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(Leopard Imaging: Fremont, CA) -- Leopard Imaging, a leader in AI perception and spatial intelligence solutions, introduces the LI-DragonFire-VGA-GM2B, a high-performance uncooled infrared camera module designed for thermal imaging in industrial applications. Combining high-resolution thermal…
A new Financial Times analysis reports that U.S. technology companies have cut nearly 140,000 jobs in 2026 while pouring record sums into artificial intelligence infrastructure. The obvious story is that AI is replacing workers. The more important story is that executives are using AI to justify…
(IrisX : West Chester, OH) -- Engineering drawings are packed with critical manufacturing information, yet much of those data still has to be found, reviewed, and reentered by hand. IrisX changes that by turning engineering drawings into structured, reusable data for engineering, manufacturing, and…
In today’s politically correct business world, too many leaders are more concerned about not offending their employees than they are about helping them grow.
One of the biggest issues keeping teams from achieving greater success is a leader’s fear of mandating the activities and behaviors…
(EMG Presses: Marigny-Saint-Marcel, France) -- EMG Presses, a leading manufacturer of manual, pneumatic, mechanical, and hydropneumatic presses, is launching an innovation dedicated to the needs of monitoring and total traceability of industrial processes.
EMG offers a range of force and/or…
On April 2, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter to Purolea Cosmetics Lab, reference 722591-04022026. By now, most of you have heard the story. The company had used AI agents to write drug product specifications, procedures, and master production records. No qualified…
(ISO: Geneva) -- On Sept. 1, 2026, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), and the OpenWallet Foundation announced a landmark agreement to provide access worldwide to a set of key…
For decades, reverse engineering was a tool reserved for large manufacturers. Aerospace manufacturers leaned on it to keep aging fleets in service when computer-aided design (CAD) data were missing. Defense contractors relied on it to re-create components that had long outlived their original…
Consider an AI tool that delivers consistently accurate results and demonstrates impressive capabilities. If the people who are expected to rely on it can’t understand how decisions are reached or challenge outcomes that appear wrong, why would they trust it with an important decision? Would an…
(Caterpillar: Irving, TX) -- As industries face growing labor shortages and increasing productivity demands, Caterpillar is collaborating with FieldAI to advance physical AI, autonomy, and robotics that help job sites and factories operate more safely and more efficiently. By turning real-time…
(CADEXSOFT: Tallinn, Estonia) -- CADEXSOFT announces the release of Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.5, a CAD SDK for developers building quoting and MaaS platforms, with DFM checks, native B-Rep, feature recognition, and web visualization.
Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.5 highlights:• Sheet metal updates•…
Michele Gelfand has studied and taught negotiation for years. A professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, she sees negotiation as a skill that’s imperative for everyone to learn. “It’s not something we’re born with,” she says. “It’s something we learn over time…
(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- IDS Imaging Development Systems is expanding its 3D portfolio with Nion, an industrial time-of-flight (TOF) camera featuring 1.2-megapixel resolution and integrated depth processing.
It provides high-resolution and temporally stable depth information at 30 fps, even…
I’ve now watched every quality management concept I learned during my professional career unfold in my granddaughter’s first five months of life.
As I observed her feeding habits, sleeping routines, health monitoring, and interactions with her environment, I found remarkable similarities to…
(Trimedx: Indianapolis) -- Trimedx has introduced new agentic AI capabilities within the TMX Protect platform that help health systems more quickly identify, prioritize, and address medical-device cybersecurity risks, reducing remediation time for cybersecurity projects by 75% on average.
The new…
Walk any well-run plant and you’ll find statistical process control doing quiet, faithful work: control charts on the critical dimensions; capability studies before a line change; gage R&R before anyone trusts a measurement; out-of-control signals investigated; root causes found; corrective…
(Artec 3D: Luxembourg) -- Artec 3D, a global 3D scanning hardware and software leader, has announced the launch of Artec Neo. The first tolerance-driven 3D scanner, it unlocks a new approach to inspection and reverse engineering.
Artec Neo delivers metrology-grade accuracy of 0.025 mm and…
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has announced the launch of ISO 9001:2026—“Quality management systems—Requirements,” the new edition of the world’s leading quality management system standard.
Trusted by more than one million organizations worldwide, the…
When doctors need to deliver precise doses of medicine on a strict schedule, they often administer it intravenously. Intravenous drug delivery methods need to carefully control the flow of medicine into a patient. Knowing the medicine’s flow rate—or the volume of fluid flowing into the patient each…
(ForwardX Robotics: Beijing) -- As manufacturers increasingly automate existing facilities, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can improve internal material flow without major infrastructure changes. However, brownfield environments present challenges beyond robot navigation. Existing layouts, traffic…
Trust is the foundation of business and commerce. Every transaction, partnership, and working relationship depends, to some degree, on confidence that others will deliver on their commitments.
In business, we often focus on customer trust that products and services will meet their needs and…
(senswork: Johnson City, TN) -- senswork will showcase innovative solutions for industrial quality control at IMTS 2026, Sept. 14–19, at McCormick Place in Chicago. Two exhibits at Booth 135470 in the German Pavilion will demonstrate how AI-powered machine vision and high-resolution 3D inspection…
(1factory: Milpitas, CA) -- Most manufacturers run quality in two disconnected worlds. Compliance lives in one: procedures, training records, corrective actions, and audit documentation scattered across binders, shared drives, and stand-alone document systems. Shop-floor quality lives in the other…
Manufacturing has a people problem, but not in the way we usually talk about it.
We talk about the skilled-labor shortage. We talk about retirements. We talk about doing more with fewer people. Usually those are treated as separate problems.
They aren’t. Rather, they are compounding.
Deloitte and…
(Futuri: Austin, TX) -- Generative AI has collapsed the time required to build a convincing prototype, and with it the perceived cost of replacing purchased software with an internal build. Futuri’s caution to business leaders is that the prototype was never the expensive part: A demo assembled in…