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 | Visual Management: Increase Your Company’s Profitability Through Insight
Date: December 7, 2011
Download a new white paper from Red Lion to find out how implementing a simple visual management system can help you meet Kaizen, lean manufacturing and additional efforts to become more competitive in a global economy. The white paper describes various visual management solutions, which include the collection of key performance indicators and the communication of these KPIs to the production floor personnel—who can affect the greatest improvement.
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 | Fundamentals of Calibration
Date: December 1, 2011
Calibration is an insurance policy that verifies the accuracy of test instruments. Measurement instruments are essential for any company that verifies and measures during the product design and manufacturing process. Since these instruments are used to verify the quality of products, they are ultimately responsible for a business' success and the profitability. This makes the calibration of test and measurement equipment essential to multiple industries, including aerospace, life sciences, medical equipment, and general manufacturing. Regardless of the industry, the use of out-of-tolerance (OOT) instruments in day-to-day business compromises quality and credibility. This primer explains the fundamentals of calibration and why it is an essential part of any business plan.
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 | Fast and Easy Package Inspection
Date: July 26, 2011
Fast and Easy Package Inspection The BOA™ from Teledyne DALSA is a tiny (41 mm3 cube) “smart camera” (see Figure 1). This smart camera contains an image sensor – as in a regular digital camera – image processing computers, communications, and machine vision software, all in a package that is IP67 (wash-down) rated and requires no cooling.
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| Calibration is NOT a DIY Project
Date: May 19, 2011
White Paper: Calibration is NOT a DIY Project
In order to stay profitable while delivering both quality and value, companies often find themselves looking for ways to reduce costs and free up valuable resources. Most companies discover they cannot effectively perform their own calibrations because of the many associated costs. One solution is to outsource difficult-to-manage functions that lie outside core processes. Calibration services can fall within this category.
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| Calibration Basics and Best Practices
Date: March 30, 2011
White Paper: Calibration Basics and Best Practices
Calibration is essential to improving a company’s bottom line and maintaining a superior reputation. Determine if calibration is a do-it-yourself operation or one that should be outsourced. This white paper outlines calibration basics, best practices and how these actions can ensure product quality, increase efficiency, decrease turnaround time and reduce costs.
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 | Tap Into Blue Chip Metrology Expertise
Date: January 11, 2011
The business of manufacturing is a colossal world of outsourcing: from product design to parts to services. This practice makes it possible to leverage expertise when you need it. In a field such as metrology where the difficulty of finding and training qualified staff remains an industry-wide issue, outsourcing is a growing nationwide trend.
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| Modern CMM Design Concepts
Date: May 14, 2010
Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are used in practically every industry that requires precise dimensional inspection of manufactured parts. In today’s competitive environment, manufacturers demand CMMs that are accurate, reliable, fast, economical, and provide maximum flexibility with respect to operating environment. In order to meet these often conflicting requirements and provide maximum value in the products delivered to their customers, CMM manufacturers must make informed design decisions, intelligent material choices, and employ novel techniques.
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 | An Introduction to Portable CMMs
Date: June 23, 2009
Many advances in CMM technology have occurred over the decades, including the development of portable CMMs. Portable CMMs provide all the benefits of traditional CMMs but with added flexibility. They are lightweight and can therefore be used anywhere measurement is needed (the machine goes to the part). A controlled environment is not required and operation is very simple. They provide highly accurate results and are robust enough to work in a wide range of environments. Portable CMMs are also typically much less expensive than a traditional CMM.
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 | Choosing the Right Extensometer for Every Materials Testing Application
Date: October 17, 2008
In materials and component testing the range of applications where extensometers are used is extremely diverse. As a result, the technical requirements for these devices are multifaceted, which means that there is no single device which satisfies all needs. As a pioneer and global leader in modern extensometry, the Zwick Roell Group believes that it offers its customers the widest range of technical advice, products and solutions.
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 | Building a Culture of Compliance
Date: March 3, 2008
This report is about understanding compliance and compliance management adequately to ensure that your organization has the business processes and tools in place to transform compliance from a burden to a benefit. It describes a culture of compliance as an integral part of the organization’s ethics and describes the elements of compliance that are common throughout the organization. It also suggests a plan to manage and coordinate the common elements of compliance so they can produce efficiencies, maintain consistency, improve reliability and assurance, and result in increased stakeholder confidence. Finally, it identifies the key elements of a system to coordinate compliance management, and provides an executive checklist to help assess your organization’s culture of compliance.
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 | The Factory Diagnosis Diagram
Date: December 13, 2007
As a rule, counting, measurement and experimental data of various origins are initially protocolled or stored in the order of their occurrence. For descriptive and/or analytical processing of such data, it is often advantageous, at times even mandatory, to sort the data in ascending or descending order according to their size, i.e., to bring them into a so-called rank order. In particular, in applied statistics, rank orders form the foundation for certain evaluation methods or graphical presentations, for example in probability charts.
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 | Data Integrity and Industrial Reliability via Wireless Mesh Networks
Date: August 1, 2007
Industrial environments demand rugged and reliable solutions regardless of the type of system to be deployed. Electronics as a group are some of the most mechanically and performance fragile systems that live on the shop floor. Within this environment there are frequent examples of noise and interference sources that disturb or otherwise impair the reliable functioning of electronics. More and more, wireless sensors and metrology instruments are being deployed in production areas. Wireless systems deliver their quality or production data to critical operations downstream and are crucial components of the modern production reality. With this said, wireless data transmission of data is critically needed and simultaneously vulnerable to shop induced interference.
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 | New 3D Parameters and Filtration Techniques for Surface Metrology
Date: May 15, 2007
For a long time surface metrology has been based upon measurement using 2D profilometers. Over the past twenty years the appearance of 3D profilometers and non-contact gauges has created a need for the standardization and formalization of the analysis of 3D surface texture. This paper presents the current status of the standardization process and includes a short description of the tools and parameters that will become available to users when work on the definition of the new standards, which is being carried out by working groups WG15 and WG16 of ISO technical committee TC213, has been completed.
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