"In a company valued by its owners for its ability to generate cash, training is often seen as an expensive waste of capital," wrote one respondent to Quality Online's training survey.
For more than 50 years, quality control practitioners have relied upon ultrasonic techniques as a way to nondestructively gage the thickness of manufacturing materials.
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.
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.