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(Omnex: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Omnex has announced its latest webinar, “ASPICE 4.0 Seen From a Hardware View.”
Date and time: April 16, 2024, 8:30 a.m. EasternSpeaker: Micael Edvardsson
The Automotive SPICE PAM and PRM v4.0 was released Nov. 29, 2023. One notable change was that new process groups were…
Henry A. Zumbrun
Calibration, a critical aspect of maintaining equipment precision, involves more than routine checks. It’s a complex decision-making process in which quality, lead time, and price are weighed. The belief that you must compromise on one to excel in the others is a common misconception in the…
Saurabh Joshi Shripad
Risk assessment and continual process verification (CPV) are fundamental regulatory requirements for pharmaceutical companies to ensure drug safety, efficacy, and quality. While risk assessment involves analyzing, mitigating, communicating, and monitoring risks that could ultimately affect patients…
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(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, announced the results of the annual “State of Smart Manufacturing Report,” a global study surveying more than 1,500 manufacturers across 17 of the…
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(Sandvik Coromant: Mebane, NC) -- Cutting tool specialist Sandvik Coromant has expanded its CoroMill Plura solid end mill family with a new concept: CoroMill Plura ball nose, optimized for semifinishing to finishing profiling operations in ISO S applications.
“CoroMill Plura ball nose for ISO S is…
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(Full Scale Media: New York) -- Kara Branch, 34, is an award-winning chemical engineer and founder of Black Girls Do Engineer, a nonprofit dedicated to getting more Black and brown girls into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) through the power of access, representation, hands…
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(Laser Components: Olching, Germany) -- Laser Components presents the Fiber Inspection Probe (FIP), a fully automated inspection tool from Tempo Communications that provides fast and reliable analysis of fiber-optic connectors and associated bulkheads.
This tool assists with verification of…
Mike Figliuolo
Pay. It’s the topic we love to avoid. We don’t discuss it with friends or family. It’s verboten at cocktail parties. Heck, we discuss cancer, religion, and abortion at dinner parties more easily than we talk about our paychecks. We don’t even like to discuss compensation with the person whose pay…
Lee Simmons
Investors and business leaders are always on the lookout for the next big thing, the paradigm shift that will upend industries and change the world. The hope is to get in early and ride the wave—or at least avoid getting flattened by it. But where should they be looking?
“There’s a huge literature…
Lawrence Bernard
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have determined how to avoid costly and potentially irreparable damage to large metallic parts fabricated through additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, caused by residual stress in the material.…
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(Starrett: Athol, MA) -- The L.S. Starrett Co., a global manufacturer of metrology systems, precision measuring tools, and gauges, has introduced the latest video system in its KMR Series—the KMR-MX 200 Manual Video System.
The new system offers a unique platform, filling the gap for companies…
Manfred Kets de Vries
Throughout history, leaders have been seduced by success, leading them down a path of hubris. This ancient Greek term, literally translating to “excess,” describes a state of exaggerated self-belief and arrogance.
An extreme example is Xerxes, king of the Persian Empire. Feeling invincible from…
Ferdinando Fioretto
Artificial intelligence’s capacity to process and analyze vast amounts of data has revolutionized decision-making processes, making operations in healthcare, finance, criminal justice, and other sectors of society more efficient and often more effective.
However, with this transformative power…
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(QualiSense: Tel Aviv, Israel) -- The main benefit of deploying artificial intelligence (AI) for quality inspection is significant improvement in defect detection. However, the data generated and stored by inspection systems can potentially deliver additional benefits, including major improvements…
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(ABB: Zurich) -- ABB has launched the ABB Ability Symphony Plus SDe Series, a portfolio of hardware products created to modernize existing process-control system installations with minimal risk and disruption to plant operations. The new series enables plant operators in industries such as power,…
Douglas C. Fair, Scott A. Hindle
In less than two months we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the invention of the control chart, a tool most often associated with statistical process control (SPC). Considering SPC from our modern perspective made us ask, “Is SPC still relevant?”
It’s a question asked within the purview of…
Jones Loflin
This year I have committed to being a more curious gardener: to be willing to grow some things I haven’t grown before and see what happens. I decided to try growing one of my favorite fruits—papaya! I’ve heard that if I do certain things, give it the right soil conditions, and protect it from the…
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(ORBIS Corp.: Oconomowoc, WI) -- ORBIS Corp., an international leader in reusable packaging, adds a new product to its suite of storage-efficient and rackable plastic pallets. The Odyssey 3-runner pallet enhances dimensional consistency, transportation, and hygienics with built-in reinforcement…
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(Dürr Systems Inc.: Southfield, MI) --The new EcoSupply P Core is a modular paint supply system based on pigging technology. This paint supply method has already proved beneficial in the automotive painting world, but Dürr has gone one step further and enhanced it for use in other industries for…
Mark Hembree
Everyone knows customer service is increasingly automated and impersonal—that’s a “dog bites man” story. It’s not news because it happens all the time. When a man bites a dog, that’s news.
But what if you’re bitten by a chatbot or AI? Aside from newsworthiness, is the owner responsible? Where does…
Stephanie Ojeda
Companies today implementing automated compliance management systems are motivated by a wide variety of factors.
For many, it’s about reducing manual labor hours required to execute quality processes—and achieving greater efficiency and effectiveness in their operations. For others, the priority…
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(Liberty Robotics: Dexter, MI) -- Liberty Robotics, a leading supplier of 3D volumetric vision guidance systems for robot applications, has launched its flagship suite of robotic palletizing and depalletizing solutions, VPick and VPack, which use state-of-the-art AI vision systems to enhance…
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(AMT: Orion, MI) – Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), a North American leader in automation engineering that specializes in advanced material handling, system integration, and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for warehousing and logistics, has launched the ROBiN Robotic Induction System, a…
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(HEIDENHAIN: Schaumburg, IL) -- HEIDENHAIN, a market leader in motion-control technology, has acquired a new Silicon Valley headquarters in Fremont, California. The 12,000 sq ft manufacturing innovation hub will house office space for HEIDENHAIN’s regional sales and support staff as well as a 6,000…
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(Teledyne: Waterloo, ON) -- Teledyne DALSA has announced its Xtium 2-XGV PX8, a GigE Vision-compatible image acquisition board that features a real-time depacketization engine to convert GigE Vision image packets into ready-to-use images.
It also has a hardware-assisted packet resend logic that…
