Any conversation about automation and quality has to start with an acknowledgment that robots inherently improve quality. Robots produce more consistent work than humans.
Access and availability of Quality 4.0 based tools, techniques, and technology has increased over the past two decades. Organizations have benefitted from it in multiple ways across industries.
Additive manufacturing has matured from a prototyping tool to a production technology, but scaling into cost-effective, high-volume manufacturing poses challenges: from equipment, material, labor costs and process consistency, to regulatory and quality assurance.
KUKA Robotics and its System Partner Autotool will be hosting a collaborative open house and educational seminar from February 25 – 26, 2026, at Autotool’s facility located in Plain City, OH.
Artificial intelligence has had an enormous effect on all aspects of the world economy—and after the initial excitement, the focus has shifted to the technology’s impressive capacity for real-world impact.
I always prefer to take the initiative to present the information—be it in a customer meeting, an audit, or other situation—rather than ask: “What do you want to know?”
In the Quality function of our organizations, we deal with a variety of activities: problem solving, decision making, project management, systems development, and much more. But few of them have the impact of communication.