Thread Quality Control Series: Go and No-Go Checks
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Adapted from "Squashed Bolts" Credit: Tudor Barker
‘I just want to avoid spinning gauges all day.”
Data Science Paves the Way for Road Safety
As municipalities clamor for a slice of President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending bill, one Johns Hopkins scientist is re-examining one of the basic elements of road-building: Determining the width of road lanes.
How Do You Know You’re Getting What You Pay For at the Grocery Store?
Whether it’s bananas, olives, potato salad, or cereal, many products are priced according to their weight. That weight is likely determined on a scale tested and certified by a specially trained state or local inspector.
More Sensitive X-ray Imaging for Medicine and Industry
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Researchers at MIT have shown how one could improve the efficiency of scintillators by at least tenfold by changing the material’s surface. This image shows a TEM grid on Scotch tape, with the right side showing the scene after it is corrected. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News.
Scintillators are materials that emit light when bombarded with high-energy particles or X-rays. In medical or dental X-ray systems, they convert incoming X-ray radiation into visible light that can then be captured using film or photosensors.
NIST Imaging System Spotlights Tiny Mechanical Hearts at Core of Every Cellphone
Inside every cellphone lies a tiny mechanical heart, beating several billion times a second. These micromechanical resonators play an essential role in cellphone communication.
Eight Marketing Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
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Do you ever feel like you’re spending money like crazy on marketing and getting little or nothing in return? If so, you might be tempted to pull the plug on marketing altogether. That would be a big mistake.
How Edge IoT Platforms Increase Efficiency, Availability, and Productivity
In four years, more than 30 percent of businesses and organizations will include edge computing in their cloud deployments to address bandwidth bottlenecks, reduce latency, and process data for d
Improving Quality, Decreasing Costs
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Digital transformation initiatives that aim at getting manufacturers to Industry 4.0 have been around a while and will assuredly continue to be with us for quite a while longer.
Exploring the Business Value of Digital Twins
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"Twins" Credit: Aaure
Today thousands of technologies and solutions help businesses improve efficiency, create better products, evolve faster, and so on.
A Look Into 3MF and Its Volumetric Design Extension
The 3MF Consortium recently announced its latest volumetric design extension for encoding geometrical shapes and spatially diverse properties through a volume-based description.