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Octave is taking AI-driven innovation seriously: That much was clear from its OctaveLive keynote this summer in Austin, Texas, where the focus remained on amplifying human capability as well as hiring more people, not fewer, to maintain quality.
Vick Vaishnavi, the head of Octave Reliance, took…
Octave is taking AI-driven innovation seriously: That much was clear from its OctaveLive keynote this summer in Austin, Texas, where the focus remained on amplifying human capability as well as hiring more people, not fewer, to maintain quality.
Vick Vaishnavi, the head of Octave Reliance, took…
(Artec 3D: Luxembourg) -- Artec 3D, a global developer and manufacturer of professional 3D hardware and software, has launched Artec Twins, a new platform for working with massive 3D environments at a previously impossible scale and speed.
Artec 3D has spent 20 years building precision into 3D…
A longtime raw-material supplier exits the market, and a manufacturer needs a replacement quickly. The new supplier completes a questionnaire, receives approval, and begins shipping. Months later, delivery slips and defects increase. A broad audit produces a passing score, but the problems continue…
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and their collaborators received a 2026 Award for Composites Excellence (ACE) Award for developing a large-format, 3D-printed, water-soluble polymer mandrel for manufacturing lightweight…
If you engage in a game of word association, chances are when you hear the term Formula 1, responses will be terms associated with speed: race car, acceleration, fast, momentum, velocity...
But as much as Formula 1 is about speed, it’s also about controlling and channeling that speed with…
Manufacturing Day fell on Oct. 2 this year. Manufacturers opened their doors and showed the public what modern manufacturing looks like, and, hopefully, built some interest in manufacturing careers.
Visitors saw robots, sensors, software, and connected production systems. What they may not have…
(Danaher: Washington, DC) -- Danaher Corp. announces plans to launch its first AI-powered autonomous lab, designed to help researchers develop custom antibodies and other molecular tools faster and more efficiently.
Expected to operate at scale in early 2027, the lab will combine artificial…
Recent cyberattacks on U.S. water and wastewater systems (WWS) are highlighting the escalating threat to our nation’s critical infrastructure and the practical challenges of securing it.
These incidents underscore an important challenge: The connectivity that utilities depend upon must be designed…
(Mitutoyo: Dresden, Germany) -- Mitutoyo, a global leader in precision measurement and metrology, is strengthening its commitment to the semiconductor industry with the opening of a new Semiconductor Competence Center in Dresden, Germany.
Located at the heart of Silicon Saxony, one of Europe’s…
Recent cyberattacks on U.S. water and wastewater systems (WWS) are highlighting the escalating threat to our nation’s critical infrastructure and the practical challenges of securing it.
These incidents underscore an important challenge: The connectivity that utilities depend upon must be designed…
Recent cyberattacks on U.S. water and wastewater systems (WWS) are highlighting the escalating threat to our nation’s critical infrastructure and the practical challenges of securing it.
These incidents underscore an important challenge: The connectivity that utilities depend upon must be designed…
(Ott In-Situ: Fort Collins, CO) -- Ott In-Situ announces the release of the Deployment Report, a new feature of In-Situ’s VuSitu mobile app. The Deployment Report automatically compiles instrument settings, site details, and field notes into a single, consolidated record the moment a technician…
When a time series displays a pattern that repeats itself periodically it is said to have seasonal effects. The word seasonal may apply to days, weeks, months, quarters, or any pattern that recurs regularly throughout the data. While these seasonal effects will complicate our analysis, their…
(Interplay Learning: Austin, TX) --Interplay Learning, a leader in immersive learning for the skilled trades and industrial crafts, announces the launch of Skill Verification, a simulation-based assessment tool that enables organizations to evaluate an individual’s ability to perform trades-…
Before something important leaves the ground, someone has to be willing to ask an uncomfortable question: What could make this fail?
That question takes on a different meaning when the “something” is a spacecraft.
During the development of NASA’s X-43A, an experimental hypersonic aircraft, the…
(ANSI: New York) -- Additive manufacturing (AM) is changing how the world creates, from heart valves to jet engine components. Standards are what allow these innovations to move from prototype to production safely and at scale.
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and America Makes…
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, all the dithering about remote work stopped virtually overnight. Working from home wasn’t perfect, but people made it work.
At first, remote employees were triumphant as they checked off their personal and professional to-do lists from the comfort…
(Hexagon: London) -- New data from an international study by Hexagon, a global leader in measurement technologies, suggests the world’s first “robot generation” has arrived.
Across nine countries, children are growing up with fundamentally different expectations of robotics than today’s adults,…
In this article I’ll be looking at the shape of this question regarding complexity that comes from Plato. In the Euthyphro dialogue, Socrates asks whether a thing is pious because the gods love it, or the gods love it because it is pious. If piety is defined by the gods’ love, it has no ground of…
On Sept. 16, 2026, ISO published the sixth edition of ISO 9001. Within days, the summaries arrived: what changed in Clause 5, what the new Annex A says, how the 2024 climate amendment carries forward. They’re useful, but they answer the questions certified organizations ask least often. The…
(Dürr: Southfield, MI) -- Dürr is expanding its dispensing technology portfolio with the EcoMeter XS, a compact microdispensing unit that automatically applies very small quantities of adhesives, sealants, and other high-viscosity materials. The system primarily serves manufacturers of battery and…
Adding a control element to any system may seem like an easy path, even a necessary one. Redundancy reassures the stakeholders and the auditors, and it might become a sales pitch for the customers. Removing such elements is, on the other hand, more challenging; it’s an effort that requires…
(Enviropass Expertise Inc.: Mount Royal, QC) -- Enviropass Expertise, a Canadian environmental product-compliance consultancy and testing laboratory, has published findings from its January–August 2026 project portfolio, examining practical compliance challenges involving RoHS, REACH, PFAS,…
Most shops accept a gauge the same way. They run a gauge repeatability and reproducibility (gauge R&R) study with 10 parts, three appraisers, and three trials. Get a %GRR under 30. File the report and move on. The AIAG criteria are familiar: Under 10% is generally acceptable, 10%–30% may be…