Plans by Hyundai and Samsung to invest billions of dollars in high-tech production facilities in the United States is a hopeful sign that a different kind of manufacturing is on the rise in the country after decades of industrial decline, Wharton professor Lynn Wu said.

(IDS: Woburn, MA) -- IDS NXT is a comprehensive AI vision system with a wide range of workflows and tools for realizing your own AI vision applications. The intelligent IDS NXT cameras can process tasks “on device” and deliver image processing results as well.

(OSI Optoelectronics: Hawthorne, CA)—OSI Optoelectronics announces its dual indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) sandwich detector series for physical and chemical sciences, astronomy, aerospace, and measurement analysis applications.

This is a challenging time for many companies. On the one hand, supply chain disruption, labor shortage, and raw material and energy price hikes are driving up business costs. On the other, demand is slack due to consumers’ reduced purchasing power and an uncertain global economic outlook. Together, these conditions squeeze companies’ profits and cast a shadow on their growth prospects. Executives everywhere in the world find it more urgent than ever to sharpen their organizations’ innovation strategy to create new markets for growth.

In late 1999, Scott Paton, then-editor-in chief and publisher of Quality Digest, asked his readers to provide him with their definitions of quality. The feedback was impressive: more than 80 responses were received, ranging “from the sublime to the ridiculous.”

(Michigan Metrology: Livonia, MI) -- The Surface Roughness, Texture, and Tribology short course, a staple of surface roughness training for engineers and quality professionals for almost 20 years, is now available in its entirety on the udemy.com education site.