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(Exact Metrology: Cincinnati, OH; and ZEISS: Hebron, KY) -- Exact Metrology, a division of In-Place Machining, a comprehensive 3D metrology service provider, and a hardware sales company, is leasing the ZEISS METROTOM 1 CT scanner. The METROTOM 1 allows users to measure and inspect hidden defects…
(Teledyne FLIR: Richmond, BC, Canada) -- Teledyne FLIR has announced that its all-new Ladybug6 360-degree camera is now in full production.
“We’re excited to announce that our newest Ladybug camera is in production now, and units are shipping immediately,” says Mike Lee, senior product manager at…
Customer loyalty and lifetime value are highly prized in today’s competitive environment. Smart businesses know that a major point of competitive advantage (or failure) can be the type of customer experience they provide.
The need to balance what customers want with what the business needs to…
Managers who want to keep employees from quitting should consider reordering work tasks, according to a new paper co-authored by Wharton management professor Maurice Schweitzer.
In the largest field study of its kind, Schweitzer and his colleagues found that people are far more likely to quit when…
(ZEISS: Oberkochen, Germany) -- Free and open-source software (FOSS) has been the driving force of innovative software development for many years and is largely responsible for the blossoming of modern software ecosystems. The source code at its core is publicly available and can be viewed, further…
(Torrey Pines Scientific: Carlsbad, CA) -- Torrey Pines Scientific announces its Echotherm Model IC20XR compact, Peltier-driven, chilling/heating dry bath. It can freeze, chill, or heat samples from -10°C to 110°C (14°F–230°F) at your workstation, and can be supplied with the broadest variety of…
The quality profession has been evolving since the Industrial Revolution. I’ve lived part of this journey since the 1970s and have experienced its effect. ASQ and other organizations have continually pushed the envelope in creating training and certifications in the skill sets we’ve developed over…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has joined the O-RAN Alliance: a nonprofit organization made up of mobile network operators, vendors, and academic and government institutions working to make radio access network (RAN)…
The business challenges of the past few years—labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, and inflation—have accelerated the long-term trend toward automated packaging operations. All types of manufacturers and distributors, including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, automotive, and e-commerce…
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- Take apart your laptop screen and at its heart you’ll find a plate patterned with pixels of red, green, and blue LEDs, arranged end to end like a meticulous Lite-Brite display. When electrically powered, the LEDs together can produce every shade in the rainbow to generate…
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is growing in popularity as a metric to guide investment decisions. What does ESG have to do with productivity, quality, or stakeholders, aka relevant interested parties? The answer is—with the exception of generally accepted practices for workplace…
When MasterControl hosted the Masters Summit 2022 in Salt Lake City, Quality Digest CEO Jeff Dewar was one of the panelists. That gave him a chance to catch up with Jon Beckstrand, CEO of MasterControl, a company which provides its quality management system to more than 1,000 clients, primarily in…
We spend about one-third of our waking hours at work. That’s often more time than we spend asleep or hanging out with our family and friends. It’s no wonder then that workplaces develop their own languages.
Workplace jargon can help streamline our jobs and bond us to our colleagues. But sometimes…
(Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific has simplified the workflow for its SureTect PCR (polymerase chain reaction) system by introducing streamlined handling and fail-safe color-coded plates and reagents to smart, intuitive software and instrumentation.
In the pursuit of food…
(Hexagon: Cobham, Surrey, U.K.) -- Hexagon has announced the winner of the second cohort of its Sixth Sense open innovation platform, which nurtures startups creating solutions to pressing manufacturing challenges.
Hexagon is a global digital reality solutions provider with technology that…
(AW-Lake: Oak Creek, WI) -- AW-Lake is supplying flow monitors to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for use on its research vessels as part of a process to measure the temperature and salt content of the world’s oceans.
NOAA previously was unaware when a pump clogged…
In a highly regulated industry like medical technology, manufacturing processes must undergo either process verification or process validation to ensure they’re consistently producing the correct result. The question is, which one should you use?
Verification and validation are two different…
Knowledge-intensive work is quite different from the physical manufacturing work that birthed the corporate hierarchies widely prevalent today. Consider the incompetent Pointy-Haired Boss in the Dilbert comic strip: He can’t lead through wisdom or better information, and he’s unable to control his…
Knowledge-intensive work is quite different from the physical manufacturing work that birthed the corporate hierarchies widely prevalent today. Consider the incompetent Pointy-Haired Boss in the Dilbert comic strip: He can’t lead through wisdom or better information, and he’s unable to control his…
Knowledge-intensive work is quite different from the physical manufacturing work that birthed the corporate hierarchies widely prevalent today. Consider the incompetent Pointy-Haired Boss in the Dilbert comic strip: He can’t lead through wisdom or better information, and he’s unable to control his…
(PR Newswire: Boston, MA) -- Membrane materials are of fundamental importance for fuel cells—so significant, in fact, that they typically give their name to the fuel cell, as is the case for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. IDTechEx forecasts the market for ion-exchange membranes in PEM…
(HEIDENHAIN: Traunreut, Germany) -- To assist in training the next generation of manufacturing professionals, ACU-RITE is offering deep discounts on its line of DROs and MILLPWR G2 CNC retrofit packages.
Additionally, HEIDENHAIN offers a collection of educational services and products to meet the…
Shortly before the layoffs at Salesforce, Marc Benioff, co-founder and co-CEO of Salesforce, sent a companywide Slack message complaining about the low productivity of recent hires made during the pandemic and asked, “Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture…
(Cablevey Conveyors: Oskaloosa, IA) -- The food processing industry continues to experience significant growth. Budgets trend upward for conveying equipment and maintenance in the year ahead, with 82 percent of those surveyed reporting their budgets will be increasing in the next 12 months.
To…
If you feel like there are fewer workers to be found these days, rest assured—you are correct. A decrease in the rate of births, declining since the 1970s, coupled with decreasing labor market participation, more job openings, a shortfall of immigrants, and a surge of retirements, is creating a…
