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(Ott In-Situ: Fort Collins, CO) -- Ott In-Situ announces the release of the Deployment Report, a new feature of In-Situ’s VuSitu mobile app. The Deployment Report automatically compiles instrument settings, site details, and field notes into a single, consolidated record the moment a technician…
Akhilesh Gulati
Before something important leaves the ground, someone has to be willing to ask an uncomfortable question: What could make this fail?
That question takes on a different meaning when the “something” is a spacecraft.
During the development of NASA’s X-43A, an experimental hypersonic aircraft, the…
Quality Digest
(Interplay Learning: Austin, TX) --Interplay Learning, a leader in immersive learning for the skilled trades and industrial crafts, announces the launch of Skill Verification, a simulation-based assessment tool that enables organizations to evaluate an individual’s ability to perform trades-…
Donald J. Wheeler
When a time series displays a pattern that repeats itself periodically it is said to have seasonal effects. The word seasonal may apply to days, weeks, months, quarters, or any pattern that recurs regularly throughout the data. While these seasonal effects will complicate our analysis, their…
Quality Digest
(ANSI: New York) -- Additive manufacturing (AM) is changing how the world creates, from heart valves to jet engine components. Standards are what allow these innovations to move from prototype to production safely and at scale.
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and America Makes…
Angie Basiouny
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, all the dithering about remote work stopped virtually overnight. Working from home wasn’t perfect, but people made it work.
At first, remote employees were triumphant as they checked off their personal and professional to-do lists from the comfort…
Harish Jose
In this article I’ll be looking at the shape of this question regarding complexity that comes from Plato. In the Euthyphro dialogue, Socrates asks whether a thing is pious because the gods love it, or the gods love it because it is pious. If piety is defined by the gods’ love, it has no ground of…
Quality Digest
(Hexagon: London) -- New data from an international study by Hexagon, a global leader in measurement technologies, suggests the world’s first “robot generation” has arrived.
Across nine countries, children are growing up with fundamentally different expectations of robotics than today’s adults,…
Paras Kharwal
On Sept. 16, 2026, ISO published the sixth edition of ISO 9001. Within days, the summaries arrived: what changed in Clause 5, what the new Annex A says, how the 2024 climate amendment carries forward. They’re useful, but they answer the questions certified organizations ask least often. The…
Quality Digest
(Dürr: Southfield, MI) -- Dürr is expanding its dispensing technology portfolio with the EcoMeter XS, a compact microdispensing unit that automatically applies very small quantities of adhesives, sealants, and other high-viscosity materials. The system primarily serves manufacturers of battery and…
Davide Bertoletti
Adding a control element to any system may seem like an easy path, even a necessary one. Redundancy reassures the stakeholders and the auditors, and it might become a sales pitch for the customers. Removing such elements is, on the other hand, more challenging; it’s an effort that requires…
Quality Digest
(Enviropass Expertise Inc.: Mount Royal, QC) -- Enviropass Expertise, a Canadian environmental product-compliance consultancy and testing laboratory, has published findings from its January–August 2026 project portfolio, examining practical compliance challenges involving RoHS, REACH, PFAS,…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has adopted the Paris Statement, reaffirming the role of international standards in supporting global efforts to build greater resilience, adapt to climate change, and protect nature.
The ISO Annual Meeting 2026 was hosted…
Timothy Malone
Most shops accept a gauge the same way. They run a gauge repeatability and reproducibility (gauge R&R) study with 10 parts, three appraisers, and three trials. Get a %GRR under 30. File the report and move on. The AIAG criteria are familiar: Under 10% is generally acceptable, 10%–30% may be…
Declan Fitzsimons, Jennifer Petriglieri, Gianpiero Petriglieri
M ore than 80% of restructuring efforts in firms fail. Most explanations focus on poor execution or bad strategy. Our research points to something more uncomfortable: Embarking on organizational transformation isn’t always a rational response to a business challenge but can be a defensive reaction…
Quality Digest
(AI4RVI Inc.: Chester, NJ) -- AI4RVI has announced the launch of Edgevision, a next-generation remote visual inspection (RVI) system built to deliver true high-definition imaging of boiler, heat exchanger, and other tube interior conditions. The system was rolled out at the American Society for…
Gleb Tsipursky
On a Tuesday morning, a support agent in Dublin closes a tricky ticket while an engineer in Bengaluru ships a fix, and a sales manager in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, joins a customer call spanning four time zones. None of them set foot in the same building, yet the work clicks.
New findings in…
Quality Digest
(PI: Shrewsbury, MA) -- Physik Instrumente (PI) is expanding its bi-phase inertia drive (BIX) technology with new motor architectures for compact, high-precision nanopositioning. Building on the B-421 BIX nanopositioning stages, PI engineers have demonstrated new BIX-based designs for higher-force…
Katie Gilbert
William Overman began his Ph.D. program at Stanford Graduate School of Business at an auspicious moment—just two months before ChatGPT publicly launched in November 2022, exploding widely held understandings of what machines can do.
Even as Overman began enlisting AI for his research, he grew wary…
Quality Digest
(DEWALT: Towson, MD) -- DEWALT, a Stanley Black & Decker brand renowned for innovation on the job site, has announced that the world’s first fleet-capable, downward-drilling robot, DALE, has been named a winner in Fast Company’s 2026 Next Big Things in Tech awards. The awards recognize…
Etienne Nichols
Most early-stage medical device companies never decide to skip a quality management system (QMS). They just never decide to buy one. The founding team opens a shared drive, builds a spreadsheet for design inputs and outputs, starts a document register in another tab, and agrees to sort out the real…
Quality Digest
(Digital Metrology: Columbus, OH) -- Digital Metrology Solutions, a provider of measurement software, consulting, and training, has announced a major new release of its OmniSurf surface profile analysis software. This highly visual software provides an easy-to-use toolkit for exploring surface data…
Megan King
Painter Bob Ross taught us that “happy accidents” can make beautiful art. Happy accidents also happen in science when experiments take research in unexpected directions. One dramatic example is Sir Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin.
Not all unexpected scientific developments…
Quality Digest
(Avalue Technology: Marlboro, NJ) -- As artificial intelligence expands across industrial automation, smart healthcare, machine vision, retail, and public services, enterprises are moving from centralized AI processing toward distributed computing architectures. AI training, real-time inference,…
Steve DeWitt
A problem shows up, and the fix usually arrives five minutes later.
“We need more training.”
“We need a better system.”
“We need another person.”
“We need a new checklist.”
Sometimes one of those answers is exactly right. Too often it’s not. The organization has named a solution before even…