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Laura Lindsay
Consider an AI tool that delivers consistently accurate results and demonstrates impressive capabilities. If the people who are expected to rely on it can’t understand how decisions are reached or challenge outcomes that appear wrong, why would they trust it with an important decision? Would an…
Quality Digest
(Caterpillar: Irving, TX) -- As industries face growing labor shortages and increasing productivity demands, Caterpillar is collaborating with FieldAI to advance physical AI, autonomy, and robotics that help job sites and factories operate more safely and more efficiently. By turning real-time…
Quality Digest
(CADEXSOFT: Tallinn, Estonia) -- CADEXSOFT announces the release of Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.5, a CAD SDK for developers building quoting and MaaS platforms, with DFM checks, native B-Rep, feature recognition, and web visualization.
Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.5 highlights:• Sheet metal updates•…
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Michele Gelfand has studied and taught negotiation for years. A professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, she sees negotiation as a skill that’s imperative for everyone to learn. “It’s not something we’re born with,” she says. “It’s something we learn over time…
Srinivasan Varadarajan
I’ve now watched every quality management concept I learned during my professional career unfold in my granddaughter’s first five months of life.
As I observed her feeding habits, sleeping routines, health monitoring, and interactions with her environment, I found remarkable similarities to…
Quality Digest
(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- IDS Imaging Development Systems is expanding its 3D portfolio with Nion, an industrial time-of-flight (TOF) camera featuring 1.2-megapixel resolution and integrated depth processing.
It provides high-resolution and temporally stable depth information at 30 fps, even…
Mani Chandra Raparla
Walk any well-run plant and you’ll find statistical process control doing quiet, faithful work: control charts on the critical dimensions; capability studies before a line change; gage R&R before anyone trusts a measurement; out-of-control signals investigated; root causes found; corrective…
Quality Digest
(Trimedx: Indianapolis) -- Trimedx has introduced new agentic AI capabilities within the TMX Protect platform that help health systems more quickly identify, prioritize, and address medical-device cybersecurity risks, reducing remediation time for cybersecurity projects by 75% on average.
The new…
Quality Digest
(Artec 3D: Luxembourg) -- Artec 3D, a global 3D scanning hardware and software leader, has announced the launch of Artec Neo. The first tolerance-driven 3D scanner, it unlocks a new approach to inspection and reverse engineering.
Artec Neo delivers metrology-grade accuracy of 0.025 mm and…
Quality Digest
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has announced the launch of ISO 9001:2026—“Quality management systems—Requirements,” the new edition of the world’s leading quality management system standard.
Trusted by more than one million organizations worldwide, the…
Henry Nonnemaker
When doctors need to deliver precise doses of medicine on a strict schedule, they often administer it intravenously. Intravenous drug delivery methods need to carefully control the flow of medicine into a patient. Knowing the medicine’s flow rate—or the volume of fluid flowing into the patient each…
Quality Digest
(ForwardX Robotics: Beijing) -- As manufacturers increasingly automate existing facilities, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can improve internal material flow without major infrastructure changes. However, brownfield environments present challenges beyond robot navigation. Existing layouts, traffic…
Quality Digest
(senswork: Johnson City, TN) -- senswork will showcase innovative solutions for industrial quality control at IMTS 2026, Sept. 14–19, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Two exhibits at Booth 135470 in the German Pavilion will demonstrate how AI-powered machine vision and high-resolution 3D inspection…
Sam Somerville
Trust is the foundation of business and commerce. Every transaction, partnership, and working relationship depends, to some degree, on confidence that others will deliver on their commitments.
In business, we often focus on customer trust that products and services will meet their needs and…
Quality Digest
(1factory: Milpitas, CA) -- Most manufacturers run quality in two disconnected worlds. Compliance lives in one: procedures, training records, corrective actions, and audit documentation scattered across binders, shared drives, and stand-alone document systems. Shop-floor quality lives in the other…
Rick Heilshorn
Manufacturing has a people problem, but not in the way we usually talk about it.
We talk about the skilled-labor shortage. We talk about retirements. We talk about doing more with fewer people. Usually those are treated as separate problems.
They aren’t. Rather, they are compounding.
Deloitte and…
Quality Digest
(Futuri: Austin, TX) -- Generative AI has collapsed the time required to build a convincing prototype, and with it the perceived cost of replacing purchased software with an internal build. Futuri’s caution to business leaders is that the prototype was never the expensive part: A demo assembled in…
Neeta Verma
Extreme heat, drought, wildfires, floods, record-low rivers, and rising energy demand have defined much of the summer of 2026. But for businesses, the important story isn’t simply that weather records are being broken. It’s where those physical changes enter the operating system of a company.
A…
Quality Digest
(EV Group: Sankt Florian am Inn, Austria) -- EV Group (EVG), a leading provider of innovative process solutions and expertise serving leading-edge and future semiconductor designs and chip integration schemes, is actively engaged with customers and partners within the rapidly evolving co-packaged…
Quality Digest
(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…
Susan Robertson
Six weeks after a global manufacturer’s leadership team approved a group of promising new ideas, someone asked for an update. There wasn’t one.
Not because the ideas had been rejected. Not because priorities had changed. Not because anyone had decided innovation no longer mattered. The projects…
Quality Digest
(PMI U.S.: Stamford, CT) – PMI U.S. (the Philip Morris International family of companies) has released “Bridging the Gap: Reimagining the Employer-University Relationship in the Age of AI,” a new white paper examining the growing disconnect between higher education and workforce needs—and outlining…
Quality Digest
(MSM Solutions: Memphis, TN) -- MSM Solutions, a premier solution partner and registered ISV within the Zebra Technologies PartnerConnect Program, announces the launch of PortalTrack Print IQ, a software platform that transforms industrial label printers into intelligent inspection stations. Using…
Akhilesh Gulati
The real test of a quality system isn’t what happens when everything works. It’s what happens when something doesn’t.
Recently, two of my cameras failed. They were newer versions of models whose older predecessors still worked, so I contacted the manufacturer to report the problem.
I expected a…
Adam Zewe
Researchers at MIT have overcome a major challenge holding back the real-world deployment of microwave quantum technologies for advanced signal processing and secure communications.
The team developed a scalable platform that generates pairs of highly correlated radio frequency waves without bulky…