(Maple Grove, MN) -- Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology will change its legal name to Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions on July 1, 2022, to reflect the growth and development of the company. With the acquisition of several companies in recent years, and the continued development of advanced technologies, the new name expresses the vast expertise and inspection solutions now available to customers.
‘They’re here, but they’re not here. My staff isn’t committed, and it’s obvious to me and our customers. We’re in trouble.”
“To say that initiative is lacking is an understatement. My staff doesn’t think beyond the basics. If they hit a wall, they stop. The idea of looking for a window never crosses their minds. Frustrating!”
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.
(RPI: Bath, UK) -- RPI, a leading provider of rotary measurement and angular positioning devices, has expanded its metrology product range with the launch of OctoScan, which can improve productivity by up to 40 percent.
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.”
With ongoing global shortages of all kinds of goods, from cars to lumber to cooking oil, both consumers and companies are struggling.
For years, organizations have taken a defensive “castle-and-moat” approach to cybersecurity, seeking to secure the perimeters of their networks to block out any malicious actors.
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