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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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Other Dimensions
Other Dimensions | Hill Cox

Plain Plug Gage Calibration

Nothing could be simpler than calibrating the lowly plain plug gage - at least at first glance
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Hill Cox
May 7, 2021

Following the path of a cheap and cheerful ‘how to do it’ format of the last two columns, I continue with something easy – or is it?


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GD&T’s New Rule and What it means for Measurement

Here we will explore the implications of rule "S" and the limits/requirements of today's metrology as it is applied to these GD&T requirements.
Mark Malburg Mike Zecchino AJ Mennuti
May 6, 2021

In Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) there has been a long-standing conflict between the worlds of specification and measurement. The goal of specification is to ensure that components will function; the goal of measurement is to ensure that manufactured components meet those functional requirements. 


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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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