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Steven Brown
One of the unexpected rewards of working at NIST has been the opportunity to see other disciplines through the NIST prism of measurement science and standards. By working with NASA scientists, astronomers, oceanographers and geologists, I’ve had the opportunity to witness the lives of scientists in…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
Many industries are embracing apprentice and trade programs in efforts to create a strong and reliable workforce for the future—and the manufacturing field is no exception. The BASF apprenticeship program began as a way for young professionals to find success through practical on-the-job training.…
Emily Newton
Staying on top of packing quality-control measures can have positive ramifications for companies. For starters, products are more likely to arrive undamaged if they're in appropriately robust boxes. There’s also a safety element involved. Suppose a fragile item shatters in transit due to improper…
(LK Metrology: Castle Donington, UK )-- LK Metrology, the global designer and manufacturer of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs), metrology software, and associated CMM accessory products, will be exhibiting a variety of new products at McCormick Place in Chicago for the 2022 IMTS Show in…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Commercial metering systems are ubiquitous in the commercial marketplace (to dispense liquified products, from gas and water to food products and agricultural chemicals). Customers and businesses alike rely on these meters to monitor and deliver their products…
jeffdewar
This is the first installment of a five-part series.
In May, Quality Digest editor in chief Dirk Dusharme and I attended ASQ’s 2022 World Conference on Quality and Improvement (WCQI) in Anaheim, California. It was the first in-person conference since Covid hit the world, and attendance was just…
Kath Lockett
‘Firefighters are heroes.” We hear it all the time, from children, the media, and young people looking for a rewarding career. It’s probably something you’ve said or thought yourself at one time or another. These brave men and women put their own safety on the line every day to protect their…
(AIM3D: Rostock, Germany) -- The composite extrusion modeling 3D process shows great potential to be cost-effective compared to alternative 3D printing processes. In cooperation with the University of Rostock, the startup company AIM3D has conducted a series of tests with PA6GF30 (BASF Ultramid…
(E-con Systems: San Jose, CA, and Chennai, India) -- E-con Systems, a leading embedded OEM camera company and an NVIDIA Elite Partner, has launched the e-CAM82_CUOAGX—a 4K, ultralow-light camera powered by the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-a-module and based on the Sony STARVIS IMX485 sensor.…
Aarin B. Clemons, Lindsey Brickle
Many manufacturers have struggled for years to hire qualified workers. The outlook is for more of the same. With an aging workforce, emerging new technologies requiring more skilled talent, and the continuing decline of trades education in high schools and community colleges, an estimated 2.1…
Becky Ham
In February 2020, MIT professor David Simchi-Levi predicted the future. In an article in Harvard Business Review, he and his colleague Pierre Haren warned that the new coronavirus outbreak would throttle supply chains and shutter tens of thousands of businesses across North America and Europe by…
George Siedel
There is no shortage of books critical of business schools. The titles leave little doubt about how much disdain the authors have for the schools meant to prepare future leaders in business. Consider books like Shut Down the Business School: What’s Wrong with Management Education (Pluto Press, 2018…
(GaiaLens: London) -- GaiaLens, the AI-driven environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) analytics platform that takes a purely quantitative approach to ESG scoring, has gone live with new versions of its three main dashboards offering Portfolio Level analysis, Stock Level analysis, and…
(MicroRidge: Sunriver, OR) -- At IMTS 2022, MicroRidge will feature MobileCollect wireless. See this popular measurement collection system in action, learn why customers say, “it just works,” and request that MicroRidge send you a MobileCollect Demo Kit to try at no charge at your location.
Why…
Quality Digest
One question led the founders of Nemo’s Garden, a subsea farming platform, to embark on its mission to take agriculture beneath the waves and bring better harvests to market: “Seventy percent of the planet is covered by water. Why don't we try to use part of the ocean to make more food, in a better…
Otto de Graaf
Despite the urgency of the climate crisis, and smart tech that enables the transition toward the factory of the future, for many manufacturers sustainability still feels like an afterthought rather than a priority. Certainly, sustainability may require big changes in strategy, processes, technology…
Gleb Tsipursky
The pandemic has made organizations aware of the need for a new C-suite leader, the CHO, or chief health officer. This has been driven by recognizing the importance of employee health for engagement, productivity, and risk management, along with lowering healthcare insurance costs. At the same time…
Ann Brady
Safer food, better health: This was the theme of World Food Safety Day (June 7, 2022), and it’s obvious, is it not, that access to safe food is vital for life and health? The challenge in today’s world is how to achieve this. Global food systems, already under pressure before the pandemic, are now…
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs, a world leader in measurement, inspection, and test technologies, has announced a noncontact measuring system for performing dimensional verification of hairpins used in stator windings.
Through optical inspection using three proprietary high-resolution…
(Titan Tool Supply Inc: Buffalo, NY)--Titan Tool Supply Inc., a worldwide supplier of industrial-grade optical instrumentation and precision micro finishing tools, announced the global market introduction of its TVM Series, a family of accurate, cost-effective, handheld industrial videoscopes.…
(Exact Metrology: Cincinnati) -- Exact Metrology, a division of In-Place Machining Co. and a comprehensive 3D metrology service provider and hardware sales company, will exhibit at the Coordinate Metrology Society Conference (CMSC) along with their sister division, OASIS Alignment Services.
Held…
Jorge Gonzalez Henrichsen
In April 2022, China's manufacturing output fell to its lowest level in two years, according to official data. The figures were the latest sign of economic pain as Beijing maintains its uncompromising zero-Covid response.
Dozens of cities, including Shenzhen and Shanghai, have been partially or…
engineering.com
Unlike a biological or identical twin, a digital twin does not have a universally accepted definition. In application, a digital twin will mean different things to different industries. On an assembly line, a digital twin of a robot may look identical to the physical robot, especially if it is…
(Radiant Vision Systems: Redmond, WA) -- Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of automated visual inspection solutions for illuminated components, announced that it will give a presentation at the 2022 Vision Spectra Conference—a free virtual conference gathering leaders in machine vision to…
(Datanomix: Nashua, NH) – Datanomix has announced a major new capability, Automated Downtime Insights, to further its mission to deliver the next generation of production monitoring and expand its lead as the industry’s only hands-free production monitoring platform.
The Datanomix platform is…
