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Operations

Rundown on Manufacturing Robotics, Part 3

Craig Tomita

Customer Care

How to Get Really Great Customer Service

Innovating Service With Chip Bell

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Risk Management

Are You Anchoring Yourself to Poor Quality Data?

Gleb Tsipursky

Have you changed your views about Covid-19 months into this pandemic? Or are you anchoring to the same views you held last spring? For example, many people still believe the false claim spread by...

Articles & News

News

Manufacturing Expert Lisa Anderson Says Sustainability Integral With Smart Manufacturing

Smart manufacturing includes recyclability and energy and waste reduction, leading to sustainability and cost savings

Vision Engineering Expands LVC Video Measurement System With New Models, Higher Specifications

Ideal for measuring large components or multiple small components, quickly, easily, and accurately

Marposs Announces Minimicromar3 Gauge for Small Ground Components

Measure workpieces from 25 mm to 42.5 mm with a measuring range of ±100 µm and a repeatability of ≤0.1 µm

Marposs’ Aeroel Wireline Enables 100% Inspection of In-Process Drawn Wire

Contactless gauging system for measuring steel wire for tires, copper wire for electrical cables, CO2 welding wire, and more

Management 2.0: Discovery of Integrated Enterprise Excellence

Too often process enhancements occur in silos where there is little positive impact on the big picture

MIT Researchers and Collaborators Work to Prepare Manufacturers for Future Crises

NSF-funded project is developing a model to help manufacturers pivot and produce personal protective equipment

Creaform Announces R-Series Suite of Automated Dimensional Quality Control Solutions

Resolve CMM productivity issues with MetraSCAN-R BLACK|Elite, CUBE-R 3D, and digital twin environment software

Digital Metrology Launches ‘Notepad Series’ Videos for Teaching Surface Texture Analysis

Videos address common topics related to surface specification, measurement, and interpretation, in five minutes or less

Exact Metrology Offers RS6 Laser Scanner

Scan 99% of parts without touching the scanner exposure

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Features

How to Improve Your Hiring and Retention With a Systems-Thinking Approach

Tim Waldo

If you are like many small and medium-sized manufacturers, finding good help has been a pain point...

Organizational Data: The Silver Lining in the Covid-19 Cloud

Phanish Puranam

Julien Clément

Covid-19 has dealt most businesses a heavy blow, but the pandemic has at least one under-...

Disruptive Innovation: Where, Not What

Jeffrey Phillips

First, a slight diatribe. Why is it that company leaders think their people can do successful...

Design for Recycling

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Knowable Magazine

If you were to contact a group of recycling professionals, as one recent survey did, and...

The Butterfly Defect

Ryan E. Day

If you are a quality engineer or maybe even the quality manager of a manufacturing company,...

Where Manufacturing Is Growing (and Where It Is Not)

Ken Voytek

During the past few years, I have written more than a few blogs and papers looking at ...

Why We Shouldn’t Fear the Future of Work

Peter Dizikes

The American workforce is at a crossroads. Digitization and automation have replaced millions of...

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