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‘You see, but you do not observe,” Sherlock Holmes told Dr. Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s (1891) A Scandal in Bohemia. Taiichi Ohno, who developed Henry Ford’s lean production system into the Toyota Production System, told managers to stand in a circle on the shop floor and observe everything…
Calling all teachers, parents, and students. It’s easy to learn the metric system—or, as it’s more formally called, the International System of Units (SI). Explore these top 10 tips for teaching the SI. Let’s begin the countdown with....
10. Make it fun!
Integrating metric measurements into play…
(Qualio: San Francisco) -- Qualio, a trusted cloud quality management system software for the entire life sciences ecosystem, announced its Validation Pack to help quality professionals in the life sciences sector take a faster, less resource-intensive approach to the latest Good Automated…
(Teledyne DALSA: Waterloo, ON, Canada) -- Teledyne DALSA presents its new Falcon 4-CLHS M6200 and M8200 cameras, based on Teledyne e2v’s Emerald 37M and 67M monochrome sensors.
The new Falcon4-CLHS models deliver higher resolution, added functionality, and ease of use with a CLHS interface that…
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink claimed in a recent interview with Fox that “we have to get our employees back in the office.” According to him, doing so would result in “rising productivity that will offset some of the inflationary pressures.”
Fink didn’t provide any data in the form of statistics,…
Operating a desktop FFF 3D printer can be a ton of fun, except when you make mistakes. Mistakes can cause print failures, and also embarrassment when they are so obvious you really should not have made them.
Let’s take a look at my list of the eight dumbest FFF 3D printing mistakes you can make.…
Emergency medical workers, already at increased risk for burnout compared to other professions, continue to be challenged by the fallout of Covid-19.
Stretched to the breaking point by increased workloads, highly contagious and acutely ill patients, and limited resources, workers’ risk factors for…
Emergency medical workers, already at increased risk for burnout compared to other professions, continue to be challenged by the fallout of Covid-19.
Stretched to the breaking point by increased workloads, highly contagious and acutely ill patients, and limited resources, workers’ risk factors for…
Emergency medical workers, already at increased risk for burnout compared to other professions, continue to be challenged by the fallout of Covid-19.
Stretched to the breaking point by increased workloads, highly contagious and acutely ill patients, and limited resources, workers’ risk factors for…
Emergency medical workers, already at increased risk for burnout compared to other professions, continue to be challenged by the fallout of Covid-19.
Stretched to the breaking point by increased workloads, highly contagious and acutely ill patients, and limited resources, workers’ risk factors for…
(OGP: Rochester, MY) -- Optical Gaging Products (OGP), a leading manufacturer of optical and precision multisensory metrology systems for industrial quality control, has announced the addition of SmartScope E7—the first in the new SmartScope E-Series family of 3D multisensor measurement systems.…
(ORNL: Oak Ridge, TN) -- Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using ultrasounds—usually associated with medical imaging—to check the health of an operating battery. The technique uses sensors as small as a thumbnail, which could be attached to a lithium-ion battery inside a car.…
(Sandvic Coromant: Mebane, NC) -- Global metal-cutting leader Sandvik Coromant is expanding its milling offering with its new CoroMill MF80 for automotive milling applications in ISO K and ISO P materials in close to 90-degree operations with fixture constraints.
Based on a technology platform…
This is the fourth installment of a five-part series.
As detailed in our third installment, ASQE is a new legal entity connected to the ASQ we all know and love. It’s a trade organization to which organizations, rather than individuals, can belong. Current membership is about 180 organizations,…
The inability to gather good data has challenged many food manufacturers for decades. But not anymore. As sensor technology has improved, and technology platforms have become more accessible and affordable to small and medium-sized manufacturers, the food industry is poised for transformation. Food…
(Siemens: Plano, TX) -- Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced its latest release of Solid Edge software for product design, engineering, and manufacturing. This brings a new streamlined user experience, greater interoperability with the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, and greater…
(Heidenhain: Traunreut, Germany) -- Heidenhain Corp. has introduced its TD 110 tool breakage detector, specially designed for quickly sensing tool breakage during use within a machine tool. Providing contact-free inspection of drill bits and end mills, it can determine whether a tool is broken off…
The cumulative sum (or Cusum) technique is occasionally offered as an alternative to process behavior charts, even though they have completely different objectives. Process behavior charts characterize whether a process has been operated predictably. Cusums assume that the process is already being…
In September 2022, Boeing agreed to pay $200 million for charges that it misled investors about two crashes of its 737 Max aircraft that killed 346 people. The penalty imposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is small change compared to the $2.5 billion shelled out by the plane maker…
(Marposs: Auburn Hills, MI) -- Marposs, a global leader in measurement, inspection, and test technologies, has announced the availability of its Ultra Probing System with ultra-wideband transmission technology. This high-accuracy touch probe automatically detects the position of the machine axes to…
(Sakor Technologies: Owosso, MI) -- Sakor Technologies, a recognized leader in the area of high-performance dynamometer systems, displayed many of its innovative technologies at the Automotive Testing Expo North America, held Oct. 25–27, 2022, at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan…
Customer experience, or “CX,” is all the rage in marketing circles nationally. Customer experience refers to how a customer experiences your company at every point of their buying journey—from marketing to sales to customer service, and everywhere in between. It can be tangible actions, such as…
Thirty miles east of Reno, Nevada, past dusty hills patched with muted blue sage and the occasional injury-lawyer billboard, a large concrete structure rises prominently in the desert landscape. When fully constructed, it will be a pilot for a business that entrepreneurs envision as a major facet…
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- In recent years, scientists have made great strides in their ability to develop artificial intelligence algorithms that can analyze patient data and come up with new ways to diagnose disease or predict which treatments work best for different patients.
The success of those…
(X-Rite: Grand Rapids, MI) -- X-Rite Inc. and Pantone LLC, global leaders in color science and technology, announced they won the 2022 Pinnacle InterTech Award for the Mantis Video Targeting Technology for the eXact 2 noncontact handheld spectrophotometer.
This patented technology uses imaging…
