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(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…
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…
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…
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(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…
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(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…
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(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…
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(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…
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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…
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(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…
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…
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(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…
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(Sunnen Products Co.: St. Louis) -- Sunnen Products Co., a global leader in high-precision honing, bore sizing, and engine rebuilding equipment, will showcase its latest manufacturing solutions at IMTS 2026, Sept. 14–19, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Attendees are invited to visit Sunnen at…
Brant Engelhart
Poor quality rarely announces itself as a single, contained problem. In manufacturing environments, it may first appear as a rejected batch, a scrapped component, an unexpected line stoppage, or a customer complaint that requires investigation. These visible failures matter, and most manufacturers…
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(QT9 Software: Aurora, IL) – QT9 Software, a global technology leader in quality management software, ERP, and MRP solutions, is highlighting QT9 QMS, a robust quality management platform designed to empower organizations in life sciences, medical device, and biotechnology manufacturing with…
Neeta Verma
The European Commission’s latest Joint Actions on Compliance of Products (JACOP) project offers a useful starting point for understanding why products can still fail environmental compliance checks even when manufacturers have established compliance programs.
Published in June 2026, the JACOP…
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(ABM Equipment: Vancouver, WA) -- System integration firm ABM Equipment has published a new industry guide comparing nearly every X-ray OEM on the market.
The guide is designed to help processors land on the most practical equipment by comparing factors that determine performance, usability, and…
Keith Stouffer, Michael Galler
Recent cyberattacks highlight the growing threat to operational technology (OT) used in critical infrastructure. Whether you work for an infrastructure owner/operator or are a consumer of an infrastructure service, recent events have made it clear that cybersecurity is an important factor in…
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(Physik Instrumente: Shrewsbury, MA) -- Physik Instrumente (PI), a global leader in precision motion control and nanopositioning, offers ring-type PZT actuators for applications requiring fast, nanometer-scale motion while maintaining an unobstructed central opening.
Higher force and longer travel…
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(Conexiom: Vancouver, BC) -- Conexiom has announced Conexiom Relay, an AI-native product that’s a fundamental part of its Trusted Transaction Platform for driving greater customer loyalty and margin by automating order and invoice life cycles.
Conexiom addresses the issue that much of a company’s…
Josh Peterson
Quality management system software helps life sciences organizations manage documents, training, quality events, change controls, audits, and other regulated processes in one controlled environment.
Most electronic quality management systems (eQMS) offer some version of these core capabilities.…
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(ZEISS: Maple Grove, MN) -- In Booth 134302 at IMTS 2026 (Sept. 14–19, 2026, at McCormick Place, Chicago), ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions will demonstrate how trusted measurement data help catch quality issues earlier, make decisions faster, and keep manufacturing moving with confidence.…