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(Momentum Technologies: Carrollton, TX) -- Momentum Technologies, a critical minerals refining and recovery company, has announced a series of milestones. Using its proprietary MSX technology, the company produced some of the purest rare earths ever reported at its demonstration plant in Carrollton…
Wilhelm Klein
In manufacturing, some of the most important financial gains never appear as an obvious line item.
A machine doesn’t stop. A batch doesn’t need to be quarantined. A customer doesn’t complain—no defective product has reached them. A warranty claim never arrives. A quality manager doesn’t have to…
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(HeyGears: Irvine, CA) -- For creators, makers, studios, and small businesses, color has remained one of the biggest barriers in digital fabrication. Multicolor fused deposition modeling (FDM) is limited in detail and often creates waste towers, while resin 3D printing delivers fine detail but…
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(TESCO: Bristol, PA) -- As electric utilities continue modernizing the grid with advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), distributed energy resources (DERs), electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and increasingly sophisticated distribution systems, field technicians require testing equipment…
NIST
Whether you’re a researcher stumped by a mystery compound or a manufacturer perplexed by an unknown substance, there’s a major resource you can rely on: a library of chemical fingerprints, known as mass spectra, that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained for…
Rick Young
Manufacturers are exploring artificial intelligence, but most are still struggling to scale it across operations. According to the latest Sikich Manufacturing Industry Pulse survey, 92% of manufacturers are actively exploring AI. Yet roughly three-quarters of respondents remain in research or pilot…
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(TRIMEDX: Indianapolis) -- TRIMEDX, an industry-leading, independent clinical-asset management company delivering comprehensive clinical engineering services, clinical asset informatics, medical device cybersecurity, and AI-powered healthcare technology solutions, announces a new partnership with…
Bruce Hamilton
Walk into almost any factory, hospital, office, or warehouse, and you’ll likely encounter tier boards with a familiar set of colors: green, yellow, and red. Green means good. Red means bad. And yellow? Well, it has… some issues.
I began thinking about this after a discussion with my good friend…
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(Alliance for Performance Excellence: Phoenix) -- Thirteen U.S. businesses and organizations—the highest number in nearly a decade—have been named finalists for the 2026 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and will receive site visits this fall.
The Baldrige Award identifies national role…
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(Starrett: Athol, MA) -- The L.S. Starrett Co., a leading global manufacturer of precision measuring tools, gages, metrology systems, and more, will be demonstrating the latest in quality control inspection technology at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), Booth 134244, Quality…
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(FARO CREAFORM: Lévis, QC) -- FARO CREAFORM, a business of AMETEK Inc. and global provider of 3D scanning and portable CMM solutions, announces new additions to its HandySCAN 3D family.
HandySCAN EVO and HandySCAN EVO Plus enhance everyday inspection workflows through a more intuitive, user-…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
Speaking with experts who love their jobs usually makes you aware of two things simultaneously: 1) how much you don’t know, and 2) how much you’d like to know. My conversations with Prashant Darisi and Vick Vaishnavi were no exception. I walked away with an appreciation for the decades of expertise…
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(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation has released “Scaling MES Across the Enterprise,” an industry insights report based on input from 1,560 manufacturing and industrial operations decision makers in 17 countries.
The research finds that despite widespread manufacturing…
Chip Bell
Theodore Roosevelt skinny-dipped in the Potomac River, owned a pet hyena, boxed in the White House, and reportedly drank a gallon of coffee a day (a legend that inspired Maxwell House to attribute the phrase “good to the last drop” to him). At his funeral, a New York police captain said, “It was…
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(Aras: Andover, MA) -- Aras, a leading provider of digital thread solutions for product life cycle management (PLM) and engineering AI, announced a new “Industry Accelerator” designed to support semiconductor manufacturing and design organizations’ PLM strategies. This solution extends Aras…
Donald J. Wheeler
Walter Shewhart’s average and range chart had been around for more than a decade when, in 1941, W. J. Jennett came up with the chart for individual values and moving ranges (an XmR chart). The XmR is built on the same foundation as the average and range chart, but it involves two unique ideas.…
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(Renegade: Reedsburg, WI) -- Renegade Parts Washers is marking 30 years of manufacturing industrial parts washing equipment for machine shops, manufacturers, fleet maintenance operations, rebuilders, repair facilities, transit systems, rail operations, and industrial service teams.
Founded in 1996…
Gleb Tsipursky
The next advantage in business will come from leaders who can manage machine labor as deliberately as they manage people. Professor Ethan Mollick at Wharton framed this as AI management after watching executive MBA students use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Claude Code, and Google Antigravity to build…
John Tschohl
Most organizations are reluctant to spend time and money training their workforce on customer service.
There are a variety of reasons:1. It will do no good.2. By the time they’re trained, the employees will leave.3. It’s common sense. Everyone already understands customer service.4. It’s too…
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(Hamar Laser Instruments: Danbury, CT) -- Hamar Laser Instruments, a world leader in laser alignment and calibration systems, has enhanced its L-703SP Surface Plate Calibration System with an optional, ultraquick Lapping Line View software module and new A-703SP-LM-M “mirrored” surface-plate…
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(Eve: Melbourne, FL) -- Eve Air Mobility, a global leader in electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and urban air mobility (UAM) solutions, has published its inaugural Sustainability Report. The report outlines Eve’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy and…
Cornelia C. Walther
Every boardroom has heard it. Every procurement checklist includes it. Every investor deck now features it somewhere between the mission statement and the revenue model. “AI ethics” has become the term that signals seriousness without necessarily delivering it. That gap deserves examination—because…
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(OGP: Rochester, NY) -- Optical Gaging Products (OGP), a leading manufacturer of optical and precision multisensor metrology systems for industrial quality control, has announced StarLite S1, the all-new semiautomatic 3-axis video measurement system.
StarLite S1 is a compact, workbench-style 3-…
Bhuvan Yadav
False rejects quietly impede manufacturing efficiency, yet most quality teams treat them as an acceptable cost. This article examines why they persist, what makes them hard to eliminate with conventional systems, and how AI-based visual inspection is helping plants address the root cause.
The…
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(AIMS Metrology: Dayton, OH) -- Metrology continues to transition from its role as a final quality control checkpoint to an inline and in-process function. The ability to check parts as they are made enables manufacturers to adjust equipment in real time, helping to reduce scrap and rework. The…