Google Announces $10M to the Manufacturing Institute to Develop AI Skills for the Manufacturing Workforce
Google announced $10 million to the Manufacturing Institute—the 501(c)3 workforce development and education affiliate of the National Association…
Preparing for Fellow: A Career Goal
Becoming a Fellow in a professional society such as the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Institute of Electrical…
Chapter 1 Deep-Dive: What Amplification Actually Looks Like
Companion document to “Software Development in the Agentic Era” By Mike, in collaboration with Claude (Anthropic) The main…
Peak Technologies Peak Automation Intelligence
Peak Technologies, a global provider of smart technologies, automated supply chain and mobile workforce solutions, announced the launch…
Manufacturing Reality: Stuck in the Middle
Mid-sized manufacturers are increasingly being squeezed on one side by large companies with the budgets and expertise needed…
Momentum of Late-2025 Machinery Demand Carries Into the First 2 Months of 2026
New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT – The…
Lighting Design for Machine Vision, Part 4
This is the fourth article of a five-article series on lighting design for machine vision.
Expanding Lean Waste: The Case for Material Underutilization
Before I get into the focus of this column, I’d venture to guess that many quality professionals reading…
A Practical Guide for Women Building Careers in Manufacturing
Manufacturing has changed meaningfully over the past two decades. Once rare, women in technical, operational, and leadership roles…
TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale
TorchTPU is a new engineering stack designed to provide a native, high-performance experience for running PyTorch workloads on…