New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT), totaled $493.1 million in September 2025. This was a 7.2% decline from August 2025 but an 11% increase from September 2024.
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Nikon SLM Solutions and Swedish advanced analytics and visualization technology company Interspectral have announced a strategic partnership to deliver an advanced, integrated quality assurance and process monitoring solution for industrial metal additive manufacturing (AM).
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Agile Robots has announced the launch of its first humanoid robot. Agile ONE is designed for use in industrial settings, where it will work safely and efficiently alongside humans and other robotic solutions.
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For her outstanding contributions to the Bavarian economy, Dr. Heike Wenzel, CEO and Managing Partner of WENZEL Group GmbH & Co. KG and President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) Aschaffenburg, has been awarded the Bavarian State Medal
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Metrology Brew newsletter features a summary of headline metrology and smart manufacturing news from the past 7 days.
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Creaform, has announced the opening of two new service centers that will offer local ISO 17025 calibration for its EVO, BLACK, and MAX Series of the HandySCAN 3D lineup. With these new centers located in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico and Exton, Pennsylvania, United States, Creaform customers in the US and Mexico can now access certified calibration locally, reducing shipping delays and downtime.
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Intellect, a provider of AI-powered Quality Management System (QMS) software, has announced the acquisition of Zaptic, a UK-based Connected Frontline Worker (CFW) platform that empowers manufacturing and operations teams through AI-enabled workflows.
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Using structured light projection and proprietary calibration, the systems achieve ±10 µm vertical accuracy, 60 µm spatial resolution, and repeatability of 5 µm at the calibration plane.
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In an era where electronics manufacturing is under relentless pressure to be faster, more efficient, and faultless, Delvitech is emerging as a notable force in the Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) sector. The Swiss deep-tech company has recently closed a $40 million Series B funding round, a development that highlights both its accelerating growth and the industry’s shift toward data-driven, continuously learning inspection systems.
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Aibuild’s newly announced strategic partnership with Reichenbacher Hamuel GmbH marks more than the convergence of additive and subtractive manufacturing. It signals a meaningful step toward metrology-centric hybrid production, where measurement data and digital feedback loops drive consistency, accuracy, and industrial scalability.
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