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The digitalization of society during the last decade has created many opportunities for businesses and organizations. But digitalization, combined with a rapidly changing world, has also opened new threats and vulnerabilities that can cause serious damage to businesses. Every day we see headlines…
Quality Digest
(Kennametal: Pittsburgh) -- Kennametal announces a new integration with Hexagon’s cloud-based Tool Library, combining Kennametal’s tooling expertise with Hexagon’s advanced computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) technology. This collaboration gives machinists instant access to verified Kennametal…
Chris Pinaire
The manufacturing industry is undergoing a transformation driven by rapid technological advancements, changing consumer preferences, and evolving regulatory frameworks. Manufacturers everywhere face unprecedented challenges as they seek to remain competitive, profitable, and sustainable in the face…
Quality Digest
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized agreements with the Alliance for Performance Excellence and the Baldrige Foundation to transfer most operational responsibilities of the Baldrige Program to the two…
Elizabeth Weddle
Early-stage medtech companies are under tremendous pressure to develop quickly, prove value, and obtain regulatory approval or clearance as fast as possible. The pace of innovation in the industry has increased tremendously, thanks to more options for outsourcing and new technology like 3D scanning…
Quality Digest
(Mahr: Providence, RI) -- Mahr, a leading provider of dimensional metrology solutions, has launched its MarSurf3D comprehensive scattered light portfolio following the company’s 2024 acquisition of OptoSurf GmbH. This strategic expansion adds cutting-edge scattered light technology to Mahr’s…
Ray Chalmers
All manufacturing companies must manage an ever-growing mountain of priceless inspection data. Yet measurement results, process iterations, and approval reports are scattered across hard drives and USB sticks. We live in a digital world that advances daily, yet obtaining, accessing, sharing, and…
Peter Dizikes
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- MIT has long bolstered U.S. manufacturing by developing key innovations and production technologies, and training entrepreneurs. In fall 2025, the institute introduced a new tool for U.S. manufacturing: an education program for workers, held at collaborating institutions,…
Ken Eme
When I first became involved in lean (continuous improvement), I was the VP of operations at a privately held company in the Midwest. It was 2003, and as a newly promoted senior executive I was eager to find a strategy that could make a real difference in our operations.
I quickly realized that…
Quality Digest
(Divergent: Los Angeles; Saab: Linköping, Sweden) -- Divergent Technologies Inc. and Saab announced the initial delivery of fuselages for a Saab future product concept of an autonomous aircraft.
The fuselages, designed and manufactured by Saab and Divergent, were developed and built with no unique…
Harish Jose
In this article I want to spend time with Søren Kierkegaard. I’ve been interested in his ideas because he occupies an unusual place in the history of thought. He’s considered a pioneer of existentialism, and yet he was also a man of faith.
Most of the existentialist thinkers who followed him,…
Mike King
As we look ahead to 2026, the medtech sector stands at an intersection of regulatory evolution, technological advancement, and operational transformation.
The landscape for quality and regulatory affairs (QARA) professionals continues to shift, driven by emerging AI capabilities, changing…
Quality Digest
(TRIMEDX: Indianapolis) -- TRIMEDX has launched TRIMEDX-AIQ, an AI intelligence offering that sets a new standard for clinical asset optimization. Purpose-built for health systems, TRIMEDX-AIQ combines the largest and most comprehensive data set in the healthcare technology management (HTM)…
George Yang
Your IT team enabled Copilot and Gemini last quarter without checking with the lawyers. Now your employees are putting company secrets into systems that nobody owns, nobody governs, and nobody can reliably retrieve when opposing counsel sends a subpoena.
You have a discovery problem, and it’s…
Quality Digest
(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation, one of the world’s largest companies dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, announces a series of strategic innovations to its manufacturing execution system (MES) portfolio, focused on flexibility, scalability, and…
Melanie Morales
In modern manufacturing, the smartest factories know that safety comes first. Any injury, equipment problem, or unexpected stop can slow everything down.
The good news? The right equipment updates can reduce many of these risks. From tool balance systems to better cable management, the right…
Quality Digest
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw, a global leader in precision engineering and additive manufacturing (AM), has announced the launch of a next-generation Build Processor (NxG BP) developed in collaboration with Materialise. The new software strengthens integration between Materialise Magics…
Quality Digest
(RS Group: London) -- RS, a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, offers a vast selection of smart pneumatic automation and control products designed to reduce the inherent inefficiency of compressed air systems.
Compressed air is a safe, reliable…
Gleb Tsipursky
The demos look slick, the promises even slicker. In slides and keynotes, agentic assistants plan, click, and ship your work while you sip coffee. Promoters like McKinsey call it the agentic AI advantage.
Then you put these systems on real client work and the wheels come off. The newest empirical…
Mike Zecchino, Mark Malburg
Choosing the correct instrument for surface texture measurement can be confusing, given the wide range of options. Stylus-based instruments are the most prevalent in manufacturing. Yet, measuring a surface with a sharp stylus can seem old-fashioned when so many noncontact optical techniques are now…
Quality Digest
(QuickVault by Veeva: Pleasanton, CA) -- QuickVault by Veeva, a leading all-in-one eQMS platform purpose-built for small and growing medtech companies, has announced the launch of its new equipment management module, an integrated set of capabilities that automates and centralizes every aspect of…
Dan Steele
For years, manufacturers have been told the future of Industry 4.0 lives in the cloud. Vendors promised plug-and-play AI that could analyze everything, automate anything, and transform the factory floor overnight. In theory, this appears to work, but operationalizing cloud-based AI isn’t always…
Maartje van Krieken
Performance rarely collapses with fanfare. More often, it flatlines quietly; sales soften, productivity slows, priorities blur, and yet teams run hard without moving the needle. In 2025, the RSM U.S. Middle Market Business Index slid from the low 140s into the low 120s in a short period, with fewer…
Quality Digest
(Applied Manufacturing Technologies: Orion, MI) -- Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), a North American leader in automation engineering specializing in advanced material handling, end-of-line solutions, on-demand engineering services, and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for manufacturing,…
Jeff Dewar
When we set out to film Episode 2, we faced a fundamental challenge: How do you make people care about errors they can’t see?
(See all the episodes here.)
Error propagation is critical to metrology, the science of measurement, but it’s abstract. These are mistakes measured in tiny amounts that…