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(Mitutoyo America Corp.: Aurora, IL) -- Mitutoyo America Corp., a leading manufacturer of precision metrology instruments and solutions, announces new versions of the IDC, IDF, and IDS series of Digimatic Indicators and products built around these indicators, such as depth and thickness gauges.…
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- As a leading contract manufacturer of dietary supplements, Wellington Foods is focused on producing products that help people live healthy lives. Because this includes ensuring product safety, the company leverages Mettler-Toledo Safeline’s high-performance X37 X-…
Jake Mazulewicz
Do you lead your team to learn primarily from successes, or from failures? Many leaders argue that their teams are just too busy to spend time discussing why a successful project went well. They just wrap up fast, then dive into the next project. So, the unspoken insights and unwritten lessons…
Association of Equipment Manufacturers
With 2022 firmly in the rearview mirror and the new year now underway, it’s clear many of the opportunities and challenges affecting equipment manufacturers today will remain as relevant as ever in the weeks and months ahead. And while it’s a fool’s errand to try to predict exactly how 2023 will…
(Siemens: Plano, TX) -- Digital Industries Software announced the opening of eXplore Live at The Smart Factory@Wichita, an experience center convened by Deloitte that marries an ecosystem of world-leading organizations with business strategy and cutting-edge technology to demonstrate Industry 4.0.…
(NordLocker: Panama City) -- With the human element being the reason behind a whopping 82 percent of data breaches, employees are the weakest link when it comes to organizational cybersecurity. While every employee is essential for watertight security, people from some departments are much more…
Donald J. Wheeler
The shape parameters for a probability model are called skewness and kurtosis. While skewness at least sounds like something we might understand, kurtosis simply sounds like jargon. Here we’ll use some examples to visualize just what happens to a probability model as kurtosis increases. Then we’ll…
Zeeshan Hussain
Every engineer dreams of having a virtual personal assistant like Jarvis, the disembodied voice that carries out Iron Man’s orders. Smart assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa are a step in the right direction, but they can’t help an engineer design a new car. Or can they? Recent progress…
Jennifer Chu
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- True to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted to plateau soon because silicon—the backbone of modern transistors—loses its electrical properties once devices made from this material dip…
(Kivnon: Barcelona, Spain) -- At this year’s ProMat, March 20-23 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Kivnon will showcase the latest addition to its AGV portfolio, its Forklift Pallet Stacker. Kivnon AGVs/AMRs are heavy-duty vehicles that improve safety and process efficiency.
But why is Kivnon’s…
Lisa Apolinski
A not-so-surprising fact, according to HubSpot: 65 percent of consumers state that the experience they encounter on a website is a “very important” factor in recommending a brand. If that statistic’s not enough, HubSpot also reported that 75 percent of consumers expect new technologies to be used…
Adam Zewe
When deep-learning models are deployed in the real world—perhaps to detect financial fraud from credit card activity or identify cancer in medical images—they are often able to outperform humans.
But what exactly are these deep-learning models learning? Does a model trained to spot skin cancer in…
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- The Renishaw Equator system’s patented low-cost design, unique construction, and capability for high-speed comparative gauging for inspection of manufactured parts were developed and proven on the shop floor. This was in collaboration with industry-leading companies…
(Configit: Copenhagen, Denmark) -- Configit has announced that Configit Ace, the market’s leading Configuration Life Cycle Management (CLM) platform, is now available as a cloud service. The vendor-agnostic, cloud-based CLM platform is designed to integrate with any IT system. Configit Ace Cloud…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
Quality and IT are usually kept separate in the corporate world—or considered two different beasts. But in his interview with Shelly LaPointe, senior manager of IT, Quality, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs, at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Quality Digest CEO, Jeff Dewar, discovers a different…
Tony Schmitz
The U.S. Navy is beginning to build 12 top-of-the-line nuclear submarines, with the first one scheduled to be completed by 2027. But it is missing a critical ingredient: many of an estimated 50,000 skilled workers needed to get the job done. It also lacks a reliable supply chain and the…
Shabnam Azimi
Consumers who have a personality that scores high in terms of openness—such as being open to new adventures and intellectually curious—have better success at spotting fake reviews than other personality types, according to our recently published research. Extroverted people, on the other hand, tend…
(GlobalData: London) -- Low-code, no-code (LCNC) platforms are becoming popular as companies are pouring millions into digital transformation to cut down lengthy development cycles and create new applications that meet immediate business needs. In line with this, companies’ discussions around LCNC…
(Datanomix: Nashua, NH) -- Datanomix, maker of the industry’s only automated production intelligence software platform, announced a partnership with Hexagon to offer the Datanomix software solution to its global manufacturing customers. Datanomix is well known for its industry-changing “No Operator…
(SAKOR Technologies: Owosso, MI) -- SAKOR Technologies Inc., a recognized leader in the area of high-performance dynamometer systems, announces the release of the DynoLAB GenV next-generation test automation controller, which allows even a nonprogrammer to implement complex test systems and testing…
Sarah Burlingame
There is more to lean manufacturing than improving a few processes. Sustainable lean success requires a companywide culture of continuous daily improvement. Companies that develop their people to think scientifically, using facts and data to drive their decisions, are often the ones that most…
Michaël Bikard, Keyvan Vakili, Florenta Teodoridis
Collaboration has become an important feature of various industries, particularly when it comes to creative work. This comes amid growing interest in nonhierarchical structures with autonomous teams and the increasing prevalence of open innovation.
The benefits of collaboration—be it leveraging…
(Nikon USA: Melville, NY) --Nikon USA launches not one but three new products, and each bring significant improvements to X-ray software capability and analysis.
The Industrial Metrology Business Unit of Nikon Corp. has introduced a new reconstruction algorithm allowing typical scanning times to…
(Schreiner Pro Tech: Blauvelt, NY) – Schreiner ProTech, a Germany-based global leader in developing and manufacturing innovative functional labels with value-added benefits for the automotive and engineering-based industries, has seen significant growth for a special series of pressure compensation…
Gleb Tsipursky
As increasing numbers of companies are requiring employees to return to the office for 3–5 days per week this fall, they’re running into the buzzsaw of what one of my clients calls the “Four Horsemen of the Required Return to Office”—challenges with resistance, attrition, quiet quitting, and…