North American companies ordered 10,989 robots valued at $723.5 million in the third quarter of 2026, according to new data released by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). Orders increased 24.8% in units and 26.1% in value compared to the third quarter of 2025, making it the strongest quarter of the year so far.
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K3Metrology has recently secured a £2 million Innovate UK project award to accelerate the development of Metralis, its next-generation coordinate measurement platform designed to deliver fast, accurate and traceable 3D measurement for advanced manufacturing.
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Manufacturers do not need a dashboard full of unexplained anomalies. They need connected intelligence that helps them make better decisions before, during, and after the build. AdditiveOS is central to that because it allows every build to become part of a learning workflow, not just another isolated dataset.
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The concept of the software-defined factory is an important part of this evolution. As manufacturing systems become more software-driven, production processes can be configured, monitored and optimised through increasingly connected digital platforms. Measurement and inspection must be part of this architecture, ensuring that decisions made by automated systems and AI-enabled applications are grounded in reliable information about the physical product and the manufacturing process
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Hexagon’s Portable Metrology Division has introduced a major update to Inspire, its inspection software for portable probing and 3D scanning, that help shop-floor manufacturing and quality teams work more efficiently and build 3D metrology directly into their production processes.
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Connected sensing technologies are helping manufacturers improve process control, equipment performance and quality assurance by turning real-time production data into actionable information
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Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation are advancing their vision for software-defined factories (SDFs), in which integrated data, artificial intelligence (AI) and standardised software platforms will play an increasingly important role in how manufacturing operations are designed, managed and optimised.
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As more production data flows from the CMM straight into process control, the humble fixture is becoming one of the biggest sources of measurement risk, and one of the most overlooked.
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Plants rarely get calibration findings because a gauge was wrong. They get them because nobody can show, on the day, that the gauge was right, that it was the right gauge for the job, or what happened to the parts it measured once it turned out to be wrong.
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Surface inspection remains one of the last major bottlenecks in aviation maintenance. While many inspection processes have become increasingly digital, the evaluation of small defects often still depends on replica workflows, laboratory measurements, and subjective evalutaion.
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