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Highly reflective metallic surfaces are among the most challenging inspection targets in machine vision. Reflections obscure details; defects often become visible only from certain angles, and the quality of manual visual inspections fluctuates throughout the workday.
The Austrian company Danube…
(Kennametal: Pittsburgh) -- Kennametal has announced a breakthrough in additive manufacturing that enables the rapid production of custom carbide hole-finishing tools with advanced features such as optimized cooling channels and complex geometries.
The new technology, KAF82 TM, is the first…
(GageList: Spring, TX) -- GageList, the cloud-based calibration management platform, has launched Clarity AI, making GageList the first calibration management platform to read incoming calibration certificates with AI and draft the gauge records for human review. Clarity was previewed at the NCSLI…
In my earlier writing, I’ve leaned on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ladder. This is the closing move of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, where once you have climbed through the propositions you discard them because they have “served their purpose.” I’ve used this language game often enough that I want…
As AI matures, enterprises and customers are rapidly deploying agents seeking to unlock the next level of automation and productivity. Agentic AI shows potential to handle a multitude of use cases, from buying personal items on Amazon to customer service applications to enterprise security and…
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence business area has announced new research showing a gap between how manufacturers describe their operations and what’s actually happening on the production floor. Most manufacturers consider themselves connected, but responses…
As AI matures, enterprises and customers are rapidly deploying agents seeking to unlock the next level of automation and productivity. Agentic AI shows potential to handle a multitude of use cases, from buying personal items on Amazon to customer service applications to enterprise security and…
(Relay: Raleigh, N.C.) -- Relay, the system of action for physical operations, announced it has raised $36 million in new funding, bringing total capital raised to over $90 million. Relay’s latest funding round, which was significantly oversubscribed, represents a powerful alignment among industry…
When former United States secretary of state Madeleine Albright said, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” that quip captured a widespread expectation that women who reach the top should pull others up behind them. Yet it’s not uncommon for junior female employees…
When former United States secretary of state Madeleine Albright said, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” that quip captured a widespread expectation that women who reach the top should pull others up behind them. Yet it’s not uncommon for junior female employees…
When former United States secretary of state Madeleine Albright said, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” that quip captured a widespread expectation that women who reach the top should pull others up behind them. Yet it’s not uncommon for junior female employees…
(Datanomix: Nashua, NH) -- A programmer finishes a setup, the toolpath is proven, the print is attached, the setup sheet is written, and the NC program is generated. Then the files often move through a network drive, an email, or a USB stick, and nobody can say for certain which revision is running…
Projects go off the rails all the time. Some statistics I’ve seen say only one in eight projects can truly be declared successful.
Why are we so horrible at executing projects, especially when we have all these “tried and true” project management methodologies?
There are seven deadly killers of…
Establishing a long-term improvement effort is one of the best investments an organization can make. This is because almost all industries and businesses today are in, or facing, a major digital transformation where business models, services, and working methods are rapidly changing. To succeed in…
(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- Dust, moisture, and high-pressure cleaning place high demands on cameras used for industrial process monitoring.
With the new uEye SFA, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is expanding its uEye Live monitoring range with an especially robust model designed for…
Manufacturing in the U.S. is seeing its fastest growth in more than four years, driven in large part by rising demand for AI infrastructure. That expansion is arriving alongside severe supply shortages and higher input costs.
Manufacturers look to AI to increase capacity and operate more…
(MIT News: Cambridge, MA) -- Researchers have created a new technique that accurately and rapidly matches X-rays captured during surgery with a patient’s preoperative 3D medical scan. This method could make it easier for clinicians to precisely pilot minimally invasive surgical tools, leading to…
When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, it arrived as a research preview: a conversational system that could answer follow-up questions, draft fluent text, and give millions of people their first direct experience of generative AI. The early mood was experimental. People tested it, teased…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Our everyday life is flooded with photons, the quantum building blocks of light. For cutting-edge technology, from quantum computing to deep-tissue imaging, detecting every single photon counts.
“Photons carry information,” says Kristen Parzuchowski, a postdoctoral…
On March 3, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to Tentamus India Private Limited. The inspection it describes started the way most do, with one difference. At the initiation of the inspection, the agency’s investigator observed the firm attempting to remove…
(Maintain CMMS: London) -- Maintain CMMS is a web-based computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) platform built to help engineering teams replace spreadsheets and paper records with a single, practical system.
What the platform covers: • Work orders and technician planning• Sites, assets…
(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- IDS Imaging Development Systems (IDS) will showcase new camera platforms, technologies, and innovation projects for industrial image processing at VISION 2026, Booth 8C60, Messe Stuttgart, Oct. 6–8, 2026, in Stuttgart, Germany.
Under the theme “Trends. Innovations.…
At first glance, the next version of RC14001, the management standard for the chemical industry, looks like a simplification. In practice, it gives organizations more flexibility but also more responsibility. The revised standard no longer hands organizations a predefined list of stakeholder groups…
Board meetings are a total pain. They can also be some of the most powerful get-togethers for your company. The difference lies in how you approach the meeting itself.
Before you say, “I never present to the board,” and stop reading, allow me to expand the definition of a board meeting. A board…
(Optical Gaging Products: Rochester, NY) -- Optical Gaging Products (OGP), a leading manufacturer of precision optical and multisensor metrology systems, has introduced SmartScope E18, a high-capacity benchtop video measurement system that delivers fully automatic three-axis measurement performance…