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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using advanced manufacturing techniques to revitalize the domestic production of very large metal parts that weigh at least 10,000 lb each and are necessary for a variety of industries, including clean energy.
Across…
Quality Digest
(Starrett: Athol, MA) -- At the International Manufacturing Technology Show at McCormick Place in Chicago in September 2024, the L.S. Starrett Co., a global manufacturer of precision measuring tools and gages, and metrology systems invited attendees to try its new Starrett W4900 touchscreen…
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(Synova: Totowa, NJ) -- At the International Manufacturing and Technology Show in Chicago in September 2024, Synova, a provider of advanced laser cutting solutions, presented its Laser MicroJet Integration Package (LMJ-iP), designed to turn any standard three-axis vertical machining center into a…
Mark Hembree
If you’re reading this, you probably read a lot. You’ve made your way through all our industry news, keeping tabs on trends in our feature stories and gleaning a greater understanding of your own business—at least we hope so.
And if you read this much, it may be that you do a fair amount of…
Harry Hertz
How do you treat signs when you’re driving your car? Are you a strict rule follower? Does a stop sign cause you to come to a full stop, or a rolling stop, or no stop at all if you see no traffic? What about that intersection you go through every day, where you never see a car approaching from any…
Quality Digest
(Milliken & Co.: Spartanburg, SC) -- Milliken & Co., a global leader in diversified manufacturing, has launched its “Meet the Makers” spotlight series, featuring the remarkable people whose dedication enhances the company’s commitment to innovation, quality, and performance.
Through…
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(Flight Safety Foundation: Alexandria, VA) -- The goal for aviation is a proactive safety regime that will enable airlines, regulators, air navigation service providers, and other industry stakeholders to identify, understand, and mitigate emerging risks well before they result in an accident or…
Quality Digest
(American Makes: Youngstown, OH; ANSI: Washington, DC) -- America Makes and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) have announced the availability of Gaps Progress Report tracking efforts over the last six months by standards developing organizations (SDOs) and others to address the gaps…
Anne Trafton
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- A classic way to image nanoscale structures in cells is with expensive high-powered, super-resolution microscopes. As an alternative, MIT researchers have developed a way to expand tissue before imaging it—a technique that allows them to achieve nanoscale resolution with a…
Michael Mills
You’ve finally gotten ISO 9001 certification. Congratulations! You’ve built your quality management system, written your procedures, trained your staff, sweated through internal and external audits, and your registrar sent you a certificate suitable for framing. Now, at long last, all of your…
David L. Chandler
Industrial electrochemical processes that use electrodes to produce fuels and chemical products are hampered by the formation of bubbles that block parts of the electrode surface, reducing the area available for the active reaction. Such blockage reduces the performance of the electrodes by…
Scott Crow
W ithin the utility industry, regional entities increasingly focus on internal controls as a measuring stick for overall compliance performance.
Developing and executing rock-solid internal controls with an automated compliance management software solution can help maintain compliance, not only…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory were recently honored with the prestigious ACE Award for Composites Excellence by the American Composites Manufacturers Association. The team won the “innovation in green composites design” prize…
Rob Moorey
Biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs) are facing increased workloads and staffing shortages that are expected to get worse as the current workforce retires.
About one-third of healthcare technology management (HTM) professionals are older than 55, putting pressure on health systems to attract…
ISO
Modern-day security breaches, such as the SolarWinds or T-Mobile attacks, aren’t one-off events; they are prime examples of how someone can steal your organization’s credentials and use them to gain illegitimate privileged access to sensitive assets. Data breaches happen daily, and in too many…
Quality Digest
(Sandvik Coromant: Sandviken, Sweden) -- Sandvik Coromant, a leader in cutting tools and tooling systems, recently launched CoroCut 2 with -RF geometry, designed for secure and high-precision profiling. Additionally, the company introduced grade GC1205 for parting and grooving operations in aged…
Quality Digest
(Nordson: East Providence, RI) -- Nordson EFD, a Nordson Corp. company, has announced that its new-to-market PICO Nexμs jetting system has been recognized by Machine Design magazine with a 2024 Edge Award in the Automation & IIoT category.
Designed for smart factory readiness, PICO Nexμs…
Scott Ginsberg
Despite the industry’s push toward digital transformation, 95% of manufacturers use paper-based documentation, according to Forbes. But modernization doesn’t have to be overwhelming for manufacturing teams.
When implemented strategically, digital documentation can improve processes, enhance…
Harish Jose
In this article, I’m looking at Weber’s Law. It’s named after Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878), a German physician who was one of the pioneers of experimental psychology. I highly recommend the Numberphile YouTube video that explains this in detail.
A simple explanation of Weber’s Law is that we…
Quality Digest
(GFT: New York) -- Manufacturers are in the midst of one of the most significant transformations of their time, defined in large part by new AI-powered efficiencies. But for many companies, decades of siloed data stand between them and this new reality.
GFT has been working with Google Cloud since…
Quality Digest
(Nikon Metrology NV: Brighton, MI)—Nikon Metrology NV, a subsidiary of Nikon Corp., announces the launch of Scatter Correction CT, a software solution designed to address the challenges posed by X-ray scatter artifacts in industrial computed tomography (CT) scanning. By employing advanced physics-…
Gleb Tsipursky
Despite the clear benefits of hybrid work models, a significant number of managers still push for their teams to be back in the office. A KPMG report of responses from 100 CEOs of large companies shows that more than a third expect to have all corporate workers back to the office full time by 2027…
Bruce Hamilton
Not long ago, I accompanied two of the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership’s consultants, Bob Elliott and Peter Melnik, to a Shingo Systems Design workshop at Osram, a terrific host site in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. Bob and Peter did all the work. My job, in the spirit of continuous…
Quality Digest
(Digital Twin Consortium: Boston) -- Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) has announced revised definitions for digital twin and digital thread, aligning these concepts more closely with core digital engineering principles. These refined definitions underscore the central role of digital twins and digital…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Baldrige Executive Fellows Program is a one-year, nationally ranked leadership development experience for direct reports to the most senior leader in the organization or business unit leaders.
The program prepares this elite group of rising senior executives for…
