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How do health and safety incidents affect your business? If a worker is injured or becomes ill, what kind of disruption does it cause? Is your productivity affected? What’s the effect on other workers in terms of workload or psychological health and well-being?
People are the foundation of every…
Michael Mills
Risk-based thinking—it sounds easy. How hard can it be to think about risk? But did you know that the phrase “risk-based thinking” was only invented in 2015?
Did you know that the ISO says “risk-based thinking” is one of the foundations of quality management, but never defines it? Or that it…
Quality Digest
(Teledyne: Waterloo, ON) -- Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and leader in machine vision, has announced the Tetra line scan camera family. Designed for a wide range of machine vision applications, Tetra leverages Teledyne’s latest multiline CMOS image sensor technology and builds on…
Quality Digest
(Physik Instrumente: Auburn, MA) -- Physik Instrumente (PI), a leader in precision motion control and nanopositioning solutions, provides one of the most advanced multi-axis nanopositioning systems in the world, the P-562.6CD 6-Axis Nanopositioning Stage. Among the industries PI serves are…
Chip Bell
Innovation is vital to the success of all businesses. Innovate or perish is the new mantra. Leaders must perpetually reinvent their processes, products, and services, because they typically have multiple competitors offering similar offerings. Only through innovation can most organizations…
Quality Digest
(IndySoft: Charleston, SC) – IndySoft, a global leader in calibration and asset management software, has introduced the IndySoft Scales Calibration App—a fast, easy-to-use solution designed to help scale-calibration companies maximize accuracy, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
Built to…
Scott Ginsberg
Manufacturers face a critical challenge: capturing, standardizing, and scaling workforce knowledge. Skilled workers are retiring, and labor shortages are persisting. Outdated, paper-based documentation can no longer keep up. These methods create bottlenecks that slow productivity and make vital…
Creaform
Clarkson University is a private national research university in upstate New York and a leader in technological education. As one of the many Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design (SPEED), the Clarkson University Clean Snowmobile Team is a student-led initiative driven by a passion…
Quality Digest
(ATS: Peoria, IL) -- Advanced Technology Services (ATS), a leader in industrial maintenance and reliability solutions, continues setting the standard for workplace safety and employee well-being through its Beyond Zero Challenge. This annual initiative, designed to promote physical, emotional,…
Felipe Monteiro
Global risks are rising, and many companies are struggling to adapt. The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Global Risks Report makes it clear that challenges like escalating global tensions and conflicts, climate change, economic instability, and supply chain disruptions are interconnected and build on…
Quality Digest
(InventHelp: Pittsburgh) -- “I wanted to create a new tool for taking measurements at great distances, where normal laser devices would be limited to short-distance restrictions,” says an inventor from Miami. “So I invented the MEASURE-LITE. My design increases accuracy, and it eliminates the need…
Gleb Tsipursky
One transformative strategy that can revolutionize how organizations embrace generative AI is peer mentoring. By leveraging the power of personal connections and shared expertise, peer mentoring accelerates learning, fosters collaboration, and fuels innovation. When mastering gen AI tools can mean…
Quality Digest
(Sandvik Coromat: Mebane, NC) -- Sandvik Coromant, a leader in metal-cutting tools, has introduced the CoroDrill Dura 462 drilling family with more than 2,000 assorted sizes for a diverse range of materials and applications. With new advanced coating technology, extended tool life, and easy…
Quality Digest
(Mitutoyo: Aurora, IL) -- Mitutoyo America Corp., a leading manufacturer of precision metrology instruments and solutions, has added a new Surface Roughness Tester SJ-220 Series to its line of form measuring instruments, providing compatibility and versatility to meet the diverse needs of…
Seb Murray
What happens when workplace colleagues land on opposing sides of an external competition? Henning Piezunka, an associate professor of management at Wharton, tackles this question in a recent study, using sports data to shed light on how outside rivalries can shape collaboration within the workplace…
Quality Digest
(PIPA LLC: Davis, CA) -- PIPA, a leader in enterprise intelligence for the food and nutrition industry, has launched the Digital Extruder platform. The new SaaS offering helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies accelerate product innovation, improve production efficiency, and satisfy growing…
Torsten Schimanski
Workforce development is an essential yet frequently overlooked aspect of supply chain management in manufacturing. Similar to how disruptions in material sourcing or logistics can halt operations, talent shortages and skill gaps create bottlenecks that jeopardize efficiency, quality, and growth. …
Donald J. Wheeler
Outliers are values that don’t “fit in” with the rest of the data. These extreme values are commonly considered a nuisance when we seek to summarize the data with our descriptive statistics. This article will show how to turn these nuisances into useful information.
The earliest statistical tests…
Quality Digest
(Platinum Tooling: Prospect Heights, IL) -- Platinum Tooling Technologies, importer and master distributor of live tools, angle heads, Swiss machine products, knurling, and marking tools manufactured by various international suppliers, will exhibit its extensive inventory of machine tool…
Steven Ouellette
Many industries, from aerospace to medical device manufacturing, are required to show customers, auditors, or regulatory bodies that their measurement devices are acceptable for use. But how do you prove that?
One of my clients needed to show the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development…
Quality Digest
(IDBS: Woking, England; Boston) -- BioIVT, a leading provider of in vitro ADME research services, has successfully completed a collaboration with IDBS to implement the IDBS E-WorkBook platform, significantly reducing study times by at least 30%. The project has enabled BioIVT to enhance efficiency…
Oliver Franz
Maybe you’re pulling reports from three different platforms, trying to reconcile numbers that don’t quite match. Maybe you’re manually copying and pasting from multiple spreadsheets, hoping you didn’t introduce any errors along the way. Or maybe you’re waiting on IT to clean up, prep data, and…
Quality Digest
(MIT Technology Review Insights: Cambridge, MA) -- A new report by MIT Technology Review Insights seeks to understand how the food industry can use AI to help meet the increasing global demand for nutritious, affordable produce, ensure resilient supplies, and minimize its effects on the environment…
IDS Imaging Development Systems
The slit-lamp examination is one of the most important diagnostic techniques in ophthalmology. It enables a detailed examination of the anterior, middle, and posterior segments of the eye. Ophthalmologists can use it to recognize the smallest changes, anomalies, or damage. This procedure is used…
Jennifer Chu
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- We move thanks to coordination among many skeletal muscle fibers, all twitching and pulling in sync. While some muscles align in one direction, others form intricate patterns, helping parts of the body move in multiple ways.
In recent years, scientists and engineers have…
