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Lauren Priddey
In the process of aerosol filling, precision and safety are crucial, given the complex nature of handling pressurized products and ensuring quality control at every stage. Traditionally, robots have been employed to automate several parts of production. But the introduction of collaborative robots…
Quality Digest
(Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta) -- A research team led by Georgia Tech’s Hailong Chen has developed a low-cost iron chloride cathode for lithium-ion batteries that could radically improve lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), potentially transforming the electric vehicle (EV) market and large-…
Quality Digest
(Sandvik Coromant: Sandviken, Sweden) -- Sandvik Coromant, a leading manufacturer of metal-cutting tools and solutions, has introduced the QS Micro—a new quick-change holding system developed specifically for sliding head machines. It promises exceptional precision, security, repeatability, and…
ISO
(ISO: Geneva) -- Working Group 29 convened its seventh meeting, held remotely via Zoom on Sept. 26 and 27, 2024, to continue with the disposition of remaining comments received on the ISO 9001 committee draft. During the two days, 56 members took part in the meeting, representing 31 national…
Quality Digest
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon, a world leader in digital reality solutions that combine sensors, software, and autonomous technologies, has expanded its collaboration with the automotive manufacturer SEAT S.A., building upon a 25-year partnership working with…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
The opening line on the Systematic QMS website is “Welcome to Systematic Quality Management Systems Inc. Where Service Is Our Passion!”
The warm tone and promise to provide excellent, tailored customer service while delivering a very technical cloud-based quality management system is refreshing…
Creaform
In today’s market, it seems like all 3D scanners have similar specifications, as if manufacturers look at their competitors’ data and use the same numbers. Data sheets, marketing videos, and even product appearances all look comparable, making it difficult to distinguish quality based on technical…
Chris Rush
While clinical trials are the gold standard for generating clinical data to use as evidence of your medical device’s safety and effectiveness, they are by no means the only way to gather clinical evidence.
Real-world data (RWD), which typically come from routine healthcare delivery or…
Quality Digest
(Siemens: Munich) -- Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering, a leading provider of software in the industrial simulation and analysis market. Altair shareholders will receive $113 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10 billion. The offer price…
Mike Figliuolo
Leadership is perilous territory. People’s lives are at stake (sometimes literally). Although avoiding the following seven deadly sins won’t guarantee you’ll be a great leader, succumbing to them will guarantee you’ll have a significant learning moment. (Translation: You’ll fail miserably, but…
Stephanie Ojeda
In the highly regulated world of life sciences, data integrity isn’t optional; it’s essential. The ALCOA principles—attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, and accurate—provide a foundational framework for ensuring data are reliable and trustworthy.
With the rise of digital…
Quality Digest
(IEEE: Piscataway, NJ) -- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, has released the results of “The Impact of Technology in 2025 and Beyond: An IEEE Global Study,” a new…
Quality Digest
(Steel Dynamics Inc.: Fort Wayne, IN) -- Steel Dynamics has recently joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership (GPP). Steel Dynamics was recognized by the EPA as No. 21 on its list of Green Power Partners from the Fortune 500, and No. 33 on its National Top 100 list…
Harish Jose
In this article, I look at the idea of “sweeping-in” in systems approach. Sweeping-in can be described as the process of opening up the inquiry of a system by expanding its boundaries. Philosopher and systems scientist C. West Churchman discussed this process in several works, including Thought and…
Johan Sjöberg
As dairies scramble to meet sustainability targets ahead of the first year of responding to the European Union Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the significant losses in push-out processes have been identified as low-hanging fruit by many companies.
From 2025, listed companies in the…
Quality Digest
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw’s new TEMPUS technology enables users of RenAM 500 series metal additive manufacturing (AM) systems to reduce build times by up to 50%. Using advanced scanning algorithms that sequence the layer data to maximize productivity while maintaining part quality,…
Quality Digest
(AMT: McLean, VA) -- Orders of manufacturing technology, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) report published by AMT (the Association for Manufacturing Technology), totaled $360.8 million in August 2024. These orders for metalworking machinery increased 22.7% from July 2024…
John Tschohl
Speed is one of the most strategic elements a company can use to attract and retain customers and drive its revenues.
What do I mean when I talk about speed? In this context, speed means dramatically reducing the amount of time needed to complete a task by altering factors such as empowerment,…
Adam Zewe
In the 1960s cartoon series The Jetsons, Rosie the robotic maid seamlessly switches from vacuuming the house to cooking dinner to taking out the trash. But in real life, training a general-purpose robot remains a major challenge.
Typically, engineers collect data that are specific to a certain…
Quality Digest
(Taqtile: Seattle) -- Industrial organizations with multiple sites and multiple operations staffed by hundreds and even thousands of employees need to meticulously and efficiently manage the dissemination of work instructions and related data to their deskless staff. The ability to simplify,…
Quality Digest
(PI Americas: New York) -- PI Americas has introduced several new families of motorized linear and rotary stages tailored for precision automation, motion control, and positioning applications in the photonics, semiconductor, imaging, and metrology industry. All product lines are powered by…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that five organizations will receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s only presidential award for performance excellence. Among the recipients…
Quality Digest
(Rockwell: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, has launched its connected worker solution from Plex by Rockwell Automation. These industry-leading capabilities were developed to help users enhance productivity…
Adam Zewe
Despite their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) are far from perfect. These artificial intelligence models sometimes “hallucinate” by generating incorrect or unsupported information in response to a query.
Due to this hallucination problem, an LLM’s responses are often verified…
Sandy Ressler
Wilhelm Weber gets the distinction of having the unit of magnetic flux, the weber (Wb), named in his honor. Magnetic flux measures the total magnetic field that passes through a surface.
(Wondering how to pronounce weber? Hear all about it from one of our researchers.)
The amount of magnetic flux…
