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I wrote previously1 that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics are often dysfunctional because they prioritize the wrong things and thus deliver the wrong results.
The recent failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) despite SVB Financial Group’s “medium” (at the time) ESG risk rating…
Recently, ESG has become a main topic of shareholders, boards, and C-suites. Billions in capital have been deployed through Impact or ESG-rated funds. Ninety percent of S&P 500 companies now have ESG strategies, and ESG mentions grew more than 300 percent in investor briefings. Major indices…
(AMETEK MOCON: Brooklyn Park, MN) -- AMETEK MOCON’S new mid-capacity gas mixer, the Dansensor MAP Mix Focus, uses an electronic mixing principle to mix food-grade MAP gases accurately and reliably.
“By adding this new midrange electronic gas mixer to our mixer portfolio, we can now provide…
Quality and sustainability are two critical aspects of modern business operations that are closely intertwined. While quality refers to the level of excellence or standard achieved in a product or service, sustainability relates to the ability to maintain or improve that quality over time while…
(MasterMover: Charlotte, NC) -- MasterMover, the world’s leading manufacturer of electric tug and tow solutions, announces a new partnership with vehicle automation leader BlueBotics to provide best-in-class ANT navigation technologies for MasterMover’s range of automated guided vehicles (AGVs).…
I have a bold opinion: The corrective and preventive action (CAPA) process is the second-most important component of your quality management system (QMS). (If you want to know what I think is No. 1, shoot me an email.) As you build medical devices, a well-defined CAPA program provides a framework…
(Siemens: Munich) -- Siemens has launched a new Intralogistics vertical to bring material-handling thought leadership, hardware automation, software, and service solutions to its U.S. customers.
The company leverages its broad technology to address digital transformation, cybersecurity, safety,…
A recent study at the University of Birmingham, which surveyed 597 managers, has shed light on how managers’ attitudes toward the hybrid work model have changed as a result of the pandemic. Surprisingly, the findings reveal an increasingly positive outlook on the benefits of remote and flexible…
People often use the terms maintenance and reliability interchangeably. However, they are two separate concepts. Although there is some overlap, their scope and focus are quite different.
Understanding those differences, as well as how each concept affects the other, is a necessary step for…
(SymphonyAI Industrial, Woburn, MA) -- SymphonyAI Industrial, a SymphonyAI division, announced that European industrial and medical gases company Nippon Gases has signed a long-term agreement to extend its use of APM 360 to improve asset performance supporting plant operations and output across its…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The feedstock used to additively manufacture, or 3D-print, metal parts is often a fine powder of metallic particles. The traits of these powders play a key role in determining the quality of printed parts, but many questions stand about how to optimize them.
What powder…
“The best is the enemy of good,” wrote French historian and philosopher Voltaire. Today that quote seems more appropriate than ever. A longitudinal meta-analysis study from 1989 to 2016 looking at data from more than 41,000 students across the U.S., U.K., and Canada revealed that perfectionism has…
There’s a certain irony in the recent attention paid to the application of robots on the shop floor. On a couple occasions in the past year, I’ve heard manufacturing colleagues talk about the benefits of deploying robots to handle material conveyance. “Better,” they say, “to redeploy humans to…
MathWorks, creators of MATLAB and Simulink, and the embedded software safety and security company Green Hills Software have announced new features in Simulink that help engineers produce safety-related applications for Infineon’s AURIX TC4x family of automotive microcontrollers. Specifically,…
(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- In quality assurance, it’s often necessary to reliably detect deviations from the norm. Industrial cameras have a key role in this, capturing images of products and analyzing them for defects. If the error cases aren’t known in advance or are too diverse, however, rule-…
(Schreiner PrinTrust: Shanghai) – Schreiner PrinTrust, a developer of customized radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions and security labels for system and service providers with a focus on identification and authentication, is supplying RFID-enabled films for seventhings, a German software…
(Critical Manufacturing: Maia, Portugal) -- At Hannover Messe, Critical Manufacturing will be highlighting how its manufacturing execution system (MES) empowers manufacturers with advanced capabilities to drive innovation, increase connectivity, and promote digital transformation with out-of-the-…
Producing high-quality products is crucial for any business. But designing quality into the product from the start is the only significant way a business can improve its product margins. When you use detection methods and find a nonconformance, you’ve already invested in that nonconforming product…
Continuing our thinking about ways for data leaders to save money during a recession, this article drills into saving on your data usage. Following my last post reminiscing on the lessons I learned during past recessions, the early environmentalist slogan “reduce, reuse, recycle” has stayed in my…
(Digital Twin Consortium: Boston) -- The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) has announced the publication of a white paper, “Decarbonizing the Built World: A Call to Action.” It outlines how building owners and their community of stakeholders can reduce carbon emissions using performance-based digital…
(Desktop Metal: Burlington, MA) -- Desktop Metal has announced three new metals for use in its binder jet 3D printers, partnering with three separate organizations to test and verify the results.
Copper alloy C18150 was developed and provided by Sandvik Osprey, a unit of Sandvik Additive…
As the foundations of modern science were being laid, the need for a model for the uncertainty in a measurement became apparent. Here we look at the development of the theory of measurement error and discover its consequences.
The problem may be expressed as follows: Repeated measurements of one…
As of 2023, more than 27,000 medical device QMS certificates have been issued worldwide, providing confidence in medical devices. From cardiac stents to simple dental tools used to correct teeth, the healthcare systems of the world have come to rely on ISO 13485 to provide critical support to world…
(Omnex: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Omnex has announced its latest webinars, “Net zero and carbon neutrality standards are now for your environmental management systems” and “Best practices in systems engineering for Automotive SPICE.”
Webinar title: “Net zero and carbon neutrality standards are now for…
(Teledyne e2v: Grenoble, France) -- Teledyne e2v, a part of Teledyne Technologies, has released Optimom 1.5M, the latest member of its Optimom family, a new range of turnkey optical modules that can be instantly integrated into vision systems.
Optimom 1.5M is a complete board-level vision…
