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(Artec 3D: Luxembourg) -- Artec 3D, a global developer and manufacturer of professional 3D hardware and software, has launched Artec Twins, a new platform for working with massive 3D environments at a previously impossible scale and speed.
Artec 3D has spent 20 years building precision into 3D…
Megan Wallin-Kerth, Vick Vaishnavi
Octave is taking AI-driven innovation seriously: That much was clear from its OctaveLive keynote this summer in Austin, Texas, where the focus remained on amplifying human capability as well as hiring more people, not fewer, to maintain quality.
Vick Vaishnavi, the head of Octave Reliance, took…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and their collaborators received a 2026 Award for Composites Excellence (ACE) Award for developing a large-format, 3D-printed, water-soluble polymer mandrel for manufacturing lightweight…
Stephanie Ojeda
A longtime raw-material supplier exits the market, and a manufacturer needs a replacement quickly. The new supplier completes a questionnaire, receives approval, and begins shipping. Months later, delivery slips and defects increase. A broad audit produces a passing score, but the problems continue…
FARO CREAFORM
If you engage in a game of word association, chances are when you hear the term Formula 1, responses will be terms associated with speed: race car, acceleration, fast, momentum, velocity...
But as much as Formula 1 is about speed, it’s also about controlling and channeling that speed with…
Quality Digest
(Danaher: Washington, DC) -- Danaher Corp. announces plans to launch its first AI-powered autonomous lab, designed to help researchers develop custom antibodies and other molecular tools faster and more efficiently.
Expected to operate at scale in early 2027, the lab will combine artificial…
Neeta Verma
Manufacturing Day fell on Oct. 2 this year. Manufacturers opened their doors and showed the public what modern manufacturing looks like, and, hopefully, built some interest in manufacturing careers.
Visitors saw robots, sensors, software, and connected production systems. What they may not have…
CheeYee Tang, Robert Stea, John Wiltberger
Recent cyberattacks on U.S. water and wastewater systems (WWS) are highlighting the escalating threat to our nation’s critical infrastructure and the practical challenges of securing it.
These incidents underscore an important challenge: The connectivity that utilities depend upon must be designed…
Quality Digest
(Mitutoyo: Dresden, Germany) -- Mitutoyo, a global leader in precision measurement and metrology, is strengthening its commitment to the semiconductor industry with the opening of a new Semiconductor Competence Center in Dresden, Germany.
Located at the heart of Silicon Saxony, one of Europe’s…
Donald J. Wheeler
When a time series displays a pattern that repeats itself periodically it is said to have seasonal effects. The word seasonal may apply to days, weeks, months, quarters, or any pattern that recurs regularly throughout the data. While these seasonal effects will complicate our analysis, their…
Quality Digest
(Ott In-Situ: Fort Collins, CO) -- Ott In-Situ announces the release of the Deployment Report, a new feature of In-Situ’s VuSitu mobile app. The Deployment Report automatically compiles instrument settings, site details, and field notes into a single, consolidated record the moment a technician…
Akhilesh Gulati
Before something important leaves the ground, someone has to be willing to ask an uncomfortable question: What could make this fail?
That question takes on a different meaning when the “something” is a spacecraft.
During the development of NASA’s X-43A, an experimental hypersonic aircraft, the…
Quality Digest
(Interplay Learning: Austin, TX) --Interplay Learning, a leader in immersive learning for the skilled trades and industrial crafts, announces the launch of Skill Verification, a simulation-based assessment tool that enables organizations to evaluate an individual’s ability to perform trades-…
Quality Digest
(ANSI: New York) -- Additive manufacturing (AM) is changing how the world creates, from heart valves to jet engine components. Standards are what allow these innovations to move from prototype to production safely and at scale.
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and America Makes…
Angie Basiouny
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, all the dithering about remote work stopped virtually overnight. Working from home wasn’t perfect, but people made it work.
At first, remote employees were triumphant as they checked off their personal and professional to-do lists from the comfort…
Quality Digest
(Hexagon: London) -- New data from an international study by Hexagon, a global leader in measurement technologies, suggests the world’s first “robot generation” has arrived.
Across nine countries, children are growing up with fundamentally different expectations of robotics than today’s adults,…
Harish Jose
In this article I’ll be looking at the shape of this question regarding complexity that comes from Plato. In the Euthyphro dialogue, Socrates asks whether a thing is pious because the gods love it, or the gods love it because it is pious. If piety is defined by the gods’ love, it has no ground of…
Quality Digest
(Dürr: Southfield, MI) -- Dürr is expanding its dispensing technology portfolio with the EcoMeter XS, a compact microdispensing unit that automatically applies very small quantities of adhesives, sealants, and other high-viscosity materials. The system primarily serves manufacturers of battery and…
Paras Kharwal
On Sept. 16, 2026, ISO published the sixth edition of ISO 9001. Within days, the summaries arrived: what changed in Clause 5, what the new Annex A says, how the 2024 climate amendment carries forward. They’re useful, but they answer the questions certified organizations ask least often. The…
Davide Bertoletti
Adding a control element to any system may seem like an easy path, even a necessary one. Redundancy reassures the stakeholders and the auditors, and it might become a sales pitch for the customers. Removing such elements is, on the other hand, more challenging; it’s an effort that requires…
Quality Digest
(Enviropass Expertise Inc.: Mount Royal, QC) -- Enviropass Expertise, a Canadian environmental product-compliance consultancy and testing laboratory, has published findings from its January–August 2026 project portfolio, examining practical compliance challenges involving RoHS, REACH, PFAS,…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has adopted the Paris Statement, reaffirming the role of international standards in supporting global efforts to build greater resilience, adapt to climate change, and protect nature.
The ISO Annual Meeting 2026 was hosted…
Timothy Malone
Most shops accept a gauge the same way. They run a gauge repeatability and reproducibility (gauge R&R) study with 10 parts, three appraisers, and three trials. Get a %GRR under 30. File the report and move on. The AIAG criteria are familiar: Under 10% is generally acceptable, 10%–30% may be…
Quality Digest
(AI4RVI Inc.: Chester, NJ) -- AI4RVI has announced the launch of Edgevision, a next-generation remote visual inspection (RVI) system built to deliver true high-definition imaging of boiler, heat exchanger, and other tube interior conditions. The system was rolled out at the American Society for…
Declan Fitzsimons, Jennifer Petriglieri, Gianpiero Petriglieri
M ore than 80% of restructuring efforts in firms fail. Most explanations focus on poor execution or bad strategy. Our research points to something more uncomfortable: Embarking on organizational transformation isn’t always a rational response to a business challenge but can be a defensive reaction…