Articles Tagged with ''quality''

Shipments of cutting tools, measured by the Cutting Tool Market Report, a collaboration between AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI), totaled $220.7 million in January 2026.

I felt it might be of interest to continue the discussion from my previous column on organizational culture. It is not easy for some organizations to convert to a culture that is truly focused on establishing a robust culture of quality.

We treat mistakes like something to be engineered out of existence. Every roadmap promises fewer defects. Every system promises more precision. 

My career started with the early days of the semiconductor industry, and a few years later techies started dreaming of large-scale semiconductor memory. 

In laboratories, manufacturing plants, hospitals, testing facilities, and certification bodies around the world, quality systems are quietly losing their soul. 

AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, the owner and producer of IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show, has joined forces with the Women in Manufacturing Association (WiM) to strengthen and advance the manufacturing technology community.

The ASQ Fellows community has long served as a source of insight, stewardship, and forward-looking leadership for the Society. 

Building on a proven existing joint development and successful commercial track record, IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH (IDS) and Prophesee SA announced an expanded collaboration to develop next-generation industrial cameras integrating Prophesee’s Metavision® event-based vision technology.

I have over the past couple of years presented the journey that ISO 10012 has followed to reach the time for release as the latest revision.

4 Point NDT invites you to witness the world of non-destructive testing (NDT) and see how we keep the world safe, from airplanes, bridges, pipeline, amusement parks, nuclear, energy, and more.