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(Momentum Technologies: Carrollton, TX) -- Momentum Technologies, a critical minerals refining and recovery company, has announced a series of milestones. Using its proprietary MSX technology, the company produced some of the purest rare earths ever reported at its demonstration plant in Carrollton…
(Physik Instrumente: Shrewsbury, MA) -- Physik Instrumente (PI) has introduced the A-725, a five-axis air bearing nanopositioning system that pairs a true planar XY stage with an integrated parallel-kinematics Z-θX-θY module.
Designed and built in the U.S., PI’s 5-DOF stage targets semiconductor…
With the publication of the new VDA AIAG SPC Manual in July 2026, one of the most significant changes to statistical process control (SPC) in decades has been introduced. While much attention has been given to the new process capability indices, an equally important change is the introduction of a…
Medical device companies selling into multiple countries don’t answer to one global regulator. They navigate a patchwork of national requirements that two organizations are trying to align in very different ways.
The International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) and the Global…
(Info-Tech Research Group: Arlington, VA) -- Applications are now a primary target for threat actors, yet many organizations still rely on traditional secure software development life cycles (SSDLCs) that limit their ability to respond to evolving risk.
Recent research from Info-Tech Research…
(1factory: Milpitas, CA) -- 1factory, a leading provider of cloud-based quality management software for manufacturing, announced the availability of its FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent environment, providing aerospace and defense manufacturers with a secure deployment option designed to support…
When President Donald Trump announced a wave of tariffs in early 2025, he launched a war of words. Threats and counterthreats flew across the Atlantic and Pacific in a swirl of escalation, retaliation, and reprieve. Economists were hard-pressed to get a clear picture of what was happening beyond…
The ongoing AI boom seems to permeate, and sometimes call into doubt, every aspect of almost everybody’s profession.
Wonder what on earth comes next? You’d do well to ask Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D. He’s widely acknowledged for his expert reads on the future of work. In fact, the man dubbed “The Office…
The ongoing AI boom seems to permeate, and sometimes call into doubt, every aspect of almost everybody’s profession.
Wonder what on earth comes next? You’d do well to ask Gleb Tsipursky, Ph.D. He’s widely acknowledged for his expert reads on the future of work. In fact, the man dubbed “The Office…
(Artec 3D: Luxembourg) -- Global 3D scanning hardware and software leader Artec 3D has announced Artec Point II, the successor to Artec Point, its target-based handheld laser scanner for industrial metrology.
With an expanded laser configuration, Point II captures up to 5.8 million points per…
(Siborg: Waterloo, ON) -- Siborg Systems Inc. announced the renewal of its calibration certificate at Navair Technologies Inc. in Toronto, and the successful completion of performance testing for the new LCR-Reader-MPB all-in-one multimeter.
The latest model, built on the award-winning LCR-Reader-…
A CEO doesn’t need to read every AI law to understand why regulation matters. It shows up in subtler ways: a sales team using a chatbot with client data, a hiring manager testing an AI screening tool, a board member asking whether the company has an AI policy. AI governance has moved from the…
Some of my colleagues have recently been pushing multivariate charts. These charts combine several different process outcome values into a single number that’s placed on a chart. Unfortunately, this theoretically elegant approach breaks down in practice for reasons that will be explained here.
We…
(Petram: Jersey City, NJ; Creation-Space: Tel Aviv, Israel) -- Petram, a deep-tech venture, has won the Jonathan Merage Global Subsurface Tech Challenge and a $40,000 prize for a low-noise, electric rock-breaking technology built to serve heavy industry on Earth today and subsurface construction on…
(ATLANT 3D: Copenhagen, Denmark) -- ATLANT 3D has announced the launch of NANOFABRICATOR PRO, the world’s first and only physical platform for AI-driven materials discovery. The platform connects AI-driven materials discovery with programmable atomic-scale fabrication, experimental validation, and…
There’s a number that stopped me in my tracks recently. U.S. manufacturers spent about $32 billion training and upskilling their people—a 22% jump from 2019—and the average worker now logs close to five more training hours a year than they did back then, climbing from 42.9 hours to 47.6 (…
Ask a leadership team how many hours went into last quarter’s operating review. Then ask how many of those hours went into a problem the team had already solved once before. Watch how the room reacts to the second question.
That reaction is the tell. Most organizations don’t have language for it,…
(Scantron: Taunton, England) -- Scantron Industrial Products Ltd. announces the development and build of its Proscan DDMS 3D line Defect Detection and Measurement System (DDMS).
The DDMS 3D line is an advanced, fully automated solution designed to deliver exceptional accuracy, speed, and…
(Michigan Metrology: Livonia, MI) -- Michigan Metrology, provider of surface texture measurement, consulting, and training, is presenting a new, free webinar series.
In the “Surface Roughness, Texture, and Tribology” series, Don Cohen will present excerpts from the short course of the same name.…
Product compliance is moving beyond certificates and restricted-substance checks. PFAS restrictions, digital product passports, artificial intelligence, supply-chain transparency, and sustainability increasingly require manufacturers to connect regulatory knowledge with reliable product, material,…
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”—Michael Corleone, The Godfather: Part III
If you’ve ever moved to a new role in your company, you’ve probably felt like Michael Corleone at some point. The folks from your old role keep sucking you back in, asking for help, asking you to…
(Propel: Redwood City, CA) -- Propel, creator of the first product value management (PVM) platform to transform how manufacturers develop, launch, and service products, has announced its release of Propel Manufacturing Hub. It supports engineering and production by integrating PLM with multiple ERP…
In the electrotechnology sector, we know one thing for certain: Trust can’t be imposed; it must be built. Standardization enables us to build it every day. As the world grapples with climate, digital, and societal challenges, manufacturers, electricity producers, grid operators, conformity…
(FARO CREAFORM: Lévis, QC) -- FARO CREAFORM, a business of AMETEK and a global provider of 3D scanning and portable CMM solutions, announces the launch of MetraSCAN BLACK2, a portable, metrology-grade optical 3D scanner engineered to deliver total inspection flexibility on the shop floor. Designed…
Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as for airplane or automobile components. To simulate how those components will perform in realistic situations, they’ll use tried-and-true computer-aided design (CAD) software to generate 3D models of those designs that they…