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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.

Emergency medical workers, already at increased risk for burnout compared to other professions, continue to be challenged by the fallout of Covid-19.

(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.

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The inability to gather good data has challenged many food manufacturers for decades. But not anymore.

(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.

(Siemens: Plano, TX) -- Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced its latest release of Solid Edge software for product design, engineering, and manufacturing.

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.