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(Creaform: Lévis, QC) -- Creaform, a business unit of AMETEK, Inc. and a leader in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, announced the release of its new VXscan-R software module for its new VXelements 10 platform. This latest version now offers an advanced compatibility with…
Del Williams
The use of membrane technology as a processing and separation method in the food industry is gaining wide application for demineralization, desalination, stabilization, separation, deacidification, purification, and reducing microbial load.
Perhaps the most obvious application for membrane…
Ruth Castel-Branco, Hannah Dawson
Narrative frames are fundamental to unifying ideologies. They frame what is possible and impossible, which ideas can be accepted, and which must be rejected. In her book, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics (Zed Books, 2018), storyteller and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola examines the framing…
Susan Robertson
A debate you frequently hear in business circles is whether working online or in-person is more creative. The short answer? Both. Or neither. It’s solely dependent on how the meeting is structured and managed.
When it comes to creativity, a recent study found that online interactions result in…
(AMETEK: Lévis, QC)--Creaform, a business unit of AMETEK and leader in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, announced on the occasion of its 20th anniversary the launch of VXelements 10—now boasting a new cloud licensing system, new 3D mesh and entity edition functionalities…
Angie Basiouny
Walter Orthmann has worked for the same textile manufacturer in Brazil for more than 84 years, setting the Guinness World Record last month for longest career at a single company.
It’s a remarkable stretch, considering American workers now spend a median of 4.1 years with their employers,…
Jamie Steiner
Ultra-low temperature freezers became popular due to the storage of Covid-19 vaccines, but they have been important components of laboratories for many years. There’s a lot, however, to think about—quality, productivity, maintenance, different types of technology, warranties, etc. And if you end up…
(New Scale Robotics: Victor, NY) -- New Scale Robotics will highlight its Q-Span Automated Gauging System at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS 2022) Sept. 12–17 in Chicago. Continuous live demonstrations in the booth will show this flexible robotic workstation measuring parts…
(MSI-Viking Gage: Duncan, SC) -- MSI-Viking Gage announced its recent acquisition of Inspec of Canton, Michigan. With the completion of this transaction, Inspec is now a wholly owned subsidiary of MSI Viking.
MSI Viking’s acquisition of Inspec advances its growing service and sales capabilities in…
Donald J. Wheeler
Walter Shewhart made a distinction between common causes and assignable causes based on the effects they have upon the process outcomes. While Shewhart’s distinction predated the arrival of chaos theory by 40 years, chaos theory provides a way to understand what Shewhart was talking about.…
Tristan Mobbs
Let’s consider how to build a data analytics community. Many organizations want to establish communities of practice or other structures with a similar aim, fostering best practice and collaboration, often with analysts working in different parts of a corporation.
A data analytics community can…
(ETQ: Burlington, MA) -- ETQ, part of Hexagon, has launched a new release of its award-winning, cloud-native QMS, Reliance NXG, allowing teams to create and edit Google Docs natively in Reliance. The company also launched its newest application, Quality Events, giving quality users the broadest set…
Hayder Radha
It’s hard to miss the flashing lights of fire engines, ambulances, and police cars ahead of you when you’re driving down the road. But in at least 11 cases from January 2018 to July 2021, Tesla’s Autopilot advanced driver-assistance system did just that. This led to 11 accidents in which Teslas…
Prashant Yadav
During the past two and a half years, we’ve seen unparalleled innovation and private-public collaboration in the global fight against Covid-19. The rapid development and rollout of new vaccines, diagnostic tests, and therapeutics have saved millions of lives.
However, these developments haven’t…
Quality Digest
(Continuous Composites: Coeur d’Alene, ID)-- Continuous Composites, a pioneer of advanced composite 3D printing technology, has been chosen by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to additively manufacture low Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) open isogrid composite…
Quality Digest
(Transatel: Paris) -- Global cellular connectivity service provider Transatel, a subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT Group), announced the deployment on NTT’s Docomo network of its new worldwide 5G IoT solution for the industrial, IT and automotive sectors in Japan. Already…
(NIMS: Fairfax, VA) -- The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) has developed a new methodology to learn, retain, and transfer knowledge for Geometric Tolerancing & Dimensioning (GD&T) across an organization. NIMS offers the training in a day and a half workshop.…
Jonathan Griffin
Since the 1940s, engineers have used a common design language—a set of definitions, symbols, and practices—to draft engineering drawings that can serve as clear manufacturing blueprints or inspection checklists.
Although this system still works well for many traditional manufacturing methods, it…
Anisur Rahman, Arif Arifuzzaman, Edgar Lara-Curzio, Tomonori Saito, Sungjin Kim
Researchers at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ONRL) have developed an upcycling approach that adds value to discarded plastics for reuse in additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. The readily adoptable, scalable method introduces a closed-loop strategy that could globally…
David Stevens
The United States has more than 6,000 hospitals, and each one has thousands, if not tens of thousands, of clinical assets, such as imaging machines, ventilators, and IV pumps. Managing this equipment becomes a mighty task when hospital staff must handle the monitoring, repair, and maintenance of…
(PMMI: Chicago, IL)--PACK Challenge, a brand-new packaging competition, will bring six high school teams together for a head-to-head machine-building challenge at PACK EXPO International (Oct. 23-26, McCormick Place, Chicago), according to show producer, PMMI, The Association for Packaging and…
Quality Digest
(Bantam Tools: Peekskill, NY) -- Desktop CNC manufacturer Bantam Tools has launched its “Turnkey Solutions,” a CNC service that gives designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs a proven process to turn designs into physical parts. Bantam Tools engineers will develop a process for machining parts using…
(Waygate Technologies: Huerth, Germany) -- Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and the world’s leading provider of non-destructive testing (NDT) solutions for industrial inspection, will present its latest innovations in ultrasonic testing (UT) at the 2022 Wire & Tube shows. The…
(Business Wire: Campbell, CA) --Velo3D, Inc., a leading metal additive manufacturing technology company for mission-critical parts, has announced a new addition to its Sapphire family of printers with the Sapphire XC 1MZ. The new printer allows customers to print parts one meter in height—with a…
Richard Harpster
On Dec. 7, 2021, Ford Motor Co. updated its IATF 16949—“Customer specific requirements” (CSR), which require the use of reverse FMEAs (RFMEA) on new equipment (“tooling”). The first sentence of the reverse FMEA requirement reads: “Organizations are required to have a process in place that ensures…
