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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…
The easiest AI costs to count could become the least important part of the story. SemiAnalysis gives a better name to the harder problem: dark output, the economic value created by AI that remains invisible or badly distorted in GDP, price measures, labor data, and industry accounts.
A company can…
(Platinum Tooling: Prospect Heights, IL) -- Heimatec, a world leader in live tools, angle heads, and multispindle drill heads, has announced immediate availability of its popular u-tec flexible changing system on all live tools in the company’s product line.
Tools are now available for the most…
(Baldrige Foundation: Washington, DC) -- The Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, known as the Baldrige Foundation, has released the 2026 Baldrige Excellence Framework for Business, Nonprofit, and Government organizations.
The new edition, developed in close partnership with…
At a typical manufacturer, the cost of poor quality runs to 15–20% of sales. Shellye Archambeau, a Quality Digest contributor, once put a face on that number: A $250 million company added up its repair, rework, scrap, warranty, and write-off costs, and found they equaled 20% of sales. That’s one…
A foundry can produce an impressive inspection package and still leave its customer with an unanswered question: Which records actually supported the decision to ship this part?
An alloy chemistry report might identify a melt. An X-ray image could show one internal area. A coordinate measuring…
(Genesis AEC: Blue Bell, PA) -- Genesis AEC, a consulting engineering firm specializing in pharmaceutical water and utility systems, is highlighting its PharmaWater Pro modeling capability as part of its consulting services for pharmaceutical manufacturers planning new facilities or evaluating…
From disagreements over the right strategy to heated recriminations following a project failure, conflicts are a regular part of business life. But most leaders and teams view conflict as a negative that should be avoided at all costs. When disputes do occur, leaders are often quick to apportion…
From disagreements over the right strategy to heated recriminations following a project failure, conflicts are a regular part of business life. But most leaders and teams view conflict as a negative that should be avoided at all costs. When disputes do occur, leaders are often quick to apportion…
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence has announced the availability of Hexagon Connected Worker Integration, a lightweight middleware platform that connects manufacturing software, enterprise business systems, industrial equipment, and…
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…
(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…
(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…
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…
(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…
(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…
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…
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…
(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-…
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…
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 (…
(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…