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The Importance of Surface Topography in Product Quality and Performance
September 21, 2010

Ensure Effective Quality Audit Reports
When an audit concludes, the audit team presents its findings to the auditees at a clos-ing meeting. At the closing, or before the audit team departs the facility, it is typical for the auditee’s representative to receive findings in handwritten format.

Can Machine Vision be Your Answer?
Replacing human inspection with machine vision can go far in automating factory operation, but implementers need to carefully match machine vision options with application requirements.

Bonus eXtra! Machine Vision System Improves Jewelry Inspection
In this case study, a jewelery manufacturer uses an all-in-one vision appliance to measure earring backs.

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Brain Teasers: Can You Solve the Final Brain Teaser?
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Key to Quality: The Flavor of the Day Is LSS and the Theory of Constrains
I realize that LSS and the theory of constrains are good things, but the main root cause problem is overlooked.

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Perspectives in Vision: Rubber, Plastic and Ray Charles
One of my favorite entertainers of all time was the one and only Ray Charles. Although he was an inimitable vocalist, in 1945 it was his skill with the piano that started people talking.

Meet Our Latest Vision Expert
The most challenging projects often leave me very uncomfortable at the beginning, but then the fog lifts in a week or so and simple, effective solutions emerge.

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