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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…
(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…
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…
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…
(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…
(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…
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…
(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,…
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…
(ISO: Geneva) -- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has adopted the Paris Statement, reaffirming the role of international standards in supporting global efforts to build greater resilience, adapt to climate change, and protect nature.
The ISO Annual Meeting 2026 was hosted…
M ore than 80% of restructuring efforts in firms fail. Most explanations focus on poor execution or bad strategy. Our research points to something more uncomfortable: Embarking on organizational transformation isn’t always a rational response to a business challenge but can be a defensive reaction…
M ore than 80% of restructuring efforts in firms fail. Most explanations focus on poor execution or bad strategy. Our research points to something more uncomfortable: Embarking on organizational transformation isn’t always a rational response to a business challenge but can be a defensive reaction…
(AI4RVI Inc.: Chester, NJ) -- AI4RVI has announced the launch of Edgevision, a next-generation remote visual inspection (RVI) system built to deliver true high-definition imaging of boiler, heat exchanger, and other tube interior conditions. The system was rolled out at the American Society for…
M ore than 80% of restructuring efforts in firms fail. Most explanations focus on poor execution or bad strategy. Our research points to something more uncomfortable: Embarking on organizational transformation isn’t always a rational response to a business challenge but can be a defensive reaction…
(PI: Shrewsbury, MA) -- Physik Instrumente (PI) is expanding its bi-phase inertia drive (BIX) technology with new motor architectures for compact, high-precision nanopositioning. Building on the B-421 BIX nanopositioning stages, PI engineers have demonstrated new BIX-based designs for higher-force…