"Quality is a way of life in a business, not an advertising term."-- Robert W. Galvin, President, Motorola Inc., October 1962, Quality Assurance magazine.
SwePart Transmission AB (Liatorp, Sweden), which manufactures more than 100 different types of gear parts for heavy trucks, was looking for a way to improve its manufacturing process by reducing the need for manual parts measurement.
Are there too many tools or not enough? Parker Hannifin, Aerospace Group (Irvine, CA) realized it didn't know the answer and needed to find a tool crib management system that would control tooling inventory, tooling costs and machine downtime.