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Peter Beaucage
Every time you squeeze toothpaste onto your toothbrush, spray perfume on your skin, or swallow a pill, you’re using the result of a carefully crafted recipe made in a lab. These are called formulations.
Formulations aren’t just simple mixtures—they’re complex arrangements of ingredients designed…
Michael Sharp
Understanding the inner workings of your industrial artificial intelligence (IAI) system is crucial if you want it to add measurable value to your manufacturing operations. Here, we’ll dig into one important aspect of every AI: the inputs, aka your data. Including the right type and the right…
Adam Grant, Michael Platt, Jonah Berger, Jerry Wind
Nano Tools for Leaders—a collaboration between Wharton Executive Education and Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management—are fast, effective tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes, with the potential to significantly impact your success and the engagement and…
NIST
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are 1,000 times larger than normal. By monitoring how these giant “Rydberg” atoms interact with heat in their environment, researchers can…
Adam Zewe
With a more efficient method for artificial pollination, farmers in the future could grow fruits and vegetables inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful effects on the environment.
To help make this idea a reality, MIT researchers are developing…
S. Heather Duncan
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) uses a software algorithm that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developed to check for flaws in additively manufactured components. This is part of the process of identifying promising metals and alloys for 3D printing the next generation of nuclear reactors. …
Sabine Terrasi
It creates a warm and inviting atmosphere. Its natural grain and color tones have a lively effect and add character to a room. We are talking about classic wood flooring—usually laminate, and optionally with a click system for easy installation.
Scheucher Holzindustrie GmbH, from Mettersdorf,…
Christine Schaefer
In a recent blog, I provided many reasons to apply to be a 2025 Baldrige examiner. The benefits of serving in this volunteer role were conveyed by three highly experienced Baldrige examiners with career expertise from the business, K-12 education, and healthcare sectors. Each served as an…
Anne Trafton
For many industrial processes, the typical way to separate gases, liquids, or ions is with heat, using slight differences in boiling points to purify mixtures. These thermal processes account for roughly 10% of the energy use in the United States.
MIT chemical engineer Zachary Smith wants to…
Stephanie Ojeda
In April 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first artificial intelligence-powered diagnostic system, a software program used to detect diabetes-related vision loss.
Since then, the industry has seen explosive growth of AI in medical device manufacturing, which is…
Ilana J. Sprongl
Back in 2023, only 15% of businesses had adopted AI-augmented software testing tools. By 2027, that number is expected to leap to 80%. The reason behind this rapid adoption is clear. The complexity of modern software and products is skyrocketing, and with it, the risks associated with quality…
Harish Jose
In this article, I’m exploring complexity through the lens of George Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form (Cognizer Co., 1994). This philosophical and mathematical treatise explores the foundations of logic and mathematics via a unique symbolic system. Spencer-Brown introduces a primary algebra based on a…
Laurie Locascio
So much has changed since I walked onto the Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) almost three years ago to begin my term as its director and U.S. Commerce Undersecretary for Standards and Technology.
We were all still feeling the impacts of…
Jennifer Chu
The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So chip manufacturers are looking to build up, rather than out.
Instead of squeezing ever-smaller transistors onto a single surface, the industry is aiming to stack…
Nick Haase
In the evolving landscape of industrial digital transformation, the unified namespace (UNS) has emerged as a transformative approach to enterprise data management. At its core, UNS provides a single source of truth that eliminates barriers between disparate systems and data sources, enabling any…
Peter Zemsky, Ricky Wong
Gemini, O1, Grok, Claude, Llama, Yi, and Mistral: The number of large language models (LLMs) seems to have grown exponentially since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness in late 2022. It’s estimated that $154 billion was spent on AI by businesses in 2023, while the most recent …
AMETEK
From electric vehicles (EVs) to renewable energy storage to consumer electronics, lithium-ion batteries are powering the world around us. Over the next decade, the market for these batteries is expected to grow more than five times from what it is today.
Rugged field testing meets real-time…
Silas Fulsom
In today’s highly competitive global markets, lean manufacturing is no longer something that’s nice to have—it’s a way of life. You can either reduce costs, simplify operations, and improve productivity on a continual basis—or you can lose business to competitors that do.
Lean manufacturing starts…
George Schuetz
The need for long-range height measurements has been around since the principles of layout work became a fundamental requirement in machine shops.
The first step in the manufacturing process is to lay out a piece by transferring a design or pattern to a workpiece. This is performed in almost all…
Nils Gerhardt
Today’s cars are computers on wheels. Many contain more than one connected device, allowing drivers and passengers to stream entertainment, make phone calls, or access safety features. The more sophisticated vehicles out there (Teslas and the like) enable cars to connect to the internet for…
Horacio Falcão
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could outsource to technology the complex, laborious, and often emotionally intense process of negotiating? Until recently, the idea of merging negotiation and AI was only a dream. However, the launch of more sophisticated AI systems has changed how we approach the…
Gleb Tsipursky
Generative AI is revolutionizing industries, from drafting legal contracts to crafting personalized marketing campaigns with unmatched speed and precision. Yet this transformative power comes with challenges: fears of job loss, concerns about algorithmic bias, and the phenomenon of “hallucinations…
Silke von Gemmingen
Our solar system has fascinated mankind for thousands of years. Astronomical research is looking for answers to the big questions of human existence. How big is the universe? How did it come into being? Astronomers all over the world use telescopes to cast their gaze into space.
However, it’s not…
Quality Digest, Ryan Pembroke
Hexagon is frequently at the fore of innovation. Like many in its industry, part of the company’s initiative to succeed is rooted in the constant push to automate tedious processes that take up valuable time, eat up resources and personnel, and delay production and delivery of products. Tools like…
Etienne Nichols
A quality management system (QMS) is at the heart of every successful medtech company. A QMS comprises all the policies, processes, and procedures that ensure the production of safe and effective medical devices—which means that problems with your QMS can quickly become problems with your products…
