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Eddy-Current Testing Chops False Rejects

May 8, 2003
At Delphi Automotive's Chassis Div. plant (Sandusky, OH), the inspection of automotive wheel spindle bearings used to be a slow and costly process.
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Whither Productivity?

May 8, 2003
Experts agree that the wellspring of a healthy economy is productivity growth. It's what fueled the economic boom of the late 1990s.
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The Quest for Open Systems

May 8, 2003
No one doubts the enormous benefits that open-architecture computing holds for quality control systems and continuous improvement programs.
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Sound Practices: Ultrasonic Gaging Advances

May 8, 2003
For more than 50 years, quality control practitioners have relied upon ultrasonic techniques as a way to nondestructively gage the thickness of manufacturing materials.
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Desire for Accuracy Drives Digital Tools

May 8, 2003
Ciceri Smith was a quality-driven manufacturer. He made wire mesh at his plant in Edinburgh, Scotland, and he wanted to improve quality by providing his workers with a micrometer that they could easily read.
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Seeing Machine Vision in a Different Light

May 8, 2003
In case you haven't looked lately, machine vision technology has done a lot of growing up since the first systems arrived on the scene some 30 years ago.
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Comparator Boosts Inspection Accuracy

May 5, 2003
Acu Twist Co. (Ridgeway, PA) was facing a dilemma. The company, a small manufacturer of special-order cutting tools, had a potential new customer who wanted a helical tapered tool with tight, angular tolerances of +/-2 minutes.
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Hardness Testing Gets Up and Goes

May 5, 2003
Portable hardness testers have finally come into their own within the past few years.
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Calipers Resist Moisture, Contaminants

May 5, 2003
Electronic calipers may seem like simple measuring devices. But when contaminants in the work environment cause calipers to fail, their importance can quickly become clear.
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Access the World of NDT

May 5, 2003
Explore the options of NDT at ASNT's annual fall conference.
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