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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…
(Monport Laser: Seattle) -- Monport Laser, a leading provider of laser engraving solutions, has launched new medium laser engravers. Designed to meet the growing demand for high-quality engraving in various industries, these machines offer precision, versatility, and user-friendliness for…
Stephanie Ojeda
The number of ISO 45001 certificates is growing fast, jumping 54% from 2020 to 2021, according to the ISO Survey.
This occupational health and safety standard is especially prevalent in manufacturing, where managing safety incidents is a core concern from the perspective of protecting workers,…
Kelley Jacobsen
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, medical device supply chains are one of the top priorities for health system leaders. Amid supply chain disruptions during the pandemic, hospitals scrambled to find enough devices to keep up with unprecedented demand. The global crisis revealed gaps in standard…
Emily Newton
Pumping systems are critical to many manufacturing operations. Consequently, any errors with this equipment can be costly. So, it’s important to catch oddities as soon as they occur. The internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) enable that kind of pump anomaly detection.…
(Marcum: New York) -- The results of Marcum’s 2023 National Manufacturing Survey, which features responses from hundreds of manufacturing CEOs and leaders nationwide, paint a mixed picture of confidence and concern against a backdrop of economic and technological changes. The Consumer and…
(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata Inc., a leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on PLM (product life cycle management) and the digital transformation it enables, announced that it will offer its PLM certificate program in Santa Clara, California, from Dec. 4–Dec. 8, 2023…
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has chosen nine manufacturing startups for its third Sixth Sense cohort. The selected companies were selected from a competitive pool of hundreds of applicants, distinguishing themselves with groundbreaking solutions…
Mike Figliuolo
Stupid stuff is going to happen. Expect it. It’s part of our complex and highly interdependent world. People will make mistakes. A lot of them. Layer on top of that some incredibly politically charged cultures (for more on that subject see “Hot Heads and Karma”), and there’s an abundance of…
Jones Loflin
I’ve been dabbling in AI (or ChatGPT as some of you may call it) for about eight months. I’ve used it to strengthen blog titles, make content “punchier,” and help me get some creative juices flowing.
However, by far my favorite thing to do with it is to ask it to explain a complex topic to a 5-…
(Blackwatch International: McLean, VA) -- Blackwatch International Corp. has been awarded a five-year, single-award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with a $96.9 million ceiling for Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) to support the Advanced Reconfigurable…
NIST
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- In movies, when we see fiery car crashes or flaming planes on runways, we know they aren’t real. But in the real world, fuel fires must be quenched with special kinds of chemicals, and the ones that have been most commonly used are known as aqueous film-forming foams (…
Donald J. Wheeler
Many articles and some textbooks describe process behavior charts as a manual technique for keeping a process on target. For example, in Norway the words used for SPC (statistical process control) translate as “statistical process steering.” Here, we’ll look at using a process behavior chart to…
