AI in Quality Control and Assurance
Keeping quality high in today’s fast-moving production world is a big challenge. Traditional quality checks have worked well, but they can be slow, require a lot of work, and are prone to mistakes.
What Leaders Can Learn About Innovation From a Pistol Maker
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Engraving of Samuel Colt, 1885.
Innovation is vital to the success of all businesses. Innovate or perish is the new mantra. Leaders must perpetually reinvent their processes, products, and services, because they typically have multiple competitors offering similar offerings.
Empowering Tomorrow’s Engineers With Metrology Technologies
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The Clarkson University Clean Snowmobile Team visited Creaform to refine and enhance its snowmobile designs with 3D scanners and scan-to-CAD software.
Clarkson University is a private national research university in upstate New York and a leader in technological education.
Taking a Deep Look Into the Eye
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Fluorescein image with the OCULUS ImageCam 3 visualizes the accuracy of a contact lens fit on the cornea.
The slit-lamp examination is one of the most important diagnostic techniques in ophthalmology. It enables a detailed examination of the anterior, middle, and posterior segments of the eye.
Make Innovation in Your Organization ‘Ordinary and Accessible’
José Pires, founder and CEO of Global Excellence & Innovation, has helped large and small organizations across mu
Single-Qubit Sensing
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A single-spin qubit probes nanoscale spin fluctuations to reveal magnetic interactions in quantum materials.
Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials.
Breakthrough Imaging Method Captures the Dynamics of Spin Waves
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Members of the Brookhaven research team next to the Lorentz transmission electron microscope: Yimei Zhu, Alex Pofelski, Myung-Geun Han, and Fernando Camino (back row); Spencer Reisbeck (middle); and Chuhang Liu (front).
One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies will likely be based on “spintronics,” which leverages both an electron’s charge and its spin—the tiny “up” or “down” magnetic moment carried
Robotic Helper Making Mistakes? Just Nudge It
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Graduate student Felix Yanwei Wang nudges a robotic arm that’s manipulating a bowl in a toy kitchen set up in the group’s lab. Using the framework Wang and his collaborators developed, slightly nudging a robot is one way to correct its behavior.
Imagine that a robot is helping you clean the dishes. You ask it to grab a soapy bowl out of the sink, but its gripper slightly misses the mark.
Measuring Sheet Metal Parts
Each type of part presents its own set of inspection challenges. This is especially true for sheet metal parts that are made of various entities, each with different positioning and dimensioning tolerances, and variable thickness gauges and sizes.
