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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…
Adam Zewe
Researchers at MIT have overcome a major challenge holding back the real-world deployment of microwave quantum technologies for advanced signal processing and secure communications.
The team developed a scalable platform that generates pairs of highly correlated radio frequency waves without bulky…
Quality Digest
(Sunnen Products Co.: St. Louis) -- Sunnen Products Co., a global leader in high-precision honing, bore sizing, and engine rebuilding equipment, will showcase its latest manufacturing solutions at IMTS 2026, Sept. 14–19, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Attendees are invited to visit Sunnen at…
Brant Engelhart
Poor quality rarely announces itself as a single, contained problem. In manufacturing environments, it may first appear as a rejected batch, a scrapped component, an unexpected line stoppage, or a customer complaint that requires investigation. These visible failures matter, and most manufacturers…
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(QT9 Software: Aurora, IL) – QT9 Software, a global technology leader in quality management software, ERP, and MRP solutions, is highlighting QT9 QMS, a robust quality management platform designed to empower organizations in life sciences, medical device, and biotechnology manufacturing with…
Neeta Verma
The European Commission’s latest Joint Actions on Compliance of Products (JACOP) project offers a useful starting point for understanding why products can still fail environmental compliance checks even when manufacturers have established compliance programs.
Published in June 2026, the JACOP…
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(ABM Equipment: Vancouver, WA) -- System integration firm ABM Equipment has published a new industry guide comparing nearly every X-ray OEM on the market.
The guide is designed to help processors land on the most practical equipment by comparing factors that determine performance, usability, and…
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(Physik Instrumente: Shrewsbury, MA) -- Physik Instrumente (PI), a global leader in precision motion control and nanopositioning, offers ring-type PZT actuators for applications requiring fast, nanometer-scale motion while maintaining an unobstructed central opening.
Higher force and longer travel…
Keith Stouffer, Michael Galler
Recent cyberattacks highlight the growing threat to operational technology (OT) used in critical infrastructure. Whether you work for an infrastructure owner/operator or are a consumer of an infrastructure service, recent events have made it clear that cybersecurity is an important factor in…
Quality Digest
(Conexiom: Vancouver, BC) -- Conexiom has announced Conexiom Relay, an AI-native product that’s a fundamental part of its Trusted Transaction Platform for driving greater customer loyalty and margin by automating order and invoice life cycles.
Conexiom addresses the issue that much of a company’s…
Josh Peterson
Quality management system software helps life sciences organizations manage documents, training, quality events, change controls, audits, and other regulated processes in one controlled environment.
Most electronic quality management systems (eQMS) offer some version of these core capabilities.…
Quality Digest
(ZEISS: Maple Grove, MN) -- In Booth 134302 at IMTS 2026 (Sept. 14–19, 2026, at McCormick Place, Chicago), ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions will demonstrate how trusted measurement data help catch quality issues earlier, make decisions faster, and keep manufacturing moving with confidence.…
FARO CREAFORM
Quality control processes are never about single-inspection scenarios—and yet most inspection systems are. Inspection requirements constantly shift between part dimensions, hard-to-reach areas, quick validations, and precise feature measurements, creating daily challenges for QC professionals.
As…
Paul Hanaphy
In the world of mining, structural collapse is a worst-case scenario. Whenever ground gives way, it puts miners at risk—and it often leads to site closure.
Once all miners are accounted for, it’s time for the recovery operation to begin. Limited visibility often means it’s difficult to assess…
Quality Digest
(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, announced an API-enabled integration between Plex Quality Management System (QMS) and FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI. The integration expands AI-driven…
Mike Figliuolo
I tried to achieve some balance in my life by taking a few days off to go fishing on Lake Erie with my son. We chartered a boat for three days—just the two of us. If you’ve never been walleye fishing on a trolling boat (we hadn’t), it’s a bit different from what you would expect, and it was a lot…
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(KPM Analytics: Westborough, MA) -- Food processors are striving for zero defects by measuring as many quality parameters as possible in various stages of production. To assist processors in meeting this goal, KPM Analytics offers its new MCT700 Series NIR (near infrared) sensors, which provide…
Bruce Hamilton
In my last post, I reflected on a couple of different whys to interrogate a process—either to solve a problem or to create a process improvement. Here are a few more contextual uses of the question “Why?” that I’ve found very helpful as a manager and improvement leader.
Purpose expansion
When…
Quality Digest
(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Calibration laboratories are under growing pressure to do more with fewer resources while managing disconnected systems, manual workflows, and increasing compliance demands. To address these challenges, Fluke has announced the latest release of CalStudio, headlined by…
Quality Digest
(APM Steam: Woburn, MA) -- American Plant Maintenance (APM Steam), a leading provider of steam system maintenance services, highlights steam trap surveys that create a complete inventory of steam traps, identify failing units, and uncover trap station issues that reduce thermal energy delivery and…
Etienne Nichols
Ask a premarket team where corrective and preventive action (CAPA) sits on the priority list, and it usually lands below design controls, risk management, and the submission itself. The reasoning is easy to follow. Nothing has shipped, so there are no complaints to investigate, no returned product…
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(QT9 Software: Aurora, IL) -- QT9 Software, a global technology leader in quality management software and ERP solutions, will exhibit its integrated QMS and ERP platforms at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), September 14–19, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago. At Booth 134047…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Nanoscience, which studies small objects, has a big problem. According to a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the field confronts a pervasive error of data analysis that can give misleading insights into how these tiny…
Kevin Turpin
A sound that’s slightly off before a bearing fails. A smell that shows up before a chemical reaction runs hot. A texture that feels wrong before any instrument confirms it. Frontline workers pick up on signals like these constantly and, most of the time, nothing in the plant is built to capture…
Mike Figliuolo
As the leader of a high-performing team, how you distribute and balance work for members of that team is a critical success factor. It needs to be done fairly. Note, I didn’t say equally. Work allocation needs to be done fairly because you want your team to operate on the basis of equality. You…