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(SwipeGuide: Amsterdam) -- Manufacturing excellence depends on the ability to make sure everyone can perform the task at hand in a safe and compliant manner. Unfortunately, in a world of labor shortage and high employee turnover, this isn’t always a simple task. Dutch-American B2B SaaS scale-up…
InnovMetric
Today, manufacturing companies have sophisticated 3D measurement labs with portable and CNC coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), laser scanners, laser trackers, and digital gauges, and every brand of hardware uses its own software solution. When relying on multiple software programs, multiple…
Peter Nathanial, David Zuluaga Martínez, Theodoros Evgeniou, Francois Candelon
Last month, the heads of seven major American AI companies emerged from the White House with an agreement on “self-regulation.” On the other side of the Atlantic, Europeans debate the long-awaited EU AI Act, the next major digital regulation following the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA is…
MIT News
The Singapore MIT-Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, has launched a new interdisciplinary research group aimed at tackling key social and institutional challenges around the rise of artificial intelligence and other new technologies. The group,…
(MAG Automotive: Sterling Heights, MI) -- MAG Automotive, an FFG company, will host the grand opening of its new North America Technology Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Oct. 17 and 18, 2023. The latest building expansion at the MAG Automotive facility is designed to highlight and…
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw, pioneer in combining Raman spectroscopy with scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), has launched the inLux SEM Raman interface. Adding the inLux interface enables in situ Raman spectroscopy for highly specific chemical and structural characterization that…
Gleb Tsipursky
Many employees are asking, “Do we really need to go to the office?” as the leadership at major companies like Amazon, Apple, Disney, Starbucks, and JP Morgan mandate three or more days a week of office-based work. Employees are adamant that they are doing their jobs effectively at home, and data…
Del Williams
To move delicate products or powders, most processors do extensive homework before purchasing a tubular drag-cable conveyor to ensure that it meets their needs for function and price. After the purchase, the conveyor must be expertly assembled and tested to ensure smooth production startup and…
(Revelation Machinery: Chicago) -- The Revelation Machinery 2023 Manufacturing Scholarship is now open to all current or incoming college students enrolled full-time in manufacturing or engineering programs.
Revelation Machinery is a used CNC, fabrication, and process equipment dealer offering a…
(Kneat: Limerick, Ireland) -- Kneat, a leader in digitizing and automating validation and quality processes, is bringing together quality professionals from around the world to discover and apply validation technologies, regulations, and best practices. Participants from across the industry will…
William A. Levinson
Inflation is a serious national issue. Credit agency Fitch Ratings just downgraded the U.S. credit rating—as in the “full faith and credit of the United States”—from AAA to AA+.1 This doubtlessly reflects the fact that our national debt exceeds $31 trillion, or almost $100,000 for every American,…
Vivian Lam
The microscope is an iconic symbol of the life sciences, and for good reason. From the discovery of the existence of cells to the structure of DNA, microscopy has been a quintessential tool of the field, unlocking new dimensions of the living world not only for scientists but also for the general…
(Omnex: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Omnex has announced its latest webinar, “Enterprise Digitalization of Audits & Best Audit Practices.”
Date and time: Sept. 28, 2023, 11:00 a.m. Eastern
Speakers: Andrei Samoila and Roy Gray
Enterprisewide digitalization of audits has proved to be crucial for any kind…
Chandrakant Isi
Apple’s Vision Pro announcement has sparked a renewed interest in the world of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Looking through the lens of industrial environments, these technologies have already made significant contributions in manufacturing, maintenance, and training processes.…
Enver Yucesan
It’s frustrating for customers to be told that a coveted mobile phone is out of stock, or worse, be bumped off an overbooked flight. Disgruntled consumers could turn to rival products or hurt the business’s reputation with negative reviews. But holding excess stock to avoid disappointing customers…
(NewTek Sensor Solutions: Pennsauken, NJ) -- Major chemical companies are using hazardous location position sensors from NewTek Sensor Solutions to monitor the state of different valves throughout their plants as part of process safety and efficiency management.
Chemical plants using potentially…
(Renishaw: West Dundee, IL) -- Renishaw’s new central manufacturing connectivity and data platform is poised to transform the productivity, capability, and efficiency of manufacturing operations. The new data-driven manufacturing solution brings the power of connectivity to the machine shop floor,…
Gleb Tsipursky
Have you wondered how to foster remote and hybrid diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace? Many companies have consulted with me about developing and implementing their strategies for returning to the office and establishing permanent work arrangements. During my interviews with…
Stephanie Ojeda
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Workplace safety incidents are a key driver of risk in manufacturing organizations. There are the obvious risks to workers, whose ability to make a living directly depends on their employer’s approach to safety.
There are also huge risks to companies themselves, which face…
Vanessa Bates Ramirez
If you’ve seen the Terminator movies, you may remember the shape-shifting humanoid robot T-1000. Made of liquid metal, it could instantly self-heal bullet wounds and other injuries, its metal simply oozing back together and making any damage disappear. Decades after the concept of self-healing…
(Nikon Industrial Metrology: Brighton, MI) -- The Industrial Metrology business unit of Nikon Corp. has released the automatic wafer measurement system NEXIV VMZ-NWL 200 to solve the challenges of wafer metrology in the semiconductor back-end process, where more work is traditionally carried out…
(DeltaTrak: Modesto, CA) -- DeltaTrak is introducing the FlashTrak Chain of Custody (CoC) real-time traceability solution. With FlashTrak CoC, you can manage, integrate, and share product traceability data across the whole supply chain process. From the grower to the consumer, the CoC brings…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- A new nanoscience study led by a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory takes a big-picture look at how scientists study materials at the smallest scales.
The paper, published in Science Advances, reviews leading work in subsurface…
Mark Graban
I can’t count how many times during the past 20 years I’ve heard executives complain that their people aren’t enthusiastically participating in their lean program. Leaders lament that while the company has spent a small fortune to put everybody through continuous improvement training, hardly…
Michael Platt, Elizabeth Z. Johnson
Most leaders would attest that true collaboration—the pooling of knowledge, perspectives, and brainpower of talented people—is a desired yet often elusive outcome. To change that, and boost the likelihood of generating breakthrough results, draw on parallels with improvisational jazz during your…
