(SCANOLOGY: Hangzhou, China) -- SCANOLOGY, a leading 3D scanning solution provider, has announced the launch of SIMSCAN-S Gen2, a palm-sized 3D scanner designed to help manufacturers perform high-precision inspections with greater confidence, speed, and flexibility.
Manufacturers are required to…
All Features
Stephanie Ojeda
In the high-stakes world of modern manufacturing, environmental, health, and safety (EHS) management is no longer a back-office checkbox. It has become a strategic function that directly affects worker safety, regulatory compliance, operational continuity, and long-term performance. Unfortunately,…
Quality Digest
(BYK-Gardner USA: Columbia, MD) -- BYK-Gardner USA, a worldwide partner of the automotive, paint, and plastics industries for quality control of color, appearance, and physical properties, introduces the color2go, a portable spectrophotometer that combines precise color and 60° gloss measurement…
Paul Hanaphy
At the heart of every construction project around the world is a handful of vehicles doing all the heavy lifting. Whether it’s a digger, tractor, or crane, this machinery must be safe, efficient, and fit for purpose—and purpose can depend quite a lot on the project at hand.
It’s often possible to…
Quality Digest
(COPA-DATA: Salzburg, Austria) -- The process and packaging industry is changing, and developments such as digitalization, increasing regulatory requirements, and changing consumer behavior are challenging producers, machine builders, and system integrators.
Software manufacturer COPA-DATA will be…
NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new forensic DNA reference material, RM 8043, that includes degraded DNA as well as mixtures of high-quality DNA from multiple individuals. This material will help crime labs verify that their methods produce accurate results…
Quality Digest
(Sandvik Coromant: Stockholm) -- Cutting tool specialist Sandvik Coromant has launched the CoroMill MR20, an advanced, indexable milling concept engineered to deliver unmatched stability, predictable performance, and exceptional metal removal rates in demanding materials and applications. Designed…
Mike Melzer
If you ask 10 different manufacturers to identify their toughest problem, odds are at least five of them will say, “We can’t get parts through the shop floor fast enough.”
When you think about it, that answer shouldn’t come as a surprise. Today’s manufacturing customers demand increasingly shorter…
Quality Digest
(Physik Instrumente: Shrewsbury, MA) -- Physik Instrumente (PI), a global leader in precision motion control and nanopositioning technology, has introduced its modular precision linear (MPL) stage family, a configurable platform designed to simplify the specification and integration of high-…
Joe Schaeppi
Across manufacturing floors, pharmaceutical labs, and industrial supply chains, AI is moving from experiment to infrastructure. Systems now monitor equipment before it fails, flag quality defects faster than inspectors, and recommend production schedules that once required entire planning teams.…
Quality Digest
(Vention: Montreal) -- Vention, creator of the world’s only full-stack software and hardware automation platform, has announced the commercial launch of Rapid Operator AI, a solution designed to automate complex, unstructured tasks, beginning with deep-bin picking.
The launch marks a significant…
Greg Rankin
As mining operations push toward lower-grade deposits and tighter economic margins, the reliability of analytical measurement has become central to operational decision-making.
From representative sampling to traceable calibration standards and certified reference materials, the systems used to…
Harish Jose
I am exploring what I think is a fundamental question in epistemology: What does it mean to say something is true? I want to approach this through the lens of cybernetic constructivism. I’ll start with a question about pi, which feels fitting given that I wrote this on March 14.
What is pi? For…
Quality Digest
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has submitted to Congress its annual update on activities under the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) Act. The report includes an overview of work completed in fiscal year 2025 on the investigation into the…
Quality Digest
(TIA: Arlington, VA) -- The Telecommunications Industry Association, a trusted industry association for the connected world, announced continued industry momentum behind the Data Center Excellence (DCE 9000) initiative, a collaborative effort to establish the first quality management system…
Dmitriy Osnach
In precision machining there’s a particularly deceptive failure mode. Everything looks fine. The toolpath is clean, cutting is stable, the part’s almost finished. And then you discover that you took off too much somewhere. Or the opposite—you left a small island of stock that now must be removed by…
Quality Digest
(METTLER TOLEDO: Columbus, OH) -- METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection Group has released a new e-guide, “5 Steps to Prevent Physical Contamination,” designed to help manufacturers strengthen food safety programs that protect their customers, consumers, and brand reputation. The guide outlines…
Global Shop Solutions
It’s 3:42 p.m. on a Wednesday, and your phone lights up. Your customer isn’t calling to chat.
They’re calling because a shipment promised for Friday just slipped to next Tuesday. Their line is going to stop. Their people are going to stand around. Their customers are going to scream. And in about…
Quality Digest
(Nanoverse Technologies: Beaverton, OR) -- Nanoverse Technologies (NVT) announces the release of a new advanced packaging line of tools.
NVT has recently developed the fastest, most advanced and versatile laser singulation and metrology tools in the industry. The advanced packaging product family…
Maria DiBari, Paige Orme
Right now, as tensions rise around Iran and the Persian Gulf, the headlines are doing what they always do: tracking missiles, drones, and the defense companies building them. That matters, obviously. But it’s not the whole story.
That’s because modern conflict isn’t constrained by weapons the way…
Quality Digest
(BlueBotics: Torrance, CA) -- Autonomous navigation and fleet management leader BlueBotics has launched SmartPass, a new efficiency-driving innovation within its ANT software suite.
Available immediately for “ANT-driven” AGVs and AMRs, SmartPass is a safe and highly configurable technology that…
Mike DeCapua
Buffalo Metrology Inc. (BMI) was recently tasked with reverse engineering an 8 ft outside-diameter clarifier cover used in the mixing/agitation industry. The goal was to inspect the fracture on the tapered face of this component as part of a possible new cover fabrication.
Clarifier agitators are…
Donald J. Wheeler
Many practitioners have been taught to describe a process using sigma levels. Yet these levels are commonly misinterpreted. This article will help you to understand the problem and learn more appropriate ways of describing your process.
In the days before handheld calculators and personal…
Quality Digest
(Chef Robotics: San Francisco) -- Chef Robotics, a leader in physical AI for the food industry, has announced its robot-to-robot (R2R) communication, enabling multiple Chef robots on a shared conveyor line to coordinate deposits and increase throughput on high-speed production lines.
Food…
Vick Vaishnavi, Quality Digest
Octave, a new company from Hexagon, is one of the latest additions in a string of improvements and innovations. This company will unite several Hexagon departments and functions, increase the efficiency of Hexagon’s digital communication, and provide support for vital infrastructure. Vick Vaishnavi…