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Guillaume Roels
In January 2023, Shopify deleted 12,000 recurring meetings from its staff’s calendars. The e-commerce firm also reinstated a no-meeting Wednesday policy. The idea wasn’t to prevent meetings from happening, but for staff to be intentional about them. In addition, it sent a clear message that it was…
(Coherix: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Coherix is developing quality-control technology that can improve EV-battery safety, service life, and quality while reducing production costs.
The company has pioneered the development of 3D machine vision, artificial intelligence, and proprietary process-control…
(AIMS Metrology: Dayton, OH) -- AIMS Metrology has partnered with OGP, a division of QVI. The five-axis coordinate measuring machine OEM is a single-source provider that builds and assembles its machines in the U.S. The affiliation with OGP allows AIMS to provide multisensor measurement with…
William A. Levinson
Valuable American manufacturing jobs were sent offshore under the dysfunctional belief that low-wage labor would result in lower product costs and higher profits. Although it may seem counterintuitive, manufacturers do better with high-wage workers who will acquire skills, follow work standards,…
Chandrakant Isi, Francesco Rivalta
You’re in an early-stage hardware startup or a tinkerer in a toolshed with a product design set to shake up the market. Not sure how to turn your idea into a product? Here’s a step-by-step guide to the product development journey. From the initial design sketched out on paper to the final product…
(Titan: Buffalo, NY) -- Titan Tool Supply, a global provider of optical instrumentation and precision microfinishing tools, has launched the Model FX-3, a high-quality, industrial grade wide-field stereo microscope designed to facilitate various manufacturing and quality assurance remote visual-…
Mike Figliuolo
Some people advocate giving good feedback before and after bad feedback. Doing so is actually harmful. Instead, good leaders deliver tough feedback directly.
Every once in a while history repeats itself—and those who fail to learn from it are doomed to repeat it. This post is in the spirit of that…
James Chan
Implementing a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) isn’t just a monetary investment. If you want to see real results, you’ll need to put in the effort to make sure the system is properly implemented and adopted. It isn’t as simple as flipping a switch.
It takes planning, time, and…
Kristopher Lee
A leader in asset integrity management and inspection services, Kakivik Asset Management recently held an intro to phased-array class at its Anchorage, Alaska, office. The training was attended by nearly two dozen ultrasound specialists and was conducted by Shane Walton from the University of…
(ETQ: Burlington, MA) --ETQ, part of Hexagon, has launched a new version of its award-winning ETQ Reliance NXG quality management system (QMS). The new features and functionality are designed to boost the user experience for end users and strengthen the usability and performance for administrators…
(Kumanu: Ann Arbor, MI) -- At the 2023 HERO Forum in Salt Lake City at the end of September 2023, MOBE and Kumanu announced a partnership focused on reshaping the landscape of employee health and well-being solutions. The partnership between these two industry innovators aims to simplify the…
(ANCA: Melbourne, Australia) -- The accuracy and quality of ANCA’s FX7 ULTRA takes small-tool manufacturing to new heights.
“The FX7 ULTRA introduces cutting-edge technologies that revolutionize precision grinding for small tools down to 0.1 mm diameter. If you produce tools such as ballnose,…
Stephanie Hinton
If you’re conducting a clinical investigation of a medical device in a European Union member state, you will be required to submit a clinical investigation report (CIR) along with a summary of the CIR to that member state.
The European Union Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) lists this as one of…
Renay San Miguel
Active matter is any collection of materials or systems composed of individual units that can move on their own, thanks to self-propulsion or autonomous motion. They can be of any size—think clouds of bacteria in a petri dish, or schools of fish.
Roman Grigoriev is mostly interested in the…
(Configit: Copenhagen, Denmark) -- According to the findings of a new IDC InfoBrief sponsored by Configit, a global leader in configuration life cycle management (CLM), manufacturing companies increasingly consider CLM to be a competitive advantage to optimize product portfolios and increase…
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs Inc., a leader in measurement, testing, and inspection equipment, is announcing the latest addition to its highly successful line of Industry 4.0 metrology solutions, the STIL Micromeasure 2 3D measuring system.
The Micromeasure 2 high-performance 3D…
Andrey Solin
Luxury products are strange beasts. They are a source of confusion to a scholar of economics (my first education is in economics, so I know a little bit about which I am talking).
Luxury goods, let alone Veblen goods (products that increase in demand as the price rises), cause peculiar patterns in…
Tobias Dennerlein
A majority of American workers right now aren’t feeling very motivated on the job, a new survey suggests. Management experts often encourage business leaders to motivate employees by empowering them. The idea is that when workers are free to make decisions and manage their workday, they become more…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Opening new possibilities for quantum sensors, atomic clocks, and tests of fundamental physics, JILA researchers have developed new ways of “entangling” or interlinking the properties of large numbers of particles. In the process, they also devised ways to measure large…
(DEWALT: Towson, MD) -- DEWALT, a Stanley Black & Decker brand and leader in total job site solutions, has announced it is accepting applications for the 2024 DEWALT Trades Scholarship. Now in its fifth year, the DEWALT Trades Scholarship provides financial assistance to those pursuing a trade…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata Inc., a leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in product life cycle management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announced that Sandeepak Natu, an executive consultant focusing on simulation analysis, will be a…
The MEP National Network
Employees matter. They are difficult to find and hard to replace, especially in today’s labor market. Besides figuring out why someone leaves unexpectedly, it’s important to consider the other side of the equation—what about your company makes people stay.
The Manufacturers’ Guide to Finding and…
Bruce Hamilton
I’ll admit it: After five decades watching U.S. companies turning to simplistic accounting tricks to remain profitable, I’m discouraged.
I was a kid when I first discovered the Toyota Production System (TPS). My eyes were opened to the immense amount of waste in our production and business…
Ekin Ilseven
An organization’s resilience can’t be measured in advance. Crises, by definition, emerge not only from unfamiliar, disruptive, and unexpected events, but also when the immediate consequences of such events get entangled and intertwined with the complex dynamics of the organization.
Organizations…
(iotaSciences: Oxford, England) -- The Oxford-based leader in the rapidly growing field of single-cell handling solutions, iotaSciences, is releasing the first encouraging data for the use of its recently launched single-cell picking instrumentation, isoPick, based on the company’s proprietary…
