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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- A collection of seven technologies for lithium recovery developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed to Element3, a Texas-based company focused on extracting lithium from wastewater produced by oil and gas…
Quality Digest
(Artec 3D: Santa Clara, CA) -- Artec 3D, a 3D scanning hardware and software leader, has launched a special offer to help Artec Eva Lite users expand their efforts and capture even more-detailed 3D models.
For a limited time, Eva Lite owners can upgrade their device to an Artec Eva for about $4,…
Knowledge at Wharton
Nano Tools for Leaders, a collaboration between Wharton Executive Education and Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management, are fast, effective tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes, with the potential to significantly affect your success and the engagement and…
Rachel Gordon
‘I’ll have you eating out of the palm of my hand” is an unlikely utterance you’ll hear from a robot. Why? Most of them don’t have palms.
If you have kept up with the protean field, gripping and grasping more like humans has been an ongoing, Herculean effort. Now, a new robotic hand design…
NIST
Many consumers across the United States are increasingly aware of the decreasing quantity for many of the products that they regularly purchase and consume. This concept is know as product downsizing or shrinkflation, a term used to describe how a consumer product is sold at the same price, but its…
Quality Digest
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced the launch of PRESTO System, an innovative modular suite of automated robotic inspection cells revolutionizing the landscape of 3D measurement for automotive and aerospace…
Mike Figliuolo
My platoon was out in the field on training exercises. We had been out there for about two weeks, so we all smelled kind of “ripe” at that point. One of the more senior officers in my battalion came to my unit’s area to see how things were going. This “gentleman” personified the term—he was an “…
Gabriel Popkin
They’re called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, a group of thousands of compounds that contain a chemical bond between fluorine and carbon. That bond has proved to be one of the most stable and unbreakable known to chemistry—a fact baked into the common nickname “forever chemicals,”…
Quality Digest
(Waygate: Huerth, Germany) -- Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and world leader in nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions for industrial inspection, has launched its new ultrasonic precision thickness gauge, the Krautkrämer CL Go+.
This versatile and convenient inspection tool is…
Quality Digest
(Kawasaki Robotics: Wixom, MI) -- Kawasaki Robotics has launched a line of intelligent cobots, showcasing its AI-enabled R and BX series robots for welding as well as multi-SKU palletizing and depalletizing.
Powered with partner NEURA Robotics’ robotic assistant platform, the CL Series combines…
James Chan
Preventive maintenance (PM) is an approach to asset and facilities management that relies heavily on planning, coordination, and collaboration. These features are essential to performing preventive maintenance activities such as routine inspections, preemptive equipment maintenance, and parts…
Quality Digest
(ZEISS: Dresden, Germany) – May 7, 2024, saw the opening of new premises for ZEISS Innovation Hub Dresden, providing additional space for innovation projects and the opportunity for further growth.
The team is moving from the Else Kröner Fresenius Center (EKFZ) for Digital Health on the campus of…
Quality Digest
(Control Concepts: Chanhassen, MN) -- Control Concepts announces the AirSweep MAX, a globally patented pneumatic flow aid system that eliminates bridging, rat-holing, and buildup in bulk-material handling equipment in industries such as food, pharmaceutical, mining, and even in current recycling…
Luk Van Wassenhove, Akhil Bhardwaj, Henk Akkermans
Disasters can act as brutal audits of organizations to which even venerable institutions like Boeing are subject. In the wake of two fatal crashes, as well as a midflight door blowout, Boeing has shaken up its C-suite and pledged to prioritize safety over profit.
Will these measures solve its…
Kristen Goodell
Women make up nearly half of the working population in the United States. But they are underrepresented in the manufacturing industry. According to Women in the Workplace, women constitute approximately one-third of the manufacturing workforce and only 24% of manufacturing C-suite positions.…
Quality Digest
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- On April 9, a trailer with the words “Born by Fire” emblazoned on the back was pulled down MIT’s North Corridor (a.k.a. the Outfinite). Students, clad in orange construction vests, maneuvered their futuristic creation out of the trailer, drawing a surge of curious bystanders…
Quality Digest
(Detection Technology: Espoo, Finland) -- Detection Technology, a global leader in X-ray detector solutions, announces the global availability of a comprehensive range of TFT (thin-film transistor) flat panel detectors. The portfolio includes IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) and a-Si (amorphous…
Quality Digest
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- It’s easy to learn the metric system with the SI Units Card Deck (NIST SP 1297), an interactive educational activity that helps learners build their skills using the major elements of the International System of Units (SI).
The card deck consists of nine sets of cards,…
Quality Digest
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Researchers simulated a key quantum state at one of the largest scales reported, with support from the Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The team’s techniques could help develop quantum simulation…
Mike Figliuolo
As leaders, we like being decisive and making quick decisions. We know our businesses well and are willing to act. Doing so without true contrarian input can be dangerous, though.
You can make better decisions simply by identifying and relying on your own personal Mr. Spock. Yes, I’ve been…
Q.Big 3D
Additive manufacturing of oversized plastic components offers enormous advantages for mold-free small- and medium-size production runs. The key to this is Q.BIG 3D’s VFGF (variable fused granulate fabrication) process.
Reiser Simulation and Training, in Berg near Starnberg, Germany, commissioned…
James Chan
Preventive maintenance (PM) is a proactive maintenance strategy built on calendar-based maintenance tasks, regular inspection, and preemptive repair of physical assets. Physical assets may refer to equipment, production machinery, and operational facilities. Preventive maintenance tasks are…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded cooperative agreements totaling nearly $3.6 million aimed at building the workforce needed to safeguard enterprises from cybersecurity risks. The grants of roughly $200,…
Katie Gilbert
Researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business have pushed past the limitations of A/B testing into another area of experimentation focused on “multi-armed bandits.” Mohsen Bayati, a professor of operations, information, and technology who has been exploring these problems for the past 15…
Anthony Vianna
Over the past decade, technological improvements have seen 3D laser scanning become an increasingly important alternative to tactile measurement in an expanding range of measurement applications.
The success of laser scanning owes as much to under-the-hood technologies that improve the usability…
