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Improvement Tools
Why Faster Scanners Don’t Always Mean Faster Inspection
Darren Goh
Ask anyone who’s bought a handheld 3D scanner with optical tracking system in the last few years about what sold them, and you’ll hear about speed. More points per second. Larger scanning areas. Faster data capture. Those improvements matter. But when you look at the entire inspection process, from the moment a part arrives for measurement to the moment a report is delivered, the scanner itself…
Improvement Tools
AI’s Role in Strengthening the Future Workforce for Healthcare Technology Management
Rob Moorey

The healthcare technology management (HTM) industry is facing a looming labor shortage and must attract enough skilled professionals to meet future demand. The industry is grappling with an aging workforce, a shrinking traditional talent pool, and increasingly complex medical equipment. Healthcare organizations need new ways to preserve expertise, develop new talent faster, and maintain…

Improvement Tools
ISO 9001 Sets New Rules of Play for Quality Management
Vick Vaishnavi

The complexity of today’s manufacturing operations and ever-evolving digital disruptions, including the biggest of all, artificial intelligence (AI), require standards that set the pace and keep organizations around the world aligned with what quality looks like. 

ISO 9001 has been the internationally recognized standard for quality management systems (QMS) for about 40 years,…

Manufacturing
The Inspection Passed. The Product Still Failed.
Dan Leiva

The vision system scanned the part and logged a pass. The SPC chart stayed inside its control limits. The line kept moving.

Three weeks later, the customer complaint arrived. The defect had been there the whole time, sitting just inside the algorithm’s confidence threshold, close enough to spec that the model called it good.

Nobody did anything wrong. The camera worked.…

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What Is Agentic AI Today, and What Do We Want It to Be?
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Whether you’re a researcher stumped by a mystery compound or a manufacturer perplexed by an unknown…
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