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Jennifer Chu
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align in one direction, others form intricate patterns, helping parts of the body move in multiple ways.
In recent years, scientists and engineers have…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- How can we glean useful insights from databases containing confidential information while protecting the privacy of the individuals whose data are contained within?
Differential privacy, a way of defining privacy in a mathematically rigorous manner, can help strike this…
Christine Schaefer
José Pires, founder and CEO of Global Excellence & Innovation, has helped large and small organizations across multiple industries transform their leadership to achieve better results. Based on his decades of experience guiding organizations toward performance excellence, innovation, and…
Quality Digest
(NewTek: Pennsauken, NJ) -- NewTek LVDT linear position sensors and signal conditioners are used in aircraft test stands and maintenance training equipment to provide accurate feedback on the position of actuators in smaller light aircraft. Known for their high reliability over millions of cycles,…
Quality Digest
(AMETEK: Buffalo, NY) -- Reichert Technologies, a business of AMETEK and a global leader in designing, engineering, and manufacturing refractometers and analytical instruments, has rolled out the latest enhancement of its Refractix Refractometer, now capable of measuring Brix to a hundredth of a…
Kate Zabriskie
It starts innocently enough. You want to ensure everything runs smoothly, so you check in often. You spot a typo in a presentation, so you fix it yourself.
Someone misses a minor detail and you think, “I’ll just handle it next time.” Before long, you’re reviewing every email, sitting in on every…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials. Knowledge obtained by these new measurements, published in…
Quality Digest
(Sandvik Coromant U.S.: Mebane, NC) -- Cutting tool specialist Sandvik Coromant has launched its CoroMill Plura barrel, a new family of optimized solid end mills designed specifically for profiling applications. This new solution provides high process security, significant productivity gains, and…
Quality Digest
(MxD: Chicago) -- Join other industry professionals at the 2025 MBE & QIF Summit. This event is designed to benefit professionals working in or supporting the fields of design, manufacturing, or quality. The event will be at MxD in Chicago, April 15–17, 2025.
With a focus on the exchange of…
Quality Digest
(Paul N. Gardner Co.: Columbia, MD) -- Paul N. Gardner Co. (GARDCO), worldwide distributors, producers, and designers of quality physical and inspection instruments for paint, coatings, and related industries, announces its new Intelligent Weighing Technology 15481 balance scale.
Intelligent…
Mark Hembree
Some people don’t feel like they’re working unless their hair’s on fire. Somehow, they think it’s admirable to be feverish at a frenzied pace, breathless and full of urgency, turning tasks in record time and pushing the team to accelerate. Surely others will take notice and marvel at such hard work…
Angelina Rivera
Manufacturing is a fast-paced, constantly evolving, and dynamic environment, and the supply chain is at its heart. For small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs), navigating the complexities of the supply chain often feels like a high-stakes balancing act. From juggling fluctuating material costs…
Quality Digest
(A3: Ann Arbor, MI) -- The Association for Advancing Automation (A3), a leading voice in automation and robotics, is launching a new industry event, FOCUS: Intelligent Vision & Industrial AI Conference.
Scheduled for Sept. 24–25, 2025, in Seattle, this conference will provide an in-depth look…
Laura Mgrdichian-West
One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies will likely be based on “spintronics,” which leverages both an electron’s charge and its spin—the tiny “up” or “down” magnetic moment carried by every electron. Now, a…
Quality Digest
(Nikon Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology has launched three new ECLIPSE microscope models—the LV100NDA LED, LV100ND LED, and LV100N POL LED—to strengthen the company’s comprehensive range of industrial microscope solutions. These microscopes have adopted a high color-rendering LED light…
Mike Figliuolo
A leader’s daily decision checklist is daunting: From hiring or firing to major business changes, every judgment call carries with it some level of risk. A bad choice could result in a toxic hire or a new product launch that crashes and burns. Perhaps more frightening is this: One poor decision…
Quality Digest
(SendCutSend: Reno, NV) -- Since 2018, SendCutSend has been on a mission to make U.S. manufacturing accessible, fast, and affordable while maintaining high quality. The company recently cut its turnaround time in half with its newly launched “Expedite Service.” Custom manufactured parts are now out…
Quality Digest
(Siemens USA: Washington, DC) -- Siemens has introduced the Virtual Product Expert (VPE), a new support program for its CNC machine tool users, machine builders, dealers, and importers.
Through the VPE program, customers can now interact directly with a SINUMERIK CNC product expert and have their…
Jonathan R. Todd
Geopolitical risk is emerging as one of the greatest challenges facing domestic and international business today. It has risen from a boardroom issue to one drawing the awareness and attention of both personnel and the general public. These days everyone knows the word “supply chain” and has some…
Adam Zewe
Imagine that a robot is helping you clean the dishes. You ask it to grab a soapy bowl out of the sink, but its gripper slightly misses the mark.
Using a new framework developed by MIT and NVIDIA researchers, you could correct that robot’s behavior with simple interactions. The method would allow…
Quality Digest
(Sandvik: Stockholm) -- Sandvik has signed an agreement to acquire Verisurf Software Inc., a U.S.-based 3D metrology software solutions provider. Verisurf will complement and enhance Sandvik’s position in industrial metrology and strengthen the combined digital manufacturing offering to small and…
Creaform
Each type of part presents its own set of inspection challenges. This is especially true for sheet metal parts that are made of various entities, each with different positioning and dimensioning tolerances, and variable thickness gauges and sizes. These features can be inherently laborious to…
Quality Digest
(AIM3D: Rostock, Germany) -- 3D pellet-extrusion printers complement conventional processes with an additive manufacturing strategy without molds. AIM3D is now presenting universally applicable extruder developments for third-party suppliers to open up new areas of application for 3D screw…
Quality Digest
(ATI: Dallas)--Allegheny Technologies (ATI) celebrated the commissioning of its world-class additive manufacturing products facility, bringing online the most advanced large-format, metal-additive manufacturing capabilities in the industry. The vertically integrated greenfield build includes design…
David Isaacson
Labor shortages are hitting manufacturers hard, and they’re coming in fast from many directions. What’s not so obvious is the extent to which the labor shortages are affecting manufacturers, the products they produce, the workers they employ, and the customers they serve.
According to a study by…
