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What’s truly holding your discrete manufacturing shop back from reaching its full potential? It’s often not the commonly cited culprits like labor shortages, razor-thin margins, or fierce competition. It’s more often paper: the unseen, insidious enemy.
Imagine your shop floor: stacks of traveler…
(Mahr: Providence, RI) – Mahr, a leading provider of dimensional metrology solutions, presents the MarSurf M 510 Series, a new mobile surface measuring instrument designed for versatility.
Lightweight, compact, and with the smallest skidless probe system available on the market, the MarSurf M 510…
The conversation about generative AI (gen AI) is unavoidable in today’s business landscape. It’s disruptive, transformative, and packed with potential—both thrilling and intimidating.
As organizations adopt gen AI to streamline operations, develop products, or enhance customer interactions, the…
In this article I’m looking at a question that’s rarely asked in management: What if the most responsible course of action isn’t to maximize benefit, but to minimize harm? In decision theory, this is expressed as the minimax principle. The idea is that one should minimize the worst possible outcome…
(Vision Engineering: New Milford, CT) -- Vision Engineering, a global leader in ergonomic microscopy, stereo imaging, and metrology solutions, announces the launch of ProteQ VISO, a groundbreaking 3D digital stereo microscope featuring a fully integrated autostereo display. The system delivers true…
(Hexagon: North Kingston, RI) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has released the Geomagic Design X 2025.1, the industry-leading reverse engineering software that transforms 3D scan data into precise CAD models. This latest version delivers significant performance improvements, new…
At the corner of quality and assembly, design engineers are frequently confronted with unexpected, complex fluid process issues in the prototyping phase. These obstacles are reflected in voice-of-customer sprints and surveys revealing that medical devices companies in particular stall out in the…
Even the smallest manufacturer would never consider using a typewriter to develop an invoice, or manage a sales prospect list from a Rolodex. So why, when it comes to quality management, are they often still using manual methods or home-brewed software that was never intended for today’s quality…
(Rockwell: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation, one of the world’s largest companies dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, has announced a breakthrough in bringing generative AI directly to the industrial edge. Rockwell introduces its integration of NVIDIA Nemotron Nano: a…
(CADEXSOFT: Tallinn, Estonia) -- CADEXSOFT has announced the release of Manufacturing Toolkit 2025.7: a CAD SDK for developers building quoting, DFM, and MaaS platforms.
MTK Workbench initial release
MTK 2025.7 introduces MTK Workbench—a desktop application for viewing, testing, and deeply…
Amidst uncertainty in manufacturing, AI adoption, labor market fluctuations, and salary disparities across industries and geographic regions, quality professional compensation can be difficult to navigate.
Without current job-level salary benchmarks, quality professionals from technicians to…
One of the principles for understanding data is that while some data contain signals, all data contain noise. Therefore, before you can detect the signals you’ll have to filter out the noise. This act of filtration is the essence of all data analysis techniques. It’s the foundation for our use of…
(Info-Tech Research Group: Toronto) -- Manufacturers seeking to modernize their operations and remain competitive in an evolving global market need to accelerate the adoption of digital systems, according to recent research insights from Info-Tech Research Group. The firm’s recently published…
(QAD Inc.: Santa Barbara, CA) -- QAD, a company transforming manufacturing and supply chains with intelligent, adaptive solutions, has outlined a bold shift to a reimagined manufacturing platform designed specifically for midmarket manufacturing companies and the plant facilities of large…
Staff meetings can be incredibly productive. Or unproductive—and more often the latter. If your staff meetings are terrible, it’s your fault because you’re not structuring them well.
One of the most surreal business experiences I’ve ever had relates to a staff meeting. I’d joined a new team, and…
Quality has always been a defining metric in manufacturing when it comes to industry trust, brand longevity, and customer loyalty. Manufacturers are already expected to abide by stringent regulations. But as economic complexity rises and experienced operators retire, maintaining consistent quality…
(Leopard Imaging: Fremont, CA) -- Leopard Imaging, a global leader in embedded AI vision solutions, announces the launch of its comprehensive portfolio of camera solutions based on Hyperlux ID, Hyperlux LP, and Hyperlux LH image sensors from onsemi—delivering next-generation performance for…
(Global Shop Solutions: The Woodlands, TX) -- Global Shop Solutions, a leading provider of ERP software for manufacturers worldwide, has announced two new AI-powered features designed to make everyday manufacturing processes faster, more accurate, and easier to manage.
AI Accounts Payable (AP)…
From manufacturing and mining to hospitality and healthcare, computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) have become all but essential. Wherever there are assets to maintain, a CMMS plays a critical role in reducing downtime, controlling costs, and keeping operations running smoothly.
But…
Physical AI—the embedding of digital intelligence into physical systems—is a promising but sometimes polarizing technology. Optimists point to the upside of combining AI and physical hardware: robot-assisted disaster zone evacuations, drone deliveries of critical supplies, and driver assistance…
Physical AI—the embedding of digital intelligence into physical systems—is a promising but sometimes polarizing technology. Optimists point to the upside of combining AI and physical hardware: robot-assisted disaster zone evacuations, drone deliveries of critical supplies, and driver assistance…
(Artec 3D: Luxembourg) -- Global 3D scanning leader Artec 3D has launched Artec Studio Lite, a new, more accessible version of its industry-renowned 3D data capture and processing software.
Officially unveiled at last month’s Formnext trade show in Frankfurt, Germany, Artec Studio Lite makes…
In this article, I want to explore an idea that often is framed in moral terms but is actually a cybernetic imperative: the necessity of diversity for viable systems. Whether we’re talking about societies, organizations, or even artificial intelligence systems, the principle remains consistent. A…
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- MIT researchers have developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, raising the possibility that it could be used as a protective coating to prevent solar cells and other infrastructure from corrosion, and to slow the aging of packaged…
From the internet and smartphones to 3D printing, recent decades have ushered in general-purpose technology that increases efficiency and collapses the cost of routine tasks. The latest general-purpose technology—you guessed it, generative AI (gen AI)—has the potential to also extend the frontiers…