International Truck and Engine Corp. (International)—the operating company of Navistar International Corp. and the world's largest producer of mid-range diesel engines—has achieved new levels of quality verification, system productivity and flexibility.
Computed tomography inspects parts using 3-D images. • The complex geometries and miniaturization of critical components that are used by the automotive, electronics and aerospace industries require feature recognition down to the micron levels.
An aircraft made with a composite fuselage is 20% lighter, and costs less than one manufactured with an aluminum fuselage, and because of this, Raytheon Aircraft (Wichita, KS) decided to build its Premier I and Hawker Horizon business jets with composite fuselages rather than aluminum.
Expanding the measuring choices for die inserts used in multilayer regis-tration systems for printed circuit boards has helped reduce inspection time for Multiline Technology Inc. (Farmingdale, NY).
Whether across the country or at the other end of a factory, a part or process can be seen in near-to-real-time with the click of a mouse by capturing digital images and transferring them via the Internet or other computer network.
Manufacturing operations throughout the industry have ignored geometric bonus tolerances, caused by varying feature sizes, when assessing statistical process capability from variables data.