With handshakes, hugs, high-fives, and hearty backslaps as people greeted each other after four years apart, the connectedness of the manufacturing community was the literal showstopper at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show.

Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) and EVIDENT Co., Ltd. ("Evident"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Olympus announced that Olympus concluded a definitive agreement with Bain Capital Private Equity, LP (“Bain Capital”), regarding the transfer of Evident.

With America Makes entering its 10th year, the Executive Committee will help lead the transition into the next phase of the America Makes program.

ETQ, part of Hexagon, announced that it has appointed John Taylor, its former Senior Vice President of Engineering & Operations, to Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective immediately.

Junia Holdings Inc. announced that Tunji Taiwo has been named as President and Chief Executive Officer.

In 2021, the private and federal push for domestic supply of essential goods propelled reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) job announcements to a record high. Projections from Reshoring Initiative® 1H 2022 data show reshoring and FDI continuing these gains.

FARO® Technologies, Inc., announced the acquisition of UK-based GeoSLAM, a leading provider of mobile scanning solutions with proprietary high-productivity simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) software to create 3D models for use in Digital Twin applications.

The American Society for Quality, ASQ, will be hosting “Quality—Then and Now, it’s joint inspection division and greater Houston section conference Sept. 29-30 at Sheraton Houston-Brookhollow Hotel in Houston, TX.

The Women in Manufacturing Education Foundation (WiMEF) announced 13 outstanding women leaders who make up the 2022 class of Women in Manufacturing Hall of Fame inductees.

Xiris Automation Inc. announced that Polytec GmbH of Waldbronn, Germany has been appointed an official distributor of Xiris Weld Inspection Systems for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.