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(Momentum Technologies: Carrollton, TX) -- Momentum Technologies, a critical minerals refining and recovery company, has announced a series of milestones. Using its proprietary MSX technology, the company produced some of the purest rare earths ever reported at its demonstration plant in Carrollton…
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(Wall Colmonoy: Madison Heights, MI) -- Wall Colmonoy announces the launch of its new Alloy Products Surfacing Alloys microsite, a dedicated digital resource designed to provide customers with easier access to product information and technical resources.
The microsite is the third in a series of…
Darren Goh
Ask anyone who’s bought a handheld 3D scanner with optical tracking system in the last few years about what sold them, and you’ll hear about speed. More points per second. Larger scanning areas. Faster data capture.
Those improvements matter. But when you look at the entire inspection process,…
Rob Moorey
The healthcare technology management (HTM) industry is facing a looming labor shortage and must attract enough skilled professionals to meet future demand. The industry is grappling with an aging workforce, a shrinking traditional talent pool, and increasingly complex medical equipment. Healthcare…
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(Evident: Needham, MA) -- Evident introduces its newly enhanced SLIDEVIEW VS200 universal slide scanner, a comprehensive platform designed to help life science researchers reveal more biology in every scan. VS200 version 5.1 introduces 10-color fluorescence imaging and unmatched observation options…
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(Atheer: Santa Clara, CA) -- Atheer, a leader in AI-powered work execution software for asset-intensive enterprises, has announced the general availability of AiR Intelligence, the industry’s first operational intelligence layer for industrial enterprises and their frontline workers.
Industrial…
Vick Vaishnavi
The complexity of today’s manufacturing operations and ever-evolving digital disruptions, including the biggest of all, artificial intelligence (AI), require standards that set the pace and keep organizations around the world aligned with what quality looks like.
ISO 9001 has been the…
Dan Leiva
The vision system scanned the part and logged a pass. The SPC chart stayed inside its control limits. The line kept moving.
Three weeks later, the customer complaint arrived. The defect had been there the whole time, sitting just inside the algorithm’s confidence threshold, close enough to spec…
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(Physik Instrumente: Shrewsbury, MA) -- Physik Instrumente (PI), a global leader in precision motion control, provides new options for objective focusing stage applications.
High-speed and high-resolution focusing is critical in wafer inspecting, measuring optical components, or imaging biological…
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(Sovol: Shenzhen, China) -- Sovol, a pioneer in community-driven 3D printing technology, has announced the global launch of its new flagship M1D 3D printer, which features a build volume of 300 x 300 x 350 mm and the innovative DualX system.
As a groundbreaking seven-color multimaterial FDM…
Phanish Puranam
When a CEO tells me they wish their employees were more capable of “self-organizing,” I usually ask what exactly that means. The answer matters for more than academic precision; leaders drawn to the notion of decentralization routinely turn to self-organization as the mechanism that will deliver it…
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(LynxLabs: Kelowna, BC) -- LynxLabs has released a free browser-based checklist designed to help laboratory and supplier-quality teams review whether a certificate of analysis functions as a complete, traceable source record rather than a stand-alone trust badge.
The LynxLabs COA Checker guides…
Carl Andrews
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects are among the most significant technology investments an organization will ever make. They support everything from finance and procurement to inventory management, customer service, and workforce planning. Organizations rightly spend months selecting the…
Aimee Levitt
The premise of AI large language models (LLMs) is that any problem can be solved by vacuuming up as much information as possible, running it through probability models, and performing complex calculations to make predictions and come up with the optimal solution.
Another premise behind LLMs is…
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(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- The global engineering technologies company Renishaw is introducing its multipurpose RMP400S at the IMTS 2026 and AMB 2026 exhibitions.
The RMP400S seamlessly combines touch-trigger, scanning, and surface-finish verification into a single machine tool probe. This…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
Every industry has blind spots. Sometimes the problem is not a lack of expertise, or even information, but of connection.
While in Austin, Texas, at a recent Octave Live OnTour event, sitting in a large room filled with people from different industries, different methods, different states,…
Zach Winn
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- Will a warming climate and changing weather patterns lead to more grid blackouts and other energy disruptions? Answering that question requires studying both regional climate forecasts and local energy systems, including emerging renewable generation, storage, transmission…
Adam Zewe
The deployment of automated software systems called AI agents has recently exploded. A November 2025 report by MIT Sloan School of Management and Boston Consulting Group found that 35% of surveyed businesses had already deployed AI agents, while another 44% planned to implement agentic AI soon.
To…
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(Tomocube: Daejeon, South Korea) -- Tomocube, a 3D nondestructive inspection and metrology company, has launched HT-T1 Desktop (HT-T1D), a desktop holotomography system for high-resolution 3D defect analysis of glass substrates used in next-generation semiconductor packaging.
HT-T1D is optimized…
Wilhelm Klein
In manufacturing, some of the most important financial gains never appear as an obvious line item.
A machine doesn’t stop. A batch doesn’t need to be quarantined. A customer doesn’t complain—no defective product has reached them. A warranty claim never arrives. A quality manager doesn’t have to…
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(HeyGears: Irvine, CA) -- For creators, makers, studios, and small businesses, color has remained one of the biggest barriers in digital fabrication. Multicolor fused deposition modeling (FDM) is limited in detail and often creates waste towers, while resin 3D printing delivers fine detail but…
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(TESCO: Bristol, PA) -- As electric utilities continue modernizing the grid with advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), distributed energy resources (DERs), electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and increasingly sophisticated distribution systems, field technicians require testing equipment…
NIST
Whether you’re a researcher stumped by a mystery compound or a manufacturer perplexed by an unknown substance, there’s a major resource you can rely on: a library of chemical fingerprints, known as mass spectra, that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained for…
Rick Young
Manufacturers are exploring artificial intelligence, but most are still struggling to scale it across operations. According to the latest Sikich Manufacturing Industry Pulse survey, 92% of manufacturers are actively exploring AI. Yet roughly three-quarters of respondents remain in research or pilot…
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(TRIMEDX: Indianapolis) -- TRIMEDX, an industry-leading, independent clinical-asset management company delivering comprehensive clinical engineering services, clinical asset informatics, medical device cybersecurity, and AI-powered healthcare technology solutions, announces a new partnership with…