Articles Tagged with ''manufacturing''

AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology has elected its 2026-2027 board of directors to guide the organization and industry through a period of accelerating demand for advanced manufacturing capabilities.

You see it a lot with e-commerce. Online shopping is said to offer an advantage. An array of “reviews” posted by other shoppers of the product you are considering. Amazon and others have converted these comments on the worthiness of a product into tools that help browsers decide if they want to become purchasers.

Keith Bevan is the education chair of the Coordinate Metrology Society.

No two eggs are identical, yet all are edible. This principle applies equally to industrial manufacturing: the diversity of produced parts and potential defects is virtually limitless. The added challenge for quality assurance and identification tasks?

Ron Hicks is the chair of the board of directors for the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS).

Traditionally, visual or physical standards were the backbone of quality assurance. But as markets globalize and product iterations accelerate, those physical samples no longer meet the demand for consistency and speed.

Across manufacturing, aerospace, medical devices, and software-driven production environments, one challenge consistently rises to the top of executive discussions: the widening skills gap in quality engineering. 

Keri Ginn is an NDT ASNT Level Three as well as a senior quality manager at AAR Government Services. She's an expert in NDT quality management, supplier audits, and business analytics and she's recently written an article for Quality about recruiting the next generation of NDT professionals.

Lighting is arguably one of the most critical factors in the optical inspection tasks using modern 4K digital microscopes. 

Quality teams now rely on a dense stack of tools: automated test frameworks, AI assisted test generation, self healing locators, visual testing, static analysis, and observability platforms.