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(Octave: Huntsville, AL) -- Octave, the potential software spin-off from Hexagon AB, unveiled its new brand identity, marking a major step toward its transition into an independent company. Comprising Hexagon’s Asset Life Cycle Intelligence and Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial divisions,…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Kairos Power have entered into a $27 million strategic partnership to accelerate the technology needed to deploy a new generation of advanced nuclear reactors and support U.S. nuclear energy goals.
Under the partnership…
Chip Bell
Delight your customer! Exceed your customers’ expectations! Provide value-added service! These have been mantras of customer service gurus for a long time. Such a focus on “giving more” has improved customer service quality in many organizations. It has also increased customer standards for what…
Quality Digest
(HED: Hartford, WI) -- A national survey conducted by HED, an integrated architecture and engineering firm, reveals a critical mismatch between how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming knowledge work and how office environments are designed to support it.
The study, which surveyed workers…
Adam Zewe
Studying gene expression in a cancer patient’s cells can help clinical biologists understand the cancer’s origin and predict the success of different treatments. But cells are complex and contain many layers, so how the biologist conducts measurements affects which data they can obtain. For…
Quality Digest
(EV Group: St. Florian, Austria) -- EV Group, serving advanced and future semiconductor designs and chip integration schemes, has unveiled its EVG120 automated resist processing system—a major update to one of the company’s leading coater/developer platforms.
Incorporating a new compact…
Gleb Tsipursky
Transparency is not a luxury in today’s transformative projects—it’s a necessity. As organizations integrate generative AI (gen AI) into their operations, the importance of clear, consistent communication around project milestones and outcomes can’t be overstated.
Employees aren’t passive…
Quality Digest
(ZEISS: Oberkochen, Germany) -- ZEISS Ventures has participated in the 3.5 million euros pre-Series A financing round for Custom Surgical, a Munich-based medical technology company focused on digitizing and standardizing ophthalmology workflows.
The funding round, led by Ventech and joined by…
Quality Digest
(SaidText: Reggio Emilia, Italy) -- SaidText announces the U.S. market rollout of its voice-driven AI platform designed for industrial and manufacturing operations.
The solution helps frontline teams capture critical updates hands-free and converts them into structured, trackable operational data…
Chris Chuang
As manufacturing emerges from a period of contraction, the industry faces more than just empty roles. The average tenure of a manufacturing worker has dropped, but the complexity of the machinery hasn’t. While the industry sees signs of hope, we face a knowledge crisis far more dangerous than…
Mike Figliuolo
What’s the biggest risk facing the leaders of most entrepreneurial ventures? It’s not closing that first round of funding or landing a cornerstone customer. As with most things, it all comes back to people—and your ability to lead those who don’t have much practice following.
It’s easy to be…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Two U.S. organizations will receive the 2025 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s only presidential honor recognizing performance excellence.
The award, based on the Baldrige Excellence Framework and administered by the National Institute of Standards…
Riley Wilson
From blood tests to mammograms, doctors need reliable measurements to make informed decisions about their patients’ health and deliver safe treatments. That’s why the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) serves as an important partner to health professionals and their patients…
Quality Digest
(Groundup.ai: Singapore) -- Groundup.ai, the team behind the world’s first agentic AI for industrial maintenance, has announced the global launch of Groundup Academy.
This specialized, no-cost educational ecosystem is designed to transform the global industrial workforce from reactive “firefighters”…
Quality Digest
(HelloNation: Rochester, NY) -- How can homeowners keep their heating and cooling systems running efficiently without feeling overwhelmed by complex maintenance tasks? According to HelloNation, Barbara Huether Clark of Huether Heating & Cooling explains that HVAC system maintenance can be…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
In a long-running collaboration with GE Aerospace, researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia have been steadily working to improve the performance of high-pressure turbine (HPT) engines through computer simulations on leadership-class computing systems. These turbines are the heart of…
Quality Digest
(Minitab: State College, PA) – Minitab, a global leader in data collection, predictive analytics, and process improvement solutions for manufacturers and organizations worldwide, has acquired Effex and its cutting-edge design of experiments (DOE) and optimization tool that offers true custom…
Quality Digest
(AW-Lake: Oak Creek, WI) -- AW-Lake, a flow instrumentation manufacturer, announces the launch of its TH Series high-accuracy turbine flow meter, a precision liquid flow measurement solution for demanding industrial applications in which every fraction of a percent matters.
Precision machining,…
Daniel Stewart
Imagine you’re a frontline worker. A new AI system has been rolled out on your line. You’ve heard that it boosts productivity, but you’re not sure how it works or what it means for your role.
Would you:• Spend 20 extra minutes entering data into it if you feel jotting notes on paper was just as…
NIST
Wrapped snugly in a custom container, seven carefully chosen materials left Earth on Aug. 24, 2025, traveling at 17,500 mph. Nestled at the top of a Falcon 9 rocket, house dust, freeze-dried human liver, and cholesterol joined four other scientific specimens to travel to the International Space…
Quality Digest
(Hitem3D: Singapore) -- In 2026, image-to-3D AI is increasingly assessed through a practical lens—not how convincingly a model looks onscreen, but how reliably it performs in 3D printing workflows. As additive manufacturing moves deeper into customized production and short-run manufacturing, the…
Jasmine Escalera
The traditional promise of work was simple: Support your life, care for your family, and build toward meaningful milestones like purchasing a home or saving for your children’s education. But for many modern professionals, that relationship with work is shifting. Instead of working to live, more…
Quality Digest
(FARO, Lake Mary, FL; Creaform: Lévis, QC) -- Faro Technologies and Creaform, businesses of AMETEK Inc., announce a major new chapter in their evolutions that will reframe how industries approach metrology and reality capture.
The combination of FARO’s 3D measurement business segment with Creaform…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at NIST announces the launch of the AI Agent Standards Initiative. This ensures that the next generation of AI—AI agents capable of autonomous actions—is widely adopted with confidence, can function securely on behalf…
Bruce Hamilton
In 1960, organizational psychologist Douglas McGregor introduced a conceptual framework of two contrasting theories about human motivation that grounded my Toyota Production System (TPS) learning.
His Theory X was based on the assumption that workers are fundamentally lazy and can’t be trusted to…