Little Lessons From the Big Boys
Once a product leaves the assembly line, even the tiniest quality problem can quickly escalate into a big headache for manufacturing engineers. The key is to address quality issues on the plant floor and to build quality into every product. Unfortunately, that’s often easier said than done, even at world-class manufacturers.
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Brain Teasers: Product or Process?
Anyone who has faced a production problem with a need to solve it by using production data can relate to the notion of a brain teaser. The brain teasers presented here are based on real-world situations encountered by workers in manufacturing environments.
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| NAM: Export-Led Growth Continues
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The March 11th report from the Commerce Department that the January manufactured goods trade deficit dropped by $7 billion from the previous year was hailed as validation that “export-led growth and free trade are continuing to hold the economy above water,” by Frank Vargo, the National Association of Manufacturers’ (NAM) vice president for international economic affairs.
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| Modus Metrology Opens New Facility
KNOXVILLE, TN—Modus Metrology Services, a part of Omega Energy Services, has moved to its new facility in Knoxville, TN, and will be operational and accepting work by June 1.
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Thermal Imager
The HSI3003 offers narrow angle 9.1- by 6.8-degree field-of-view optics, which enables detection and temperature measurement of small objects over long distances.
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Imaging Tool
The MultiBeam is a high-throughput SEM/FIB that combines focused ion beam micro milling with high-resolution imaging.
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Label Inspection
The AVIA clinical trial label inspection system is both language and print orientation independent, corrects for character drift and print warping, can perform optical character recognition (OCR), optical character verification (OCV) or image comparison on variable content information, and supports the setting of different inspection sensitivity regions on labels.
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