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Manufacturing
Sticky Batches: A Quality Case Study on Capturing Frontline Knowledge of Gummy Bears
Allen Yeung
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 six months per new…
Manufacturing
AI Brings Order to Label Diversity
Sabine Terrasi

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…

Improvement Tools
How to Foster Incremental Innovation at Work
Kate Zabriskie

When people hear the word innovation, they often think of groundbreaking products, disruptive technologies, or revolutionary ideas. But not every improvement needs to reinvent the wheel. Small changes might seem insignificant at first, but their cumulative effect can be transformative.

Improved efficiency: Tiny adjustments to workflows can save hours of time over weeks and…

People Management
Hidden Rebellion Against RTO and a Push for Well-Being
Gleb Tsipursky

The office lights are on, but plenty of seats stay empty. Employees have heard the policy, nodded at talking points, and then organized their week around what helps them live well. That quiet opt-out shows up in badge data and calendar behavior, and it’s reshaping how leaders must think about performance, loyalty, and space. The gap between formal rules and lived practice isn’t a blip. It’s…

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The Beginner’s Mind and the Ethical Imperative
Harish Jose
In this article I’m looking at Shunryū Suzuki’s beginner’s mind in Zen and Heinz von Foerster’s…
How to Make Your Life Easier With ERP Scheduling
Dusty Alexander
Ask anyone in manufacturing or in a project-driven company who has the most difficult job, and…
Navigating FDA QMSR in 2026
QT9 Software
For years, many medical device manufacturers approached U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Get Your Head Around Revisions to ISO Management Standards
Tobias Lurk
ISO has set its focus on revising three key management system standards this year. It started with…
An Unlikely Pairing: More on the NASCAR and Hexagon Partnership
Bryan Balch, Quality Digest
With Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence’s recent announcement of its inclusion in the NASCAR…
Visualizing Weibull Distribution Parameters Confidence Intervals
Prasanth Sambaraju
The Weibull distribution is a continuous probability distribution often used in reliability…
When Brain Scans Beat Surveys, and When They Don’t
Hilke Plassmann, Paulo Albuquerque
A food company spends months and significant budget on consumer research before launching a new…
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News
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Releases VGSTUDIO MAX 2026.2
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence’s…
ASQ Virtual Meeting: ‘Nuclear Power Renaissance—Opportunities and Challenges’
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- What we think we know about nuclear power is changing. For example, an…
KoCoS Introduces the PROMET SE+ Microohmmeter
(KoCoS Messtechnik: Korbach, Germany) -- With the PROMET SE+, KoCoS Messtechnik AG introduces a new…
TÜV Rheinland Supports NVIDIA With Functional Safety Certification Expertise
(TÜV Rheinland: Chicago) -- TÜV Rheinland North America has announced its collaboration with NVIDIA…
DMSC Model-Based Characteristics Standard Approved as American National Standard
(DMSC: Rochester, NY) -- The Digital Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC) has announced that its…
Wall Colmonoy Launches Advanced Vacuum Investment Casting Facility
(Wall Colmonoy: Pontardawe, Wales) -- Wall Colmonoy has officially launched a 2.5 million pound ($3…
Large-Aperture XY Motion Stage Built for Semiconductor Automation
(Physik Instrumente: Shrewsbury, MA) -- For high-precision applications that don’t require the…
Detection Technology Expands X-Panel XL Series of Extra-Large X-ray Flat Panel Detectors
(Detection Technology: Espoo, Finland) -- Detection Technology, a global leader in X-ray detector…
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