous manner, can help strike this…
Christine Schaefer
José Pires, founder and CEO of Global Excellence & Innovation, has helped large and small organizations across multiple industries transform their leadership to achieve better results. Based on his decades of experience guiding organizations toward performance excellence, innovation, and…
Quality Digest
(NewTek: Pennsauken, NJ) -- NewTek LVDT linear position sensors and signal conditioners are used in aircraft test stands and maintenance training equipment to provide accurate feedback on the position of actuators in smaller light aircraft. Known for their high reliability over millions of cycles,…
Kate Zabriskie
It starts innocently enough. You want to ensure everything runs smoothly, so you check in often. You spot a typo in a presentation, so you fix it yourself.
Someone misses a minor detail and you think, “I’ll just handle it next time.” Before long, you’re reviewing every email, sitting in on every…
Quality Digest
(AMETEK: Buffalo, NY) -- Reichert Technologies, a business of AMETEK and a global leader in designing, engineering, and manufacturing refractometers and analytical instruments, has rolled out the latest enhancement of its Refractix Refractometer, now capable of measuring Brix to a hundredth of a…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials. Knowledge obtained by these new measurements, published in…
Quality Digest
(Sandvik Coromant U.S.: Mebane, NC) -- Cutting tool specialist Sandvik Coromant has launched its CoroMill Plura barrel, a new family of optimized solid end mills designed specifically for profiling applications. This new solution provides high process security, significant productivity gains, and…
Quality Digest
(MxD: Chicago) -- Join other industry professionals at the 2025 MBE & QIF Summit. This event is designed to benefit professionals working in or supporting the fields of design, manufacturing, or quality. The event will be at MxD in Chicago, April 15–17, 2025.
With a focus on the exchange of…
Mark Hembree
Some people don’t feel like they’re working unless their hair’s on fire. Somehow, they think it’s admirable to be feverish at a frenzied pace, breathless and full of urgency, turning tasks in record time and pushing the team to accelerate. Surely others will take notice and marvel at such hard work…
Quality Digest
(Paul N. Gardner Co.: Columbia, MD) -- Paul N. Gardner Co. (GARDCO), worldwide distributors, producers, and designers of quality physical and inspection instruments for paint, coatings, and related industries, announces its new Intelligent Weighing Technology 15481 balance scale.
Intelligent…
Angelina Rivera
Manufacturing is a fast-paced, constantly evolving, and dynamic environment, and the supply chain is at its heart. For small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs), navigating the complexities of the supply chain often feels like a high-stakes balancing act. From juggling fluctuating material costs…
Quality Digest
(A3: Ann Arbor, MI) -- The Association for Advancing Automation (A3), a leading voice in automation and robotics, is launching a new industry event, FOCUS: Intelligent Vision & Industrial AI Conference.
Scheduled for Sept. 24–25, 2025, in Seattle, this conference will provide an in-depth look…
Laura Mgrdichian-West
One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies will likely be based on “spintronics,” which leverages both an electron’s charge and its spin—the tiny “up” or “down” magnetic moment carried by every electron. Now, a…
