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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…
In the world of mining, structural collapse is a worst-case scenario. Whenever ground gives way, it puts miners at risk—and it often leads to site closure.
Once all miners are accounted for, it’s time for the recovery operation to begin. Limited visibility often means it’s difficult to assess…
(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, announced an API-enabled integration between Plex Quality Management System (QMS) and FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI. The integration expands AI-driven…
(KPM Analytics: Westborough, MA) -- Food processors are striving for zero defects by measuring as many quality parameters as possible in various stages of production. To assist processors in meeting this goal, KPM Analytics offers its new MCT700 Series NIR (near infrared) sensors, which provide…
I tried to achieve some balance in my life by taking a few days off to go fishing on Lake Erie with my son. We chartered a boat for three days—just the two of us. If you’ve never been walleye fishing on a trolling boat (we hadn’t), it’s a bit different from what you would expect, and it was a lot…
In my last post, I reflected on a couple of different whys to interrogate a process—either to solve a problem or to create a process improvement. Here are a few more contextual uses of the question “Why?” that I’ve found very helpful as a manager and improvement leader.
Purpose expansion
When…
(Fluke: Everett, WA) -- Calibration laboratories are under growing pressure to do more with fewer resources while managing disconnected systems, manual workflows, and increasing compliance demands. To address these challenges, Fluke has announced the latest release of CalStudio, headlined by…
Ask a premarket team where corrective and preventive action (CAPA) sits on the priority list, and it usually lands below design controls, risk management, and the submission itself. The reasoning is easy to follow. Nothing has shipped, so there are no complaints to investigate, no returned product…
(APM Steam: Woburn, MA) -- American Plant Maintenance (APM Steam), a leading provider of steam system maintenance services, highlights steam trap surveys that create a complete inventory of steam traps, identify failing units, and uncover trap station issues that reduce thermal energy delivery and…
(QT9 Software: Aurora, IL) -- QT9 Software, a global technology leader in quality management software and ERP solutions, will exhibit its integrated QMS and ERP platforms at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), September 14–19, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago. At Booth 134047…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Nanoscience, which studies small objects, has a big problem. According to a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the field confronts a pervasive error of data analysis that can give misleading insights into how these tiny…
A sound that’s slightly off before a bearing fails. A smell that shows up before a chemical reaction runs hot. A texture that feels wrong before any instrument confirms it. Frontline workers pick up on signals like these constantly and, most of the time, nothing in the plant is built to capture…
As the leader of a high-performing team, how you distribute and balance work for members of that team is a critical success factor. It needs to be done fairly. Note, I didn’t say equally. Work allocation needs to be done fairly because you want your team to operate on the basis of equality. You…
(LG Electronics: Seoul, South Korea) -- LG Electronics (LG) has opened a new plant in Paraná, Brazil, reinforcing its manufacturing footprint in Brazil and supporting long-term growth across Latin America, a key growth region for LG.
Representing an investment of approximately $310 million (BRL 1.…
(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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…