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Quality Digest
(MSI Viking: Greer, SC) -- MSI Viking, a premier provider of precision measurement technologies and services, has announced a commercial agreement to be an official channel partner of Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and global leader in nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions for…
Quality Digest
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw is launching its CARTO Ballbar Connect app for the QC20 ballbar. The use of mobile technology—smartphones and tablets—and their associated apps has become firmly established as part of everyday life. Recognizing how they can also assist in a multitude of…
Cornelia C. Walther
On April 8, 2025, a driverless Zoox robotaxi misjudged an approaching vehicle, braked too late, and sideswiped it at 43 mph on the Las Vegas Strip.
One month later, the Amazon subsidiary issued a software recall on 270 autonomous vehicles and suspended operations while regulators investigated the…
MIT News
On Dec. 21, 2022, just as peak holiday season travel was getting underway, Southwest Airlines went through a cascading series of failures in its scheduling, initially triggered by severe winter weather in the Denver area.
But the problems spread through the airline’s network, and over the course…
Quality Digest
(Datanomix: Nashua, NH) -- Datanomix, a leader in data-powered production intelligence for precision manufacturers, has announced expanded AI functionality across its software portfolio, designed to help shops overcome the growing challenges of labor shortages, on-time delivery pressures, and…
Quality Digest
(Nikon: Tokyo) -- Nikon Corp. has launched Limited Angle CT, an innovative computed tomography (CT) scanning technology for its range of VOXLS and XT H 225 industrial X-ray inspection systems. This technology advances CT scanning by delivering high-resolution imaging without the need for a full 360…
Heidi Drafall
Anyone who has cracked their smartphone screen or had a rapid oil change knows that sometimes the OEM isn’t the most affordable or convenient service option. Consumer flexibility, paired with lower-cost, high-quality options, is logical, whether it’s in the consumer market or in healthcare.
The…
Jones Loflin
This past weekend I engaged in one of my favorite activities as a beekeeper. I got to catch a swarm of bees.
If you haven’t seen it before, it’s wild. About half of the bees leave with a queen and set up somewhere temporarily while they’re looking for their new permanent home. In the case of this…
Quality Digest
(EMAG: Farmington Hills, MI) -- Manufacturers across North America face growing pressure to increase output while controlling costs and managing a shrinking labor pool. EMAG’s new MSC 5 DUO twin-spindle CNC lathe meets these demands head-on, combining simultaneous machining, fully integrated…
Quality Digest
(Imaging Development Systems: Obersulm, Germany) -- Whether in quality assurance, medical technology, or automation, industrial image processing places high demands on precision and reliability, sometimes under difficult conditions.
At the end of June 2025, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is…
Jennifer Chu
Hearing aids, mouth guards, dental implants, and other highly tailored structures are often products of 3D printing. These structures are typically made via vat photopolymerization—a form of 3D printing that uses patterns of light to shape and solidify a resin, one layer at a time.
The process…
Scott Ginsberg
When quality failures go public, it’s not just your product on the line—it’s also your reputation, compliance status, and workforce morale.
From product recalls to OSHA citations, recent manufacturing disasters reveal a brutal truth: The real cost of outdated documentation isn’t just inefficiency—…
Quality Digest
(NAPT: Eagan, MN) -- The National Association for Proficiency Testing (NAPT), a trusted name in the metrology community for providing administration, development, software tools, and support for interlaboratory comparisons, has announced its new Proficiency Testing Risk Analysis Module, a…
Quality Digest
(Artec 3D: Luxembourg) -- A global 3D scanning leader, Artec 3D has announced a partnership with LuxProvide, the organization behind the MeluXina supercomputer.
Also located in Luxembourg, MeluXina is capable of carrying out billions of calculations per second, making it one of Europe’s most…
Mike Figliuolo
For as many words as we use, we’re terrible communicators. Voicemails are jumbled streams of consciousness. Emails are “text bombs” with no rhyme or reason. Presentations are nothing but crippling piles of slides. But don’t worry—here are three rules of three to make your communications clearer,…
Gleb Tsipursky
Remote work has become a game-changer for older individuals with disabilities, offering a solution that not only improves their employment prospects but also brings substantial economic benefits, according to a new study from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
Before the…
Quality Digest
(RobotLAB: Dallas) -- In his illuminating new book, Our Robotics Future (self-published), Elad Inbar delivers a powerful road map for business owners and decision-makers eager to thrive in the age of automation. Packed with sharp insights and real-world success stories across multiple industries,…
Quality Digest
(BLM GROUP USA: Novi, MI) -- BLM GROUP USA has announced the addition of a new tube bender to its E-TURN line of machines, capable of right- and left-hand, in-process bending: the E-TURN63, a machine with the capacity to bend tubes up to 2.5 in. (63 mm) in diameter. This all-electric tube bender is…
Seb Murray
In Formula One racing, slower drivers are expected to move aside when a faster car laps them. But some don’t give way so easily. They might wait for a spot that costs them less time, delay just enough to stay in their rhythm, or even make the faster driver fight harder to get past, throwing them…
Quality Digest
(AMT: Orion, MI) -- Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), a FANUC Level V authorized system integrator and a leader in robotics and automation engineering and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, has introduced a plug-and-play collaborative palletizing…
InnovMetric
Humanetics is the world’s largest manufacturer of anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs), commonly known as crash test dummies. The group has more than 1,000 employees across 21 facilities located around the world, with global corporate headquarters in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Humanetics is…
Conformance1
Amid uncertainty in manufacturing, AI adoption, labor market fluctuations, and salary disparities across industries and geographic regions, quality professional compensation can be difficult to calculate. Without current job-level salary benchmarks, quality professionals, from technicians to…
Quality Digest
(EV Group: St. Florian, Austria) -- EV Group (EVG), a leading provider of innovative process solutions and expertise serving semiconductor designs and chip integration schemes, has introduced the LITHOSCALE XT maskless exposure (MLE) system, the industry’s first true high-throughput/high-resolution…
Rene Ymzon
When manufacturing tolerances shrink to the micron, and part geometries become increasingly complex, the margin for measurement error disappears. In this space—where even thermal drift or mechanical vibration can invalidate results—motion control becomes not just a component but a cornerstone of…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Recent advancements at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) show that 3D-printed metal molds offer a faster, more cost-effective and flexible approach to producing large composite components for mass-produced vehicles than traditional tooling…
