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Southern politicians often have a homespun way of making a point. A few years ago, a candidate for a small-town sheriff’s election was overheard saying, “Criticize my drawl, you make me laugh. Criticize my views, you make me listen. But criticize my mama and you’re asking for a fight.”
Customer…
(Hexagon: Stockholm) -- Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence’s Stationary Metrology division announces the launch of PC-DMIS FUSION. It provides PC-DMIS users with real-time information, visualization, insights, and SPC analysis to enable increased productivity based on data-driven decision making…
Torque wrenches—and the people who use them to build and maintain planes—are unsung heroes of the skies.
Torque wrenches measure the force that causes an object to rotate. Aircraft mechanics use torque wrenches to ensure that bolts and fasteners on planes are correctly tightened. Without them, a…
(MIT News: Cambridge, MA ) -- Across the Milky Way galaxy, a planetary odd couple is circling a star some 190 light years from Earth. A normally “lonely” hot Jupiter is sharing space with a mini-Neptune in a rare and unlikely pairing that’s had astronomers puzzled since the system’s discovery in…
Digital transformation has stopped being a trend and become a condition for competitiveness. In practically every sector, including manufacturing, automotive, food and beverage, healthcare, and logistics, the pace of technological change is redefining what it means to manage quality with excellence…
(XD Thermal: Suzhou, China) -- XD Thermal Technology, a thermal management manufacturer, has advanced its side-cooling solutions for cylindrical cell-to-pack battery packs. Large-scale production capacity and automotive-grade process control are positioning the company as a key supplier.
In super-…
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- Found Industries has gone through several distinct phases in the four years since it was originally formed as Found Energy. There was the scrappy startup stage, during which the company was primarily housed in the basement of founder Peter Godart. Then there was the…
The era of the unlimited, always-on, general-purpose AI agent is ending. Subscriptions weren’t priced for behavior that never sleeps, and a monthly plan burning thousands of dollars in computation was never going to survive the unit economics.
If you’ve tried to get an AI pilot past Phase One,…
(Advantive: Tampa, FL) -- Advantive has announced the launch of Advantive ONE, a unified intelligence layer that runs across Advantive’s entire portfolio of industry-specific software. By connecting data throughout systems, Advantive ONE empowers businesses to make faster, smarter decisions,…
Happy spring! Here’s a story about “Toast Kaizen” that I’ve never told.
In 1998, as general manager at a medium-size manufacturing company, I created the original toast video for my management team. I was trying to get them out of their offices to “go see” not only the factory floor but their own…
(QALogger.com: Irvine, CA) -- QALogger.com has announced the launch of its cloud-based digital logbook platform, engineered to help small manufacturing businesses transition from manual, paper-based record-keeping to a streamlined, audit-ready digital environment.
For small manufacturers with 1–…
Jack Welch, the legendary General Electric CEO, was infamous for firing the bottom 10% of his workforce every year, without exception. The company’s market cap rose substantially during Welch’s tenure, but his “rank and yank” ritual was divisive.
If you knew your job was always on the line, the…
(Morningstar CAM Solutions : Albemarle, NC) -- Morningstar CAM Solutions, a leading provider of CAD and CAM software and services, announces a partnership with HCL CAMWorks.
The partnership will provide potential customers with turnkey, proven solutions integrating industry-standard SOLIDWORKS 3D…
Software is eating the world, venture capitalist and entrepreneur Marc Andreessen famously declared in 2011. The ensuing 15 years proved him prescient. In February 2026, a Substack article by Citrini Research grabbed headlines and triggered a market sell-off of SaaS (software-as-a-service) firms,…
Growth has a way of outpacing the quality systems built to support it: more products, more sites, more users, more regulatory requirements, and the quality team is expected to absorb all of it.
Document reviews stall waiting for approvals. Training assignments require constant follow-up. Approval…
(IndySoft: Charleston, SC) -- IndySoft, a global leader in calibration and asset management software, has launched IndySoft Scales, a mobile calibration app that’s touch-optimized, voice-enabled, and offline-first.
The platform was designed for technicians who require more ease of use than a…
The era of corporate AI theater is ending. A recent Wharton Human-AI Research and GBK Collective study finds that 82% of enterprise leaders use generative AI at least weekly, and 46% use it daily. That is no longer experimentation.
Yet McKinsey’s 2025 state of AI survey shows a stubborn gap…
(Covalent: Sunnyvale, CA) -- Covalent, a leader in advanced materials characterization and analytical services, announces the launch of Covalent Connect, a new platform designed to give customers seamless access to the world’s most advanced metrology techniques, laboratories, and technical…
The next Coordinate Metrology Society Conference (CMSC) takes place July 20–24, 2026, at the Fairmont Dallas in Dallas. If you want to know why it matters and who might be there, read on.
There’s a moment, familiar to anyone who works in metrology, when someone outside the field asks what you do…
(TRIMEDX: Indianapolis) -- TRIMEDX has released its 2026 industry report on clinical asset management, “From possibility to performance: How health systems can operationalize AI, strengthen resilience, and lead through change,” featuring insights from health system leaders on practical steps to…
Hexagon is showcasing innovation in metrology with the launch of APOLLO, a platform designed to predict failures in CMMs and machine tools before quality and production schedules are affected. This technology highlights the shift from reactive to predictive metrology, saving teams from significant…
Hexagon is showcasing innovation in metrology with the launch of APOLLO, a platform designed to predict failures in CMMs and machine tools before quality and production schedules are affected. This technology highlights the shift from reactive to predictive metrology, saving teams from significant…
(Hexagon: Stockholm) -- Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Business Area has unveiled new laser-guided solutions that make it possible—in some cases for the first time—to automate inaccessible and large-scale quality inspections in labor-intensive operations such as aircraft assembly,…
The time had come to open the envelope. But Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), wasn’t sure he wanted to know the secret number that was inside.
For the past 10 years, Schlamminger had spent most of his working hours trying to measure a…
(McCarthy Building Companies: St. Louis, MO) -- Colorado State University has reached a major milestone in the construction of the Advanced Technology Lasers for Applications and Science (ATLAS) Facility, celebrating the placement of the final structural steel beam—called “topping out”—on the CSU…