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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…
Quality Digest, Gleb Tsipursky
The ongoing AI boom seems to permeate, and sometimes call into doubt, every aspect of almost everybody’s profession.
Wonder what on earth comes next? You’d do well to ask Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D. He’s widely acknowledged for his expert reads on the future of work. In fact, the man dubbed “The Office…
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(Artec 3D: Luxembourg) -- Global 3D scanning hardware and software leader Artec 3D has announced Artec Point II, the successor to Artec Point, its target-based handheld laser scanner for industrial metrology.
With an expanded laser configuration, Point II captures up to 5.8 million points per…
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(Siborg: Waterloo, ON) -- Siborg Systems Inc. announced the renewal of its calibration certificate at Navair Technology Inc. in Toronto and the successful completion of performance testing for the new LCR-Reader-MPB all-in-one multimeter.
The latest model, built on the award-winning LCR-Reader-MPA…
Cornelia C. Walther
A CEO doesn’t need to read every AI law to understand why regulation matters. It shows up in subtler ways: a sales team using a chatbot with client data, a hiring manager testing an AI screening tool, a board member asking whether the company has an AI policy. AI governance has moved from the…
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(Petram: Jersey City, NJ; Creation-Space: Tel Aviv, Israel) -- Petram, a deep-tech venture, has won the Jonathan Merage Global Subsurface Tech Challenge and a $40,000 prize for a low-noise, electric rock-breaking technology built to serve heavy industry on Earth today and subsurface construction on…
Donald J. Wheeler
Some of my colleagues have recently been pushing multivariate charts. These charts combine several different process outcome values into a single number that’s placed on a chart. Unfortunately, this theoretically elegant approach breaks down in practice for reasons that will be explained here.
We…
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(ATLANT 3D: Copenhagen, Denmark) -- ATLANT 3D has announced the launch of NANOFABRICATOR PRO, the world’s first and only physical platform for AI-driven materials discovery. The platform connects AI-driven materials discovery with programmable atomic-scale fabrication, experimental validation, and…
Michael Masser
There’s a number that stopped me in my tracks recently. U.S. manufacturers spent about $32 billion training and upskilling their people—a 22% jump from 2019—and the average worker now logs close to five more training hours a year than they did back then, climbing from 42.9 hours to 47.6 (…
Paul Kreis
Ask a leadership team how many hours went into last quarter’s operating review. Then ask how many of those hours went into a problem the team had already solved once before. Watch how the room reacts to the second question.
That reaction is the tell. Most organizations don’t have language for it,…
Quality Digest
(Scantron: Taunton, England) -- Scantron Industrial Products Ltd. announces the development and build of its Proscan DDMS 3D line Defect Detection and Measurement System (DDMS).
The DDMS 3D line is an advanced, fully automated solution designed to deliver exceptional accuracy, speed, and…
Neeta Verma
Product compliance is moving beyond certificates and restricted-substance checks. PFAS restrictions, digital product passports, artificial intelligence, supply-chain transparency, and sustainability increasingly require manufacturers to connect regulatory knowledge with reliable product, material,…
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(Michigan Metrology: Livonia, MI) -- Michigan Metrology, provider of surface texture measurement, consulting, and training, is presenting a new, free webinar series.
In the “Surface Roughness, Texture, and Tribology” series, Don Cohen will present excerpts from the short course of the same name.…
Mike Figliuolo
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”—Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part III
If you’ve ever moved to a new role in your company, you’ve probably felt like Michael Corleone at some point. The folks from your old role keep sucking you back in, asking for help, asking you to…
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(Propel: Redwood City, CA) -- Propel, creator of the first product value management (PVM) platform to transform how manufacturers develop, launch, and service products, has announced its release of Propel Manufacturing Hub. It supports engineering and production by integrating PLM with multiple ERP…
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(FARO CREAFORM: Lévis, QC) -- FARO CREAFORM, a business of AMETEK and a global provider of 3D scanning and portable CMM solutions, announces the launch of MetraSCAN BLACK2, a portable, metrology-grade optical 3D scanner engineered to deliver total inspection flexibility on the shop floor. Designed…
Pascal Terrien
In the electrotechnology sector, we know one thing for certain: Trust can’t be imposed; it must be built. Standardization enables us to build it every day. As the world grapples with climate, digital, and societal challenges, manufacturers, electricity producers, grid operators, conformity…
Quality Digest
(Piston Foundation: Stamford, CT; Runge Cars: Alexandria, MN) -- The Piston Foundation and Runge Cars announced the release of a new Petrolicious film documenting a five-day coach-building workshop for Piston Scholar Vincent Ramirez.
Produced by Petrolicious, a Piston Community Partner, the film…
Adam Zewe
Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as for airplane or automobile components. To simulate how those components will perform in realistic situations, they’ll use tried-and-true computer-aided design (CAD) software to generate 3D models of those designs that they…
Quality Digest
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw will showcase a comprehensive portfolio of manufacturing technologies at IMTS 2026, Sept. 14–19, at McCormick Place in Chicago, demonstrating how manufacturers can improve precision, increase productivity, and accelerate automation throughout the production…
Stephanie Ojeda
The recent multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis is a powerful reminder that food quality involves more than appearance, consistency, and shelf life. It requires an integrated approach to food safety, supplier control, traceability, risk management, and continuous improvement.
By mid-July 2026,…
Wilhelm Klein
Quality inspection has always depended on people who know what they are looking at. That remains true as automated visual inspection becomes faster and more widely deployed. The strongest systems don’t try to remove expert judgment completely. They capture it, structure it, and apply it…
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(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw’s new LIBERTAS technology addresses two of the most persistent challenges in metal additive manufacturing (AM): poor downskin surface finish and the need for support structures.
While traditional support structures manage heat and distortion, they also…
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(SPECTRO Analytical Instruments: San Dimas, CA) -- SPECTRO Analytical Instruments has introduced its new, improved SPECTROSCOUT kt portable ED-XRF analyzer for rapid, reliable analysis of precious metals and alloys on the spot.
Incoming inspection, quality monitoring, and hallmarking require fast…
NIST
From our bank accounts to smartphones, all our sensitive data and devices are protected with a technology known as cryptography. Present-day cryptography essentially uses a very challenging set of math problems that are nearly impossible for current computers to solve. These math problems act as a…