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News

Dispense Works Inc. Offers Automation for Vial, Bottle Filling, Capping With Ring Dex Robot

Allows quick changeovers for low- to medium-volume production

Portable Generator Manufacturers’ Association (PGMA) Introduces ANSI/PGMA G300-2018

New standard for safe generator use created by the industry’s own PGMA with the assistance of industry experts

Mahr Introduces the MarForm MMQ 500 Form Tester

Designed for precise measurement of form, featuring new levels of flexibility and speed

Rent Software for Factorywide Asset and Maintenance Management

Rent with flexibility: ASM Factory Equipment Center

Companies Join Forces to Solve Ventilator Issue

Precision optical instrument helps ventilator maker increase specialty valve production in response to shortage

Exact Metrology Offers Raytech Measuring Tables

Single- and three-axis shop-floor dimensional measuring machines for industrial manufacturers

Richard Powell to Retire From Brunson Instrument Co. in 2021

Company launches search for replacement

Manufacturing Electrostatic Discharge-Safe Materials Just Got Easier

Interfacial launches highly filled, proprietary polymer masterbatches

Applied Automation Technologies Joins Andretti Autosport as Team’s Official Metrology Solution

Allows team to focus on quality control in dimensional measurements and overall machining process

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Features

Pandemic Makes Plain the Need for Manufacturing Workforce

Mark Schmit

During the Sept. 18, 2020, session of the “National Conversation with Manufacturers,” our three...

Bendable Concrete and Other CO₂-Infused Cement Mixes Could Dramatically Cut Global Emissions

Lucca Henrion

Duo Zhang

One of the big contributors to climate change is right beneath your feet, and transforming it could...

What Are Lean and Six Sigma? Part 3

Gregg Profozich

Welcome to the third installment of our series on lean and Six Sigma. As we saw in the first...

Is Your Company Culture a Thermostat or Thermometer?

Jason V. Barger

Too many teams and leaders operate in thermometer mode. Without clarity of the type of culture they...

What Is Your True Cost of Quality?

James Wells

When is a product “good enough” to accept? This is the classic challenge of quality. High customer...

The Cost of Bored Industrial Engineers

Andrew Schutte

Industrial engineers design, develop, test, and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial...

Are Leaders Who Coach Lazy?

Jennifer V. Miller

As the parent of two teens, I’ve become quite accustomed to the Eye Roll. This ocular straining...

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