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Manufacturing
Fixing Manufacturing’s AI Bottleneck Through Specialized Models
Oliver Trabert
Manufacturing in the U.S. is seeing its fastest growth in more than four years, driven in large part by rising demand for AI infrastructure. That expansion is arriving alongside severe supply shortages and higher input costs. Manufacturers look to AI to increase capacity and operate more efficiently. But routing every request through the largest available model creates another capacity problem…
Customer Care
Is Overreliance on AI Causing Agency Decay?
Cornelia C. Walther

When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, it arrived as a research preview: a conversational system that could answer follow-up questions, draft fluent text, and give millions of people their first direct experience of generative AI. The early mood was experimental. People tested it, teased it, challenged it, praised it, feared it, and shared screenshots. Three and a half years later,…

QMS and Standards
What FDA Warning Letters Reveal About Records, Spreadsheets, and AI
Kendall Kunz

On March 3, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to Tentamus India Private Limited. The inspection it describes started the way most do, with one difference. At the initiation of the inspection, the agency’s investigator observed the firm attempting to remove two large garbage bags from the site. The bags were later determined to contain analytical…

Manufacturing
RC14001 Is Evolving. Here’s What That Means for Your Supply Chain.
Candace Orbaugh

At first glance, the next version of RC14001, the management standard for the chemical industry, looks like a simplification. In practice, it gives organizations more flexibility but also more responsibility. The revised standard no longer hands organizations a predefined list of stakeholder groups to prioritize. Organizations must instead build and document their own risk-based case for who…

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The Art of Forecasting: Part 1
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The Supplier Life Cycle Tool Kit
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Your Measurement System Doesn’t Know Where It Is
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A measurement isn’t only a number. It’s a number obtained by an instrument in a physical state.…
From Detection to Decision: What Makes Subsurface Inspection Data Actually Useful?
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Finding something underground is one thing. Giving a project team information they can actually use…
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IDS Expands uEye Live Product Line With IP69K-Rated Model for Demanding Environments
(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- Dust, moisture, and high-pressure cleaning place high demands on…
New AI Technique Could Make Minimally Invasive Surgeries Safer and More Precise
(MIT News: Cambridge, MA) -- Researchers have created a new technique that accurately and rapidly…
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