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Adam Felts
(MIT: Cambridge, MA)--A pop-up hearing aid exposition called HearWeAre... a travel agency that matches older and younger travelers for group adventures... an app that guides outgoing hospital patients through every step of the discharge process.
These are a few of the projects presented by…
Quality Digest
(Creaform: Lévis, QC) -- Creaform, a business unit of AMETEK and a worldwide leader in portable 3D measurement solutions and engineering services, is launching two scanners with great price-performance ratios as part of its HandySCAN 3DTM SILVER Series solution suite. The new HandySCAN 307 Elite …
(Qualio: San Francisco) -- Qualio, a trusted cloud quality management system for the entire life sciences ecosystem, announced significant growth during the first half of 2022, including expanded business and technology integration capabilities, and an enhanced consulting partner program.
“As the…
(NIST: Boulder, CO) -- In an emergency, first responders need to track assets, personnel, and other vital information in an unfolding situation. A new NIST prize challenge encourages developers to improve these incident command dashboards.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of…
Gleb Tsipursky
Elon Musk recently demanded that all Tesla staff return to the office full-time, according to an email sent to executive staff and leaked on social media. Musk said those who don’t want to come to office should “pretend to work somewhere else,” insinuating that those who work from home aren’t…
Rebecca Beyer
There is Alexa sitting on the kitchen counter waiting for your next query. But before she tells you how to make a perfect avocado salad, would you like to know something about the person who invented her?
As the use of automated assistants and other AI agents becomes more pervasive, how humans…
Quality Digest
(Dispense Works: McHenry, IL) -- The Ring Dex 2 evolved from Dispense Work’s standard line of filling and capping equipment. The system features machine-tool quality construction combined with the latest technologies and new designs to help customers streamline their production.
Each workstation…
greenlight.guru
(Greenlight Guru: Indianapolis, IN)--Greenlight Guru, pioneer of the Medtech Lifecycle Excellence Platform, has acquired SMART-TRIAL, maker of the first and only electronic data capture (EDC) platform designed for medical devices and diagnostics. SMART-TRIAL offers a comprehensive data collection…
(L.S. Starrett Co.: Athol, MA) -- L.S. Starrett Co., a leading global manufacturer of precision measuring tools and gauges, metrology systems and more, will be demonstrating the latest in quality control inspection technology at International Manufacturing Technology Show booth 135044 in the…
(Newswire: Englewood, CO) -- Science Interactive earns the Quality Matters (QM) Certification for their Environmental Science curriculum following a detailed review process. The QM certification mark is the internationally recognized symbol of online and blended course design quality.
“Developed…
William A. Levinson
Quality-related data collection is useful, but statistics can also deliver misleading and even dysfunctional results when incomplete. This is often the case when information is collected only from surviving people or products, extremely satisfied or dissatisfied customers, or propagators of bad…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Matt Lakin
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, Tennessee) -- A study led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers promises to help sharpen accuracy for climate-change models and enable more reliable predictions of extreme weather.
The team’s results outline an invertible neural network—a type of artificial intelligence…
(RPI: Bath, UK) -- RPI, a leading provider of rotary measurement and angular positioning devices, has expanded its metrology product range with the launch of OctoScan, which can improve productivity by up to 40 percent.
OctoScan is an accurate rotary axis that enhances the measurement capability…
Faustino Gomez, Sepp Hochreiter
With ongoing global shortages of all kinds of goods, from cars to lumber to cooking oil, both consumers and companies are struggling. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with renewed Covid outbreaks in China, are two things that are likely to make things worse before they get better.
One way to…
Nathan Parde
For years, organizations have taken a defensive “castle-and-moat” approach to cybersecurity, seeking to secure the perimeters of their networks to block out any malicious actors. Individuals with the right credentials were assumed to be trustworthy and allowed access to a network’s systems and data…
(Soprana Personnel International: Vilnius, Lithuania) -- Seventy-six percent of global employees want to continue working from home, which could be challenging for team managers and leaders. It’s not just a matter of using more technologies or looking for a better application for online meetings,…
(Digi International: Hopkins, MN) -- Digi International, a leading global provider of internet of things (IoT) connectivity products and services, has unveiled Digi IX30, an industrial-hardened cellular router solution for harsh environments. Digi IX30 provides edge intelligence in a rugged,…
Samuel Lesko
The manufacturing and production industries have rapidly evolved during the past 10 years, faced with significant challenges both in finding resources to run production and in manufacturing under tighter tolerances for surface texture and 3D feature dimensions.
The strict tolerances required in…
Quality Digest
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs, a leader in measurement, inspection, and test technologies, has announced its new automatic machine for leak testing of sealed batteries in high production environments. This patent pending system is based on electrolyte tracing, which makes it possible to…
Anil More
Air gauge measuring devices have given highly reliable and precise measurements since the 1940s. As the name suggests, an air plug or air ring gauge is a gauging probe that uses metered air under controlled pressure to sense the back pressure generated as it impinges on the surface of the part…
Amy Kim
As companies continue to adjust to the wave of employees returning to the office, one thing is certain: The pre-pandemic working world is no more. Although remote employee productivity has been proven in terms of output—albeit subjective and loosely defined—many companies are gradually increasing…
(L.S. Starrett Co.: Athol, MA) -- L.S. Starrett Co., a leading global manufacturer of precision measuring tools and gages, metrology systems, and more, has introduced a custom designed and manufactured Chordal Height Gage (a.k.a. DO Gage) to be used for measuring the opening heights of turbine…
(Augury: New York and Tel Aviv) -- Augury, the leading provider of IoT and industrial AI solutions that improve health and reliability of machines for manufacturing and industry, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Seebo, a leader in AI-based process intelligence. The deal is…
Angus Robertson
It turns out that the triple threat of being locked away in quarantine, forbidden from visiting clients in person, and being under pressure to continue to deliver sales and profits, has had a seismic impact on digital transformation. The COVID-19-led paradigm shift in how customers work and buy has…
(Configit: Copenhagen) -- Configit, a global leader in configuration lifecycle management (CLM), has announced new breakthrough capabilities in its market-leading solution Configit Ace, which takes CLM to the next level by introducing industry-first, system-level configuration.
Organizations need…
