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(Morehouse: York, PA) -- Morehouse Instrument Co., a leading force and torque measurement service provider for more than a century, has launched a free online metrology training email series designed to improve calibration and metrology skills.
The Morehouse Metrology Mastery Series offers a…
Quality Digest
(CloudNC: London) -- CloudNC, a manufacturing technology company, has announced that its CAM Assist solution, which uses AI to generate machining strategies for 3 and 3+2 axis CNC machines, is now available for Mastercam users.
The new upgrade is available as an AI add-on for the Mastercam…
Mike Figliuolo
In case you missed it, the apocalypse happened a few weeks ago. The end of days. The reckoning. It was a time to take a step back and reflect on all you’ve accomplished or failed to accomplish in your life. Even though the world was not torn asunder by explosions, the reflection on what life means…
Automated Precision Inc.
In the highly competitive automotive industry, quality control is paramount to ensuring the reliability, safety, and performance of vehicles. Metrology, the science of measurement, plays a crucial role in achieving these high standards at every stage of automotive production and testing. Let’s…
Quality Digest
(Quantic: East Providence, RI) -- Quantic Electronics has announced it will exhibit at the 2024 Defense Innovation Days, hosted by the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA), in Newport, Rhode Island, August 26–28.
Representatives from Quantic and its businesses—Quantic BEI,…
Quality Digest
(Razor Labs: Tel Aviv, Israel) -- Razor Labs, a leader in AI-driven predictive maintenance solutions, has been recognized as a triple category winner at the 2024 Mining Technology Excellence Awards. The company secured accolades in the innovation, safety, and research and development (R&D)…
Gleb Tsipursky
In the brave new world of hybrid work, where the lines between office and home are blurred, employers are navigating uncharted waters. Some have resorted to a draconian approach, implementing surveillance measures to monitor their employees’ productivity. Yet, evidence is mounting that such Big…
Robyn Coward, Brian Brooks
This year, the Medical Device Innovation Consortium held an Excellence in Quality Summit where it was promised that participants would receive a “unique opportunity to learn adoptable cutting-edge practices to maximize the impact of investing in quality across [their] total product life cycle.”…
Quality Digest
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) participated in a summit at the White House last week where representatives of government agencies, industry, and standards development organizations discussed the U.S. Government…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has publicly released a new set of additive manufacturing data that industry and researchers can use to evaluate and improve the quality of 3D-printed components. The breadth of the datasets can significantly…
Quality Digest
(IDS: Stoneham, MA) -- As versatile as the IDS industrial camera families are, sometimes customer requirements are so particular that a customized development would be desirable. However, this often only makes sense for larger quantities.
For this reason, IDS has developed the uEye ACP series: Its…
Quality Digest
(ANCA: Melbourne, Australia; Wixom, MI) -- Renowned for launching industry-first tool and cutter grinding technologies, ANCA continues to innovate with the EPX-SF, guaranteeing productivity, quality, and profitability in edge preparation. The new stream finishing machine debuted at GrindingHub in…
Akhilesh Gulati
Maria took a moment to reflect on how much had changed in just over a year since she first explored ChatGPT with her informal innovation group. Back then it was more of a novelty, a fun challenge to see whether artificial intelligence could answer their mundane questions correctly. Sometimes it…
Mark Graban
In the world of continuous improvement and lean management, clear and respectful communication is crucial.
Let’s take a moment to examine two different approaches to communicating a simple instruction regarding the operation of a centrifuge, as seen in the images below—pictures I took in a…
Quality Digest
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata Inc., a leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a new e-book, pSeven Enterprise Unleashes the Full Potential of Simulation for System Design Optimization. The e-book highlights the challenges industrial…
(Key Technology: Walla Walla, WA) – Key Technology has introduced optical sorters for processed protein products such as frozen chicken nuggets, chicken tenders, fish sticks, and plant-based meat alternatives. Automatically removing product defects and foreign material (FM), Key’s optical sorters,…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
As societal norms change with each passing generation, so do work trends and expectations. Today, employers are seeing a notable shift in the attitudes, values, and goals of the next generation of workers.
At TalentLMS, surveys capture these changes with targeted questions. A recent report found…
Harish Jose
Recently, I wrote about the process capability index and tolerance interval. Here, I’m writing about the relationship between the process capability index and sigma. The sigma number here relates to how many standard deviations the process window can hold.
A +/– 3 sigma contains 99.73% of the…
Quality Digest
(Hexagon: Stockholm) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has launched Digital Factory, a new digitalization solution designed to help manufacturers build highly accurate digital replicas of their factories. It enables manufacturers to optimize their floor plans and quickly pivot…
Mike Figliuolo
I hate the use of the word just in front of anyone’s title, as in, “He’s just an analyst,” or, “She’s just a cafeteria worker,” or, “I’m just an administrative assistant.”
No one is just anything. The word is demeaning and pejorative. We’re all people—we happen to have different responsibilities.…
John Tschohl
Are your employees empowered to make decisions on the spot in favor of the customer? Your single goal should be to have overly happy customers. Too many things go wrong each day. You want your employees to understand they are in customer service, and their No. 1 responsibility is to take care of…
David Chandler
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons—the nucleus of the hydrogen atom—could be key to many important technologies for combating global climate change.
Most proton-…
Quality Digest
(Morehouse: York, PA) -- Maintaining precise cable tension is crucial across various industries, including engineering, construction, aerospace, and manufacturing. Cable tensiometers serve as indispensable instruments for measuring and monitoring this cable tension. However, the calibration of…
Touradj Ebrahimi
For the last 30 years, the JPEG image format has been a staple for the internet’s billions of users. While the technologies used to display images have evolved tremendously during the past few decades, the JPEG format is still used everywhere. This is a great example of what can happen when a new…
Stanislav Shekshnia, Sergey Vorobiev
In the complex, uncertain, and fast-changing world we live in, success and even survival require intensive collaboration among individuals, organizations, and countries. The outcomes of such collaboration can be breathtaking: Consider the growth of Netflix and Amazon, the rebirth of Microsoft and…
