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Mike Figliuolo
Projects go off the rails all the time. Some statistics I’ve seen say only one in eight projects can truly be declared successful.
Why are we so horrible at executing projects, especially when we have all these “tried and true” project management methodologies?
There are seven deadly killers of…
Quality Digest
(Datanomix: Nashua, NH) -- A programmer finishes a setup, the toolpath is proven, the print is attached, the setup sheet is written, and the NC program is generated. Then the files often move through a network drive, an email, or a USB stick, and nobody can say for certain which revision is running…
CANEA
Establishing a long-term improvement effort is one of the best investments an organization can make. This is because almost all industries and businesses today are in, or facing, a major digital transformation where business models, services, and working methods are rapidly changing. To succeed in…
Quality Digest
(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- Dust, moisture, and high-pressure cleaning place high demands on cameras used for industrial process monitoring.
With the new uEye SFA, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is expanding its uEye Live monitoring range with an especially robust model designed for…
Oliver Trabert
Manufacturing in the U.S. is seeing its fastest growth in more than four years, driven in large part by rising demand for AI infrastructure. That expansion is arriving alongside severe supply shortages and higher input costs.
Manufacturers look to AI to increase capacity and operate more…
Adam Zewe
(MIT News: Cambridge, MA) -- Researchers have created a new technique that accurately and rapidly matches X-rays captured during surgery with a patient’s preoperative 3D medical scan. This method could make it easier for clinicians to precisely pilot minimally invasive surgical tools, leading to…
Cornelia C. Walther
When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, it arrived as a research preview: a conversational system that could answer follow-up questions, draft fluent text, and give millions of people their first direct experience of generative AI. The early mood was experimental. People tested it, teased…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Our everyday life is flooded with photons, the quantum building blocks of light. For cutting-edge technology, from quantum computing to deep-tissue imaging, detecting every single photon counts.
“Photons carry information,” says Kristen Parzuchowski, a postdoctoral…
Quality Digest
(Maintain CMMS: London) -- Maintain CMMS is a web-based computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) platform built to help engineering teams replace spreadsheets and paper records with a single, practical system.
What the platform covers: • Work orders and technician planning• Sites, assets…
Kendall Kunz
On March 3, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to Tentamus India Private Limited. The inspection it describes started the way most do, with one difference. At the initiation of the inspection, the agency’s investigator observed the firm attempting to remove…
Candace Orbaugh
At first glance, the next version of RC14001, the management standard for the chemical industry, looks like a simplification. In practice, it gives organizations more flexibility but also more responsibility. The revised standard no longer hands organizations a predefined list of stakeholder groups…
Quality Digest
(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- IDS Imaging Development Systems (IDS) will showcase new camera platforms, technologies, and innovation projects for industrial image processing at VISION 2026, Booth 8C60, Messe Stuttgart, Oct. 6–8, 2026, in Stuttgart, Germany.
Under the theme “Trends. Innovations.…
Mike Figliuolo
Board meetings are a total pain. They can also be some of the most powerful get-togethers for your company. The difference lies in how you approach the meeting itself.
Before you say, “I never present to the board,” and stop reading, allow me to expand the definition of a board meeting. A board…
Quality Digest
(Optical Gaging Products: Rochester, NY) -- Optical Gaging Products (OGP), a leading manufacturer of precision optical and multisensor metrology systems, has introduced SmartScope E18, a high-capacity benchtop video measurement system that delivers fully automatic three-axis measurement performance…
Adam Zewe
Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle. A human driver or passenger may need to react rapidly to prevent a collision.
To help…
Lexi Sharkov
They may seem simple, but standard operating procedures (SOPs) are surprisingly tricky. On the surface, they describe how a specific process is carried out at your organization. Pretty straightforward, right?
In reality, there are a lot of requirements for writing a good SOP, and auditors have a…
Quality Digest
(Alva Industries: Trondheim, Norway) -- Alva Industries (ALVA), a manufacturer of frameless motors, and owner and creator of FiberPrinting technology, brought its interactive slotless vs. slotted motor technology demo to WoTS 2026 in Utrecht, Netherlands.
The hands-on demo allowed visitors to…
Donald J. Wheeler
In order to do business, we have to use predictions of various sorts. These range from seat-of-the-pants guesses to the results of sophisticated modeling. In every case, the key to effective forecasting is to understand the uncertainty in the forecast. Ways to do this are the subject of this…
Quality Digest
(Flexxbotics: Boston) -- At IMTS 2026 in Chicago, Flexxbotics, the autonomous manufacturing platform company, announced the latest release of the Flexxbotics platform and a set of solutions designed to help manufacturers increase production capacity, improve yields, and reduce downtime by scaling…
Quality Digest
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, MI) -- In September at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, Marposs showcased its Visual Tool Setter (VTS), a noncontact optical tool measurement system designed to provide fast, precise, and reliable tool inspection directly on machining centers and milling machines.
Built on CCD-based…
Stephanie Ojeda
A quality team’s supplier toolbox is deep. Supplier questionnaires, PPAP, supplier scorecards, incoming inspection, audits, corrective action—the list goes on.
In my years of experience as a quality leader, the challenge I see is matching each one to the right stage in the supplier process and the…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for a special signal—the unique pattern of gamma rays emitted by specific radioactive elements. However, some of these elements also emit X-rays in the same energy…
Joshua W.J. Brown
A measurement isn’t only a number. It’s a number obtained by an instrument in a physical state.
That distinction becomes critical when the instrument moves, bends, conforms to a surface, or relies on software to correct its own geometry. A rigid gauge can often treat its working geometry as a…
Sofia Brown
Finding something underground is one thing. Giving a project team information they can actually use is another.
A technician might pick up a signal with an electromagnetic locator. A ground-penetrating radar scan might show an anomaly running through a proposed work area. An old drawing might…
Quality Digest
(METTLER TOLEDO: Columbus, OH) -- The METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection Group will introduce its M50 R-Series AdvancedLine metal detectors to North America at Booth 2122 at Pack Expo, Oct. 18–21, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Jaison Anand, METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection market manager…