Early design optimization is vital in manufacturing to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness. Delaying it until production can drastically increase costs and risks. Digital optimization before production enables cost-efficient design changes, while late-stage modifications can be exponentially more expensive, emphasizing the need for early optimization.
The 13th Annual Members Meeting and Exchange (MMX), hosted by America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, was held August 5–6 in Canfield, OH.
The latest Rules 6th Edition changes represent the most significant enhancement to the IATF certification scheme in nearly a decade. As the industry prepares for the next revision of the IATF 16949 standard, the upgrades appear to be laying a foundation for future requirements in digitalization and sustainability.
PI (Physik Instrumente) offers custom precision gantry motion systems, engineered for high-accuracy industrial applications like inspection, metrology, laser processing, micro-assembly, and high-end 3D printing.
Emerson has announced the release of Movicon.NExT™ Version 4.4, a modern human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) platform.
TASI Measurement, a global provider of industrial and commercial monitoring technologies, announced the acquisition of DCiii, LLC (DC3 Control) (dc3control.com), a provider of chemical injection automation solutions for the energy and industrial sectors.
Coordinate measuring machine (CMM) manufacturer LK Metrology, whose manufacturing facility is in Derbyshire, UK, has announced the introduction of the SURFACER SRP.
New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology, totaled $429.2 million in June 2025.