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Del Williams
(Cablevey: Oskaloosa, IA) -- To promote food safety and sanitary compliance, processors increasingly seek the ability to clean-in-place (CIP), an automated method of cleaning the interior surfaces of tubular drag conveyors without disassembly. Now, with the advent of mobile tools like an innovative…
(Teledyne: Grenoble, France) -- Teledyne e2v, a Teledyne Technologies company and global innovator of imaging solutions, announces Snappy Wide, a new 8K-wide aspect ratio CMOS image sensor designed specifically for logistics applications where larger conveyor belts are becoming increasingly common…
(OGP: Rochester, NY) -- Optical Gaging Products, a leading manufacturer of optical and precision multisensor metrology systems for industrial quality control, has announced SmartScope E45, a floor-model addition to the all-new SmartScope E-Series family of automatic digital zoom metrology systems…
FABTECH
Manufacturers understand that their businesses won’t grow if their workforces don’t grow along with them. That’s why the talent shortage in the metal fabrication industry continues to be a pressing concern—and three-quarters of respondents in the National Association of Manufacturers’ 2023 First…
Hank C. Andersen
Not many years ago, there was a CEO so exceedingly fond of finding the right strategy that he spent all of his money on consultants to tell him what the strategy should be. One day there came two consultants, and they said they could craft the most magnificent strategy imaginable. Not only would it…
(Nikon Americas Inc.: Brighton, MI) -- Nikon Americas Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Nikon Corp., has purchased the U.S. company Avonix Imaging LLC, of Maple Grove, Minnesota. Since 2015, Avonix has been a strategic X-ray CT (computed tomography) equipment manufacturing partner to Nikon Industrial…
(Vizion: San Francisco) -- TransImpact, a leading provider of supply chain cost management solutions, and Vizion, an innovative logistics technology company, are announcing a strategic partnership aimed at transforming supply chain visibility and optimization for organizations moving freight. This…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
Business owners and employees alike have long debated over how best to achieve quality standards and what those standards ought to be. However, as much as linear thinking may help when measuring degrees of improvement, increases in profit, or low turnover rates, it can’t tell you that your company…
Angie Basiouny
Wharton experts used machine learning to help uncover the secret formula for successful healthy habit formation, and it turned out there’s no one formula.
“There’s this widely spread rumor that it takes 21 days to form a habit,” says Katy Milkman, a Wharton professor of operations, information,…
(Mistakesbook.com: Colleyville, TX) -- Mistakes are often seen as roadblocks to success. But what if they were actually the stepping stones to growth and innovation? Mark Graban, award-winning author and consultant, tackles this paradigm in his latest book, The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata, a leading global product life cycle management (PLM) consulting and research firm, has released its “2023 Executive PLM Market Report.” This report provides an executive-level view of CIMdata’s comprehensive analysis of the PLM market, with summary charts on the…
Jennifer V. Miller
What are the stories we tell ourselves? It’s a simple question, yet one rich with possibility. In my years of creating leadership development programs, one of the “stories” that continually surfaces with leaders is “I need to do X for my direct reports because they are not yet ready/willing/able to…
Aaron Smith
A successful company can’t run without happy and motivated employees. One way you can achieve that is by improving your employees’ uptime. Uptime refers to your employees’ freedom to pursue personal and occupational growth without the burden of preventable injuries. Here is everything you need to…
(Waygate Technologies: Huerth, Germany) -- Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes business and leader in nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions for industrial inspection, has launched the Everest Ca-Zoom HD, a state-of-the-art pan, tilt, and zoom (PTZ) camera system. It’s designed with an integrated…
(Canon Medical Components USA: Irvine, CA) -- Canon Medical Digital Radiography, a leader in advanced flat-panel detectors (FPDs), X-ray components, X-ray tubes, and innovative video camera technologies, announces the latest generation of flat-panel detector systems, the CXDI-Elite Wireless Digital…
Mike Figliuolo
You folks know I love asking questions. From this post about forgoing answers in favor of asking questions, to my quote, “Asking the right question about the future is more powerful than having the right answer about the past,” I’ve found questions to be a more powerful leadership tool than many…
Chandrakant Isi
The future is here, and it’s taking shape with 4D printing. This emerging technology, also known as shape-morphing systems, adds the dimension of time to 3D printing.
By employing responsive materials that react to external elements like heat, light, moisture, electric current, or pressure, 4D-…
Mark Mortensen
The end of Covid-19 workplace disruptions has ushered in a fresh set of challenges for organizations. Chief among them has been establishing new office policies for a workforce that has largely embraced flexible work and has expressed a desire for this to become a permanent fixture.
But…
(ELEVATE: Hong Kong) -- ELEVATE’s biannual risk report, compiling data from 20,000 global supplier audits, finds that nearly half of all sourcing countries are now considered a “high risk” of supply-chain ESG violations.
The U.K., Germany, Portugal, and Italy are now ranked as high risk from the…
National Physical Laboratory
(National Physical Laboratory: Teddington, Middlesex, U.K.) -- Fluorescent microparticles and nanobeads, widely used as molecular tags, are also effective calibrants in fluorescence microscopy. They can be fabricated from a range of materials and come in different sizes, shapes (e.g., hollow vs.…
Gleb Tsipursky
As the world slowly recovers from the pandemic, many knowledge workers find themselves at a crossroad. On one hand, the prospect of returning to the office stirs up a cocktail of dread and nostalgia. On the other hand, the threat of AI-driven job elimination looms large. It’s like being caught…
Anne Trafton
A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: Introduce a few weaker bonds into the material.
Working with a type of polymer known as polyacrylate elastomers, the researchers found that they could increase the materials’ resistance…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is currently developing a Legal Metrology Publication Series: SP 2200 to provide stakeholders with current information on the status and development of U.S. and international…
(Pratt & Whitney: East Hartford, CT) -- Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems will be demonstrating the Labmaster Universal (model 175) at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago, Sept. 9–14, 2024. With more than 31 years in the field, the Labmaster Universal 175 is a…
William A. Levinson
‘Tech leaders issue warning: AI raises risk of extinction”1 comes across as another version of science fiction stories that have been around for decades about humans creating something greater than themselves that finally destroys them. Although it’s obviously risky to allow a computer to control…
