As we celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary this year, NIST experts have been working to preserve our nation’s history for the next 250-plus years. Among other historic preservation efforts, NIST engineers and scientists created a bespoke time capsule with artifacts from around the country. As required by law, the time capsule was buried in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026, and should…

As a significant portion of the experienced manufacturing workforce approaches retirement, companies face the critical threat of losing undocumented tribal knowledge. Veteran operators possess decades of hard-won, job-specific insights that rarely exist in paper manuals or corporate file systems.

When these workers leave, rebuilding that operational capacity can take more than…

Inbound receiving operations (aka goods-in) in the electronics industry are under increasing pressure.

Countless components from a wide range of manufacturers arrive with constantly changing label layouts, multilingual markings, and ever shorter throughput times. What once could be managed manually has now become a bottleneck. Damaged barcodes or reflective packaging further…