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Bryan Christiansen
Facility teams are constantly balancing urgent repairs, preventive tasks, asset tracking, and compliance, all while ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. But when processes are manual, fragmented, or unclear, even simple tasks can spiral into delays, miscommunication, and wasted time.
The…
Quality Digest
(Kahua: Alpharetta, GA) -- Kahua, a leading provider of capital programs and construction project management information systems (PMIS), announces that AVCOR Construction has selected Kahua as its project management system of record.
AVCOR, a veteran- and woman-owned federal contractor supporting…
Knowledge at Wharton
Many countries face the reality of demographic aging: Fertility is plummeting and people are living longer. This raises critical challenges for the labor market, healthcare, and long-term care markets, as well as retirement systems and financial planning. A Wharton symposium on the implications of…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for detecting and measuring the radioactivity of minuscule amounts of radioactive material. The innovative technique, known as cryogenic decay energy…
Quality Digest
(Metrologic Group: Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France) -- Metrologic Group, a software company specializing in 3D metrology and quality control, has signed a partnership agreement with Horus Metrology.
Horus Metrology’s solid expertise in onsite measurement and automation in Mexico, combined with…
Creaform
Brosius GmbH is a trusted partner in metal processing for a wide range of companies in the mechanical and plant engineering industries, offering comprehensive services under one roof. Brosius ensures that every part it manufactures in its 10,000 m² state-of-the-art production hall meets or exceeds…
NIST, Michael Prebil
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- A lot has changed in America’s cybersecurity workforce development ecosystem since 2016: Employment in cybersecurity occupations has grown by more than 300,000; the number of information security degrees awarded annually has more than tripled to nearly 35,000; and a wide…
Adam Zewe
Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is limited by the speed at which researchers can manually measure important material properties.
A fully autonomous robotic system…
Harish Jose
R eaders of my blog might be aware that I appreciate the nuances of cybernetic constructivism. Cybernetic constructivism rejects the idea that we have access to an objective reality. It doesn’t deny that there’s an external reality independent of an observer. However, we don’t have direct access to…
Quality Digest
(Guill Tool: West Warwick, RI) -- Guill Tool, a global leader in extrusion tooling, has expanded its lab capabilities to better serve the global extrusion market with the creation of Guill Labs. The labs include the company’s state-of-the-art rheology lab and a facility focused entirely on the…
Mark Hembree
The 2025 Major League Baseball season certainly started with a bang—at least for the New York Yankees. At Yankee Stadium against the Milwaukee Brewers, the Bronx Bombers blasted an MLB-record 15 home runs in the first three games, including nine homers in a 20-9 bludgeoning of the Brewers in the…
Quality Digest
(WITT-Gasetchnik: Witten, Germany) -- Leaking modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) poses a significant risk for food manufacturers. It can shorten product shelf life, lead to spoilage, and cause costly product recalls. To meet these challenges, WITT offers the LEAK-MASTER PRO/PRO 2 series. These…
Cornelia C. Walther
When artificial intelligence burst into mainstream business consciousness, the narrative was compelling: Intelligent machines would handle routine tasks, freeing humans for higher-level creative and strategic work. McKinsey research sized the long-term AI opportunity at $4.4 trillion in added…
Quality Digest
(Thomson Industries: Downers Grove, IL)--Thomson Industries Inc., a leading manufacturer of linear motion control solutions, has announced the availability of an enhanced synchronization option for its Electrak HD smart electric linear actuator. The new iteration of this control option implements…
Donald J. Wheeler
In statistics class we learn that we can reduce the uncertainty in our estimates by using more and more data. This effect has been called the “law of large numbers” and is one of the primary ideas behind the various big data techniques that are becoming popular today. Here we’ll look at how the law…
Quality Digest
(Boeing: El Segundo, CA) -- Boeing has successfully delivered its ninth and tenth O3b mPOWER satellites to content and network provider SES, advancing the company’s effort to provide global connectivity from space. The satellites, which feature Boeing’s fully software-defined payload technology to…
Zach Winn
Modern fighter jets contain hundreds or even thousands of sensors. Some of those sensors collect data every second, others every nanosecond. For the engineering teams building and testing those jets, all those data points are hugely valuable—if they can make sense of them.
Nominal is an advanced…
Quality Digest
(Omnex: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Omnex has announced its latest webinar, “Updates to ASPICE, Functional Safety, SOTIF & Product Cybersecurity.”
Date and time: July 22, 2025, 11 a.m. Eastern
Speakers: Brian Kozumplik, Chad Kymal, Juan Pimentel, and Nikhil Unnikrishnan
The key automotive e-mobility…
Quality Digest
(GARDCO: Columbia, MD) -- Paul N. Gardner USA—worldwide distributors, producers, and designers of quality physical and inspection instruments for the paint, coatings, and related industries—announces a new offering, the RTM Digital Micrometer with comprehensive RT Kit option.
Accurate surface…
Amy Knue
Health systems across the country are unknowingly paying multiple times for the same medical equipment—once to own it, and again to rent it. The issue isn’t always an increase in clinical demand; it’s often availability and visibility to medical device inventory. The cost of these unnecessary…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Strengthening the competitiveness of the American transportation industry relies on developing domestically produced electric vehicle batteries that enable rapid charging and long-range performance. However, the energy density needed to extend driving distance can come at…
Christa Kuljian
Seven women were part of a trailblazing network of feminist scientists in the Boston area during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Christa Kuljian is a science writer and historian of science who focuses much of her research on issues of science and society, gender, and race. She’s the author of two…
Quality Digest
(NPL: Teddington, England) -- Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory recently published findings on laser frequency stabilization, demonstrating an unprecedented level of performance using an optical reference cavity. This advancement features a beyond state-of-the-art optical storage time…
ISO
Gridlocked streets, honking horns, and polluted air—modern city life often feels like a daily battle against time and space. With half the world’s population projected to live in cities by 2050, the pressure on transport systems is reaching a breaking point. Long commutes steal hours from our day,…
Michael McDowell
As artificial intelligence takes off, how do we efficiently integrate it into our lives and our work? Bridging the gap between promise and practice, Jann Spiess, an associate professor of operations, information, and technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business, explores how algorithms can be…
