(Melbourne, Australia, July 23rd 2026) Additive Assurance, a provider of quality assurance solutions for metal powder bed fusion, has entered a domestic distributorship agreement with NTT DATA XAM Technologies Corp. (XAM) to launch its real-time quality assurance solution, AMiRIS, in the Japanese market. Through this agreement, Additive Assurance aims to resolve quality assurance and mass…

Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) and Sheffield Forgemasters welcomed invited lifting professionals to each of their South Yorkshire, UK facilities earlier this month (8 July) for a special event that showcased an innovative safer lifting operations project. The discovery day was held at RSS’s Rotherham depot, but a highlight was a site visit to…

AFRL-SUPPORTED RESEARCH VALIDATES PANX THERMOMECHANICAL SIMULATION FOR CREATING DIGITAL TWINS OF ENTIRE BUILD VOLUMES IN METAL AM PanOptimization has welcomed the publication of Air Force Research Laboratory-supported research that validates the use of PanX thermomechanical simulation for simulating entire build volumes in metal additive manufacturing (AM). The paper, entitled “Part scale prediction of residual stress…

Rope and Sling Specialists Ltd. (RSS) has combined with Gemmak Engineering Ltd. to provide a bespoke steel gantry system, which is installed in a basement-level plantroom at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot facility, one of the UK’s largest and most significant steel manufacturing sites. RSS and Gemmak, which serves as the manufacturing division within the company’s…

A leading household-name aerospace OEM has highlighted how AMiRIS®, the in-process quality assurance solution from Additive Assurance, is helping its teams move beyond “interesting monitoring” and toward decision-ready evidence that can scale across a complex manufacturing ecosystem. A spokesperson for the OEM says the strongest early value is AMiRIS’ machine-agnostic approach, which enables a consistent…

Pressure differentials inside cleanrooms are not very large, as Vaisala’s Senior Project Engineer Sean Murphy explains, most are set somewhere between 5-15 Pascal. However, maintaining that differential is a critical part of the overall cleanroom contamination control strategy. These small pressure differences help air move in the right direction; help separate cleaner areas from areas…

Appointed to increase presence in Aerospace, Defence, Energy, Industrial, Medical and Motorsport markets Weald Electronics Ltd., a major UK manufacturer of electrical connectors and accessories for defence and demanding industrial applications, have appointed Rayfast as their new UK distributor. Rayfast is a leading stocking distributor of quality interconnect solutions as well as high-performance harness components…

Molex, a global electronics leader and connectivity innovator, today announced a long-term supply agreement with Prysmian, the world’s largest cable solutions provider, to address the surging demand for fiber optic connectivity inside data centers. Fueled by rapid AI-driven data center expansions, Prysmian will supply optical cables to Molex for a period of up to 10…

Solid Sands, the leader in C and C++ compiler and library qualification solutions, and its partner BUGSENG, a specialist in automated software verification, today announced the successful completion of a library qualification project for MDA Space, a trusted mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry. This qualification supports MDA Space on the design…