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Jones Loflin
This past weekend I engaged in one of my favorite activities as a beekeeper. I got to catch a swarm of bees.
If you haven’t seen it before, it’s wild. About half of the bees leave with a queen and set up somewhere temporarily while they’re looking for their new permanent home. In the case of this…
Quality Digest
(EMAG: Farmington Hills, MI) -- Manufacturers across North America face growing pressure to increase output while controlling costs and managing a shrinking labor pool. EMAG’s new MSC 5 DUO twin-spindle CNC lathe meets these demands head-on, combining simultaneous machining, fully integrated…
Jennifer Chu
Hearing aids, mouth guards, dental implants, and other highly tailored structures are often products of 3D printing. These structures are typically made via vat photopolymerization—a form of 3D printing that uses patterns of light to shape and solidify a resin, one layer at a time.
The process…
Quality Digest
(Imaging Development Systems: Obersulm, Germany) -- Whether in quality assurance, medical technology, or automation, industrial image processing places high demands on precision and reliability, sometimes under difficult conditions.
At the end of June 2025, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is…
Quality Digest
(NAPT: Eagan, MN) -- The National Association for Proficiency Testing (NAPT), a trusted name in the metrology community for providing administration, development, software tools, and support for interlaboratory comparisons, has announced its new Proficiency Testing Risk Analysis Module, a…
Scott Ginsberg
When quality failures go public, it’s not just your product on the line—it’s also your reputation, compliance status, and workforce morale.
From product recalls to OSHA citations, recent manufacturing disasters reveal a brutal truth: The real cost of outdated documentation isn’t just inefficiency—…
Quality Digest
(Artec 3D: Luxembourg) -- A global 3D scanning leader, Artec 3D has announced a partnership with LuxProvide, the organization behind the MeluXina supercomputer.
Also located in Luxembourg, MeluXina is capable of carrying out billions of calculations per second, making it one of Europe’s most…
Mike Figliuolo
For as many words as we use, we’re terrible communicators. Voicemails are jumbled streams of consciousness. Emails are “text bombs” with no rhyme or reason. Presentations are nothing but crippling piles of slides. But don’t worry—here are three rules of three to make your communications clearer,…
Quality Digest
(CMS: High Ridge, MO) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society board of directors has announced the establishment of a charitable arm of CMS, the Coordinate Metrology Society Foundation.
As an IRS-approved 5019c) (3) nonprofit organization, the foundation will raise and distribute funds to support…
Gleb Tsipursky
Remote work has become a game-changer for older individuals with disabilities, offering a solution that not only improves their employment prospects but also brings substantial economic benefits, according to a new study from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
Before the…
Quality Digest
(RobotLAB: Dallas) -- In his illuminating new book, Our Robotics Future (self-published), Elad Inbar delivers a powerful road map for business owners and decision-makers eager to thrive in the age of automation. Packed with sharp insights and real-world success stories across multiple industries,…
Seb Murray
In Formula One racing, slower drivers are expected to move aside when a faster car laps them. But some don’t give way so easily. They might wait for a spot that costs them less time, delay just enough to stay in their rhythm, or even make the faster driver fight harder to get past, throwing them…
Quality Digest
(BLM GROUP USA: Novi, MI) -- BLM GROUP USA has announced the addition of a new tube bender to its E-TURN line of machines, capable of right- and left-hand, in-process bending: the E-TURN63, a machine with the capacity to bend tubes up to 2.5 in. (63 mm) in diameter. This all-electric tube bender is…
InnovMetric
Humanetics is the world’s largest manufacturer of anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs), commonly known as crash test dummies. The group has more than 1,000 employees across 21 facilities located around the world, with global corporate headquarters in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Humanetics is…
Quality Digest
(AMT: Orion, MI) -- Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), a FANUC Level V authorized system integrator and a leader in robotics and automation engineering and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, has introduced a plug-and-play collaborative palletizing…
Conformance1
Amid uncertainty in manufacturing, AI adoption, labor market fluctuations, and salary disparities across industries and geographic regions, quality professional compensation can be difficult to calculate. Without current job-level salary benchmarks, quality professionals, from technicians to…
Quality Digest
(EV Group: St. Florian, Austria) -- EV Group (EVG), a leading provider of innovative process solutions and expertise serving semiconductor designs and chip integration schemes, has introduced the LITHOSCALE XT maskless exposure (MLE) system, the industry’s first true high-throughput/high-resolution…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Recent advancements at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) show that 3D-printed metal molds offer a faster, more cost-effective and flexible approach to producing large composite components for mass-produced vehicles than traditional tooling…
Rene Ymzon
When manufacturing tolerances shrink to the micron, and part geometries become increasingly complex, the margin for measurement error disappears. In this space—where even thermal drift or mechanical vibration can invalidate results—motion control becomes not just a component but a cornerstone of…
William A. Levinson
According to the U.S. News & World Report article “FDA Warns Sanofi of Manufacturing Irregularities at Key Facility” (Jan. 23, 2025), the pharmaceutical company Sanofi received a U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning letter “stating that FDA inspectors found irregularities with the facility…
Quality Digest
(Mahr: Providence, RI) -- Mahr Inc., a leading provider of dimensional metrology solutions, announced its Mar4D PLQ 4200 line of cylinder coordinate measuring machines. This innovative solution offers workpiece flexibility and multisensory technology, making it ideal for a wide range of…
Quality Digest
(VIAVI: Chandler, AZ) – VIAVI Solutions has launched its second-generation RSR transcoder, created to maintain operational capability in GPS/GNSS-denied, degraded, or disrupted space operational environments (D3SOE).
Globally, incidents of GPS and GNSS jamming and spoofing have surged as these…
Bryan Christiansen
The cornerstone of efficient industrial and facility management, maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) cover all activities related to equipment maintenance, procurement, upkeep, and inventory management. This includes spare parts, consumables, lubricants, cleaning supplies, safety equipment,…
Donald J. Wheeler
For many hundreds of years, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” has summarized the predominant approach to process operation. From the physician’s admonition to do no harm, to the slightly more positive aphorism that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, there is a common theme of differentiating…
Quality Digest
(TempGenius: Landover, MD) -- Maintaining optimal environmental conditions is critical for laboratories, hospitals, and research facilities. TempGenius, a trusted provider of temperature monitoring solutions, offers advanced lab temperature monitor systems designed to deliver real-time data, reduce…
