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Dusty Alexander
Ask anyone in manufacturing or in a project-driven company who has the most difficult job, and without hesitation they will say: the scheduler/planner.
It’s no wonder. Foolproof scheduling is critical to the smooth operation of most companies. Yet, planning and scheduling the workflow is akin to…
Quality Digest
(Detection Technology: Espoo, Finland) -- Detection Technology, a global leader in X-ray detector solutions, strives to meet increasing inspection and quality assurance requirements in the defense industry with its proven and expanded X-Panel XL series of extra-large X-ray flat panel detectors.…
QT9 Software
For years, many medical device manufacturers approached U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspections through a familiar lens: Prepare documents, review subsystem requirements, rehearse likely questions, and demonstrate compliance against a known framework. That approach was shaped by the…
Quality Digest
(Omnex: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Omnex has announced its next webinar: Automotive SPICE Updates: Key Changes in the Upcoming PAM 4.1 and ASPICE Guidelines 3rd Edition.
Date and time: July 9, 2026, 11:00 a.m. Eastern
Speaker: Vesna Djordjevic
Stay aligned with the upcoming Automotive SPICE 4.1 and ASPICE…
Tobias Lurk
ISO has set its focus on revising three key management system standards this year. It started with ISO 14001, which covers environmental management and was published on April 15, 2026. ISO 9001 for quality management will follow in the fall. For ISO 45001, the occupational health and safety…
Quality Digest
(Platinum Tooling: Prospect Heights, IL) -- Platinum Tooling Technologies Inc., exclusive importer of Heimatec live tools and angle heads, will display in Booth 432201 of the 2026 International Manufacturing Technology Show at Chicago’s McCormick Place, Sept. 14–19.
The products are designed to…
Quality Digest
(Jergens: Cleveland) -- Jergens is bringing its many CNC machining innovations to Booth 431910 at this year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago’s McCormick Place, Sept. 14–19, 2026.
Highlighting cycle-time reduction, maximum part fixturing, precision, repeatability, and…
Bryan Balch, Quality Digest
With Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence’s recent announcement of its inclusion in the NASCAR Competition Partner Program, details on the strategic partnership have emerged. By cementing this tie, the two companies can expand a professional relationship that will enable them to focus on precision,…
Prasanth Sambaraju
The Weibull distribution is a continuous probability distribution often used in reliability analysis to model time-to-failure and product lifespans.
It has applications in engineering, medicine, energy, and insurance. It’s also good at describing survival statistics, such as survival times after…
Quality Digest
(NWPX Infrastructure: Vancouver, WA) -- NWPX Infrastructure, a leading manufacturer of water-related infrastructure products, announced the successful completion of the first field installation of its patent-pending Permalok Radial Bending Joint, a breakthrough technology that allows steel casing…
Quality Digest
(UnitX: Milpitas, CA) -- UnitX, a pioneer in AI-powered visual inspection for manufacturing, is launching DeteX, a rapid-deploy AI-powered smart camera. It is purpose-built to eliminate the manufacturing vision gap and give every production line the power to reduce scrap and stop defect escapes…
Hilke Plassmann, Paulo Albuquerque
A food company spends months and significant budget on consumer research before launching a new product. The survey scores are strong, so the store managers stock it. Six months later, the product is quietly pulled from the shelves. The consumers who said they would buy it didn’t.
This pattern—…
Quality Digest
(Venus Aerospace: Houston) -- Venus Aerospace has been selected for the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Technology Pioneers cohort, joining 100 early-stage companies recognized this year for their potential to reshape industries and address global challenges.
Many of the technologies expected to shape…
Luca Ziveri
A line operator in a chemical packaging plant notices a torque inconsistency on a capping head. The deviation is within tolerance on the individual reading, but the operator has seen this pattern before; it usually precedes a run of out-of-spec caps over the next two shifts. He would normally flag…
Greg Rankin
As pharmaceutical manufacturers push toward lower detection limits, tighter impurity thresholds, and faster development cycles, elemental analysis has become a more critical part of quality and compliance.
Regulatory frameworks such as U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) <232>, USP <233>, and…
Quality Digest
(WFL: Linz, Austria) -- The defense industry is entering a new industrial era. Faced with increasing production requirements, geopolitical tensions, and the need to reshore strategic manufacturing capabilities within Europe, manufacturers must now produce faster, locally, and with complete process…
Quality Digest
(NewTek Sensors: Pennsauken, NJ) -- NewTek linear position sensors support the space industry in both flight vehicles and ground-based testing applications, delivering precise position measurements in mission-critical environments. Engineered to perform under challenging conditions, including…
Chip Bell
When Odysseus went off to fight the Trojan War, as reported by Homer in The Odyssey, he didn’t take along his wet-behind-the-ears son, who was destined to be heir to his throne.
Concerned about who would give his son “kinging skills,” he chose an old family friend, Mentor, to be Telemachus’…
Neerav Singh
Audit week has a way of revealing gaps that stay invisible during normal operations. Your methods are sound, and your data look clean. Then the assessor asks for the calibration certificate on the torque wrench used last Tuesday, and someone heads off to find it.
That small gap, a record that…
Quality Digest
(Waygate Technologies: Huerth, Germany) -- Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and global leader in nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions for industrial and energy infrastructure inspection, has announced the launch of Krautkrämer PAXYS, a portable phased array (PA) ultrasound scanner…
Quality Digest
(AMT: Orion, MI) -- Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), a leader in automation engineering specializing in advanced material handling, end-of-line solutions, on-demand engineering services, and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics, exhibited at…
Stephanie Ojeda
In the larger organizations I worked for as a quality leader, supplier auditing was almost always calendar-driven. Sometimes supplier audits happened once a year; in other places, they might happen twice. I’d build the schedule to accommodate that, and the system would just run.
Over time, I…
Quality Digest
(Titomic USA Inc.: Huntsville, AL) -- Titomic USA Inc. is marking a year of remarkable growth, strategic partnerships, and continued advancement of its Titomic Kinetic Fusion (TKF) cold spray additive manufacturing, coatings, and repairs technology across the United States and globally. This is a…
Aity Ritesh Raj
FDA inspectors don’t just check your records. They bring their own thermometer.
And when their reading doesn’t match six months of logged data from the sensor on your cold room wall, the honest explanation is one nobody wants to say: The monitoring system was compliant; the measurement just wasn’t…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have created a new tool that can catch and correct potential mistakes in real time while 3D-printing large plastic parts.
The automated system could help U.S. manufacturers produce large, custom parts with…