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Courtesy of Morgan Motor Company Ltd.

Engineering Classic Design

Morgan Cars builds on its heritage of classic design with technology and innovation.
James Barnes
June 1, 2017

Morgan has been producing high quality handcrafted motor vehicles since 1909 and at the current Malvern Hills facility in Worcestershire, UK, since 1913. Today they produce their modern take on a British classic with a variety of traditional and modern vehicles, which embody Morgan’s heritage but embraces modern technologies. 


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Features

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Empowering GD&T

Empowering GD&T

Based on the ASME Y14.5 2009 Standard. Without GD&T, manufacturing is a guessing game.
Bill Tandler
June 1, 2017

GD&T is the only tool we have with which to manage machine part geometry perfectly. In particular, it’s the only tool we have with which to impose truly functional limits of imperfection on machine part features and actually guarantee assembly and operation prior to drawing release.


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Close, But Not Quite Home

Close, But Not Quite Home

Rising wages in China and a weak peso again make Mexico an increasingly attractive destination for manufacturing.
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Edward McMenamin
June 1, 2017

The Trump Administration’s contentious relationship with Mexico, possible changes to trade agreements and its public focus on American manufacturing has led some to reconsider moving jobs south-of-the-border. But what’s often lost in the rhetoric and public relations arm wrestling is the growing trend of nearshoring.


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Reverse Engineering: A Basic How-To

Reverse Engineering: A Basic How-To

The advancements in technology over the last 20 years have been amazing.
Greg Groth
June 1, 2017

How will this image be used? Do I anticipate any changes? What are your tolerance requirements? All these questions are paramount in determining the successful path of the data output and each are mutually exclusive of one another.


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Height gages are a common sight in the quality department. Source: Fowler

Get to Know the Height Gage

The accuracy gets a boost when height gages with repeatable measuring force are introduced.
Dave Wood
June 1, 2017

Height gages have achieved a nearly universal presence in the quality control world. It is rare to see a QC department without at least one or two of these instruments. This commonality makes it easy to overlook just how accurate and flexible these devices are. They measure much more than the term “height gage” would imply.


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Other Dimensions

The Pitch Mike Problem

It all starts with their name.
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Hill Cox
June 1, 2017

Anyone in the fastener or screw machine business producing screw threads is familiar with ‘pitch’ micrometers. These relatively simple devices are often used to set up production equipment and monitor their output, but there are many misconceptions about them which can call their usefulness into question. 


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From the Editor, Darryl Seland

Commonplace

But not to be taken for granted.
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Darryl Seland
June 1, 2017

“On a long enough timeline, everyone’s survival rate drops to zero.” It’s a quote from the popular 1999 film, “Fight Club,” and the same can be said for many of the things and ideas we create.


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Speaking of Quality

Quality’s Cancer

I believe all quality tools should be placed in the toolbox.
Bill Newcomb
June 1, 2017

In May 2010, my doctor informed me I had pancreatic cancer. He explained that pancreatic cancer is the silent cancer and only 6% of patients live after it is found.


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Face of Quality

Empowering Teams

Teams have changed how business is conducted in the workplace.
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Jim L. Smith
June 1, 2017

Certainly there are many types of teams, but in recent times it’s been similar to the alphabet soup of quality tools and techniques. Top executive teams, project teams, six sigma teams, cross-functional teams, improvement teams, self-directed teams, and ad hoc teams are some of the more recognizable forms.


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Products

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uVision 365 Series UV-A Lamps

uVision 365 Series UV-A Lamps

June 1, 2017

Spectronics Corporation released the uVision™ 365 series of UV-A LED lamps for non-destructive testing, crime scene forensics, and more. The hallmark of the uVision series is its IP65 rating –the unit can be fully covered in dust and suffer no intrusion, and it is protected against jets of water from all directions. 


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EyeVision 3D ProfileScanner

EyeVision 3D ProfileScanner

June 1, 2017

The EyeVision 3D image processing software has a special command set to scan profiles, to do meas-urements based on those profiles and check if there is an error on those profiles.


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Mahr Federal Millimar C1200 Digital IC Amplifier

Mahr Federal Millimar C1200 Digital IC Amplifier

June 1, 2017

Several new features have been added to Mahr Federal’s popular Millimar C1200 Digital IC amplifier, increasing its application range and user security. The new functions include dynamic measurement capability, enhanced display tolerance viewing, and password protection for the setup menu.


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New Products

Creaform MaxSHOT Next Optical Coordinate Measuring System

June 1, 2017

Creaform announced the launch of a new generation of optical coordinate measuring systems, the MaxSHOT Next. Quality control and product development specialists from the aerospace, automotive, transportation and heavy industries will benefit from the system’s live go/no-go guidance feature for even more accurate and reliable measurements for their large-scale metrology projects.


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Mitutoyo iChecker

Mitutoyo Inspection Instrument for Indicators

June 1, 2017

Mitutoyo America Corporation announces the release of the i-Checker, an inspection instrument specially designed to calibrate a variety of indicators, including bore gages, Digimatic indicators, dial indicators, dial test indicators and linear gages.


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