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Who Needs Frame Grabbers, Anyway?

Originally developed to acquire raw images from analog machine vision cameras, frame grabbers were once expected to be replaced by direct-to-PC technologies. Experience has, however, been otherwise.
March 5, 2013

Frame grabbers were developed in the early days of machine vision to provide a connection from analog cameras providing NTSC and PAL output signals to minicomputers requiring digital signals placed directly on data buses for digital memory storage.


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Management

Tight Tolerances at Top Tool

March 1, 2013

Collaboration with customers, aggressive miniaturization, and advanced part qualification have earned this micro stamping component supplier the title of 2013 Quality Plant of Year.


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Software & Analysis

Improve Your Quality Records

Computer technology has done amazing things since the first APQP document was published.
March 1, 2013

Delegating and nodding in agreement is not the way to get things done.


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Measurement

A Move in the Right Direction

Without the proper alignment, 3-D measurement can be exciting—and not in a good way.
March 1, 2013

There’s nothing quite as exciting as diving for the E-Stop button when your computer numerical control (CNC) measuring system takes off at high speed in the wrong direction.


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Test & Inspection

Choosing and Using the Right Thread Gage

It pays to review the basics on proper gaging of internal threads.
March 1, 2013

In today’s demanding manufacturing environment, it is vital that all of your threaded parts are properly inspected with the correct types of thread gages.


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Case Study

A Vision for Quality

Visual inspection tops list of key quality control procedures for Illinois-based Mennie Machine Co.
March 1, 2013

Recently, on tour of the facility with Kyle Goetsch, Mennie’s quality manager, he explained how Mennie Machine has survived, and thrived.


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Case Study

X-Ray Computed Tomography Expertise Helps Build a Business

Avonix Imaging helps educate the market on the advantages of this “largely untapped” technology.
March 1, 2013

Akoan is a statement, question or phrase in Zen study designed to get a student to stop, contemplate, and hopefully progress and deepen his or her practice.


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Case Study

CNC Manufacturing Company Aims for Precision Automated Inspection

It was time to refine the quality inspection system beyond the mostly manual process.
March 1, 2013

2A Armament, located in Boise, Idaho, is a CNC manufacturing company that works in the firearms and defense industries as well as medical, prosthetic, motorsports, semiconductor and outdoor recreation markets.


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NDT - Magnetic Particle Inspection

Magnetic Particle Powder Performance

Choosing the correct type of magnetic particles for your application will go a long way toward getting the most reliable results.
February 11, 2013

The magnetic particle method of nondestructive testing is used for locating surface and near-subsurface discontinuities in ferromagnetic materials.


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NDT - Certification

The Expansion of Certification

Learn more about the expansion of NDE personnel certification schemes beyond SNT-TC-1A.
February 11, 2013

Traditionally in the United States, the basis for the certification and qualification of NDE personnel has been The American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Recommended Practice SNT-TC-1A.


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Multimedia

Videos

Podcasts

Bill Arbogast explains his perspective on quality, ISO 9001, and how to manage inevitable business changes.


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Check out the May 2013 edition of Quality Magazine for features about Measurement, Software and Test & Inspection.
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The purpose of this field guide is to assist organizations, step by step, in implementing a quality management system (QMS) in conformance with ISO 9001:2008, whether from scratch or by transitioning from ISO 9001:2000. It examines each sub-clause of Sections 4–8 of ISO 9001:2008, which contain the requirements, and gives a list of the documentation/documents required, internal audit questions, a summary of management’s responsibilities, and a flowchart of the steps that need to be undertaken to satisfy the requirements.

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