As manufacturers accelerate their Industry 4.0 journeys, investment has largely focused on automation, machine connectivity, artificial intelligence and data analytics. Yet one critical element often remains disconnected from the digital manufacturing ecosystem, that of quality measurement.
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Hexagon and Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) have partnered to modernise how it validates and verifies racing motorcycle designs. The agreement is helping FIM improve and standardise technical homologation and compliance processes using measurement equipment from Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence Business Area for the FIM Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK).
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Tomocube, a 3D non-destructive inspection and metrology company, has announced the launch of HT-T1 Desktop (HT-T1D), a desktop holotomography system for high-resolution 3D defect analysis of glass substrates used in next-generation semiconductor packaging.
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A landmark investment to build next-generation industrial and manufacturing capabilities for future aerospace production has officially opened at the UK’s University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC).
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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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With U.S. manufacturing technology orders climbing and productivity showing its strongest gains in years, IMTS 2026 – The International Manufacturing Technology Show will give manufacturers a front-row view of the technologies accelerating the industry’s next wave of growth. Across the show floor, visitors will experience industrial AI, automation, additive manufacturing (AM), digital twins, software, machining, metrology, and connected production systems that are helping companies increase output, improve efficiency, and move faster from design to delivery.
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KIT has launched a free Calibration Compliance Scorecard designed to help manufacturers assess audit readiness, reduce non-conformance risk and identify weaknesses in their calibration control before they become audit findings, production disruptions or product safety concerns.
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Apera AI has introduced VuePod, a pre-engineered vision-guided robotic bin-picking cell designed to simplify the deployment of automated machine tending.
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Businesses are faced with an increasing shortage of skilled workers. In some industries, like the logistics sector, specialists are so scarce that many companies have to rely on career changers and unskilled workers. What’s more, the sector is characterized by high staff turnover and the need to hire additional temporary staff to be able to handle seasonal peaks. Training new inexperienced staff members in complex work processes can be time-consuming.
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PI, a leader in precision motion control and air bearing positioning systems, has announced the A-123 PIglide Air Bearing Linear Slide, a direct-drive, noncontact linear translation stage engineered for nanometer-class scanning, metrology, inspection, and positioning applications requiring the highest levels of geometric accuracy and velocity stability.
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