Other jobs Criterion does on screw machines include dental implant components, medical implant parts, helixes for bone-removal drills, and components for blood-analyzing units. Some of Tanya DiSalvo's ...

Fed rod stock by a machine operator, the machine worked on a single screw at a time, passing the stock through a succession of different cutting tools. The earliest machines produced minute screws to ...

Companies' collecting and crunching of large amounts of information, so-called Big Data, is becoming a means of measuring million of little things in factories to achieve quality and efficiency gains.