Additive manufacturing continues to grow. The number of applications are on the rise, along with additive research. At this time last year, Paul Brackman was the only person working in the Zeiss Knoxville lab—today, he’s one of four full-time Zeiss staff at the lab, along with a team working in additive software applications at the Minneapolis headquarters, and a dedicated hardware team in Germany working on additive.

In these strange times, every industry around the globe has been affected by the coronavirus. And manufacturing is no different.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) continues to gain in popularity as manufacturing teams seek to quantify plant and machine-level performance to find ways each area can be improved and keep production lines running at peak efficiency.

When your production is set to in-crease tenfold, it’s time to expand.

Making it to the top requires dedication, persistence, and continuous improvement.

Today’s manufactured components are more complex than ever, with more parts diversity, more model year changes and tighter tolerances than ever before.

The quality lab is a critical component to manufacturing companies, especially when preparing parts for production, routine inspection and also product development.

Developed nations, though equipped with industrial and educational infrastructures, face a current and increasing shortage of qualified, skilled and motivated workers.

Sensors that report a factory’s performance by measuring machine functioning, downtime, and production goals are in high demand.

How can a QMS help your organization to achieve a strategic culture of quality? What can you learn from the unique challenges other organizations face in different industries?