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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,…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Quality Digest
(Nikon: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Metrology announces the new Digital Sight 100 digital camera for microscopes. The camera can be used in combination with the full lineup of industrial microscopes and measuring microscopes.
The Digital Sight 100 offers high-definition, high-level color…
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…
ISO
In today’s digital age, the question isn’t whether you’ll experience a cybersecurity attack, but when this might occur. Cybercriminals strike when you least expect it, with devastating consequences for your day-to-day operations. If your organization is lucky, it can block the attacker and limit…
Quality Digest
(MachineMetrics: Easthampton, MA) -- MachineMetrics, a leading production intelligence platform, announces the launch of Max AI, the new AI-powered intelligence layer for its next-generation MES platform. Max AI unifies data from machines, ERP, and tribal knowledge to deliver a revolutionary…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a report identifying strategies for developing a more efficient, sustainable, and resilient U.S. metals-processing infrastructure, where metals are used and reused more efficiently throughout the…
Bennie Caldwell
In manufacturing, failure isn’t an option—it’s a liability. A defective part or a missed delivery triggers a chain reaction that can disrupt schedules, undermine trust, and drain resources.
So when someone suggests a strategy with the word fail in it, skepticism is understandable, because…
Quality Digest
(Zhejiang Guozi Robotics Co.: Hangzhou, China) -- Recently, Hithium’s manufacturing plant in Texas has achieved “mass production and delivery.” Guozi Robotics provided the factory with a full-scenario integrated, flexible production and logistics-handling solution that supports the construction of…
Quality Digest
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw’s full range of RenAM 500 series of metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems and TEMPUS technology are now integrated into the 3DEXPERIENCE virtual machine from Dassault Systèmes. Users of the 3DEXPERIENCE DELMIA powder-bed machine programmer role can now…