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LUCID Vision Labs, Inc. announced the addition of the Helios®2 Chroma and Helios®2+ Chroma factory-calibrated RGB-D cameras to its time-of-flight camera family.

As metal additive manufacturing (AM) matures from prototyping tool to bona fide production technology, the conversation around “quality” has to grow up with it.

You’re already a superstar in quality control, but are you also a bit of a wordsmith? Can you unleash a wicked pun, or do you just like a good laugh? Join our caption contest and show your wit and creativity (try your best not to be vulgar, though)

QT9 Software announced plans to relocate its global headquarters from Aurora to a newly redeveloped campus in downtown Batavia, Illinois.

Every second counts on high-speed conveyor lines. A missed barcode or a tiny defect can disrupt production, increase costs, and reduce 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.