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CMMs Go Collaborative

Is Your Coordinate Measuring Machine Future-Ready?
June 8, 2021
Digital transformation is placing urgent demands on coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) to be interconnected and communicative. Without the ability to collaborate with other systems and workers on the shop floor, CMMs risk becoming an informational black hole that prevents the flow of data required for smarter manufacturing.
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Face of Quality

Redefine Audit Strategy

Organizations Have Been Forced to Redefine Their Quality Audit Strategies.
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Jim L. Smith
June 8, 2021
Organizations have been forced to redefine their quality audit strategies to ensure compliance and render support to their supply base. Over the years, I have been involved with championing three categories of audits: on-site, hybrid and remote audits. 


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How to Choose the Best Shaft Measurement Tool for your Specific Application

There are Three Primary Options Available Today for Shaft Measurement: Optical, Tactile, and a Combination System
Patrick Nugent
June 7, 2021
There are three primary options available today for shaft measurement: optical, tactile, and a combination system. The optical systems have become common over the past few decades because of their flexibility and speed. So how do you choose the best option for your specific application?
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Remote Visual Inspection an Important Part of the NDT Toolbox

Remote Visual Inspection has Provided Key Inspection Data While Maintaining Safety for its Operators.
Gregory James Weaver
June 7, 2021
Remote visual inspection (RVI) is a nondestructive testing (NDT) technique used for the visual inspection of an object where the person performing the inspection operates a piece of equipment from a distance. Most of the inspection applications used for quality purposes are carried out using three main types of equipment:  borescopes, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and crawler robots. Find out more about their uses and advantages.
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The Basics of Digital X-Ray Inspection

Conventional Radiography Will Continue to Have a Pace in NDT, but Digital Radiography is the Future
George Hopman
June 7, 2021
Digital radiography is the future. Read about the most common modalities, computed radiography (CR) and digital detector array (DDA) radiography, that are replacing traditional film-based inspections.
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Speaking of Quality | Charles W. (Wes) Shelton

Measurement System Analysis More Than a Line on a PPAP Submission

June 1, 2021
For those of us in the manufacturing world, measurements on products and processes are all important to ensure the products will meet customer requirements, perform correctly, safely, and for a reasonable lifespan. We place our faith in the measurements to accept or reject product—or to adjust the manufacturing process. But are the measurements correct—and how would we know?
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Utilizing a 3D inspection method provides vital information on the bead such as volume and location on part, it also saves productivity of the operators’ time.
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Quality and Process Control for the Dispensing Process

For Many Applications, Good Robot Programming is an Art.
Zhenhua Huang
May 18, 2021
Manufacturing industries have been striving for years for a robust quality control solution which can reliably sort out bad parts of the dispensing process without causing much production downtime. What the industry craves is a robust 3D solution that provides a 360° view of the bead regardless of the dispensing direction.
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Face of Quality | Jim L. Smith

Commit to Improvement

Real continuous improvement requires rigor and discipline.
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Jim L. Smith
May 7, 2021

When researching material for my thesis many years ago, I discovered there was no “silver bullet” for the organizational model for a continuous improvement effort. There is no single model that works for everyone; it varies from organization to organization.


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Scaling data collection systems to growing operations

Today’s automated data collection systems can help companies boost efficiency, even as their requirements change.
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Darryl Seland
May 6, 2021

Manufacturers must ask a lot of their quality data collection systems. Ideally, these systems should not only capture quality data while a product or service is manufactured, assembled and installed, but they should also aid in pre-production preparation. 


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