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Welcome to Manufacturing

July 31, 2012
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation wants to highlight the opportunities in manufacturing. Rodney Grover, senior development officer at the SME Education Foundation, explains how the Edge Factor video series, EduFactor classroom videos, and a Reality Redesigned student design competition are trying to give the manufacturing industry a better image. For more information, visit www.edgefactor.com.
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Valve Leakage Detection in Industrial Pumps

July 24, 2012
Deploying an embedded system with that could be retrofitted onto existing pumps, to monitor and analyze mud pump vibrations. helped reduce human exposure to hazardous environments.
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Computed Tomography: Why Manufacturers Can't Afford Not to Use It

July 24, 2012
Computed Tomography (CT) has been around for years. The completeness and clarity of information provided by CT technology has improved dramatically over the last several years, and its benefits are nothing short of amazing when compared with merely looking at and probing patients from the outside.
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Achieving 100% Automotive Component Inspection

July 23, 2012
With pressure to reduce cost while improving productivity, every automotive manufacturer has had to consider in-process quality control. To an extent, quality has become a given, but there still remains a huge variance in the sampling rate depending upon a particular manufacturing component and process.
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How Kanban Can Change Your Life

July 12, 2012
Kanban can change your life. More specifically, it can change your professional life and how well you manage your projects.
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Readers Respond: GD&T Workshop: Decoding Feature Control Frames

June 21, 2012
Quality LinkedIn group members analyze the importance of this concept. Read excerpts of the discussion and post your own feedback.
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How Does Fixturing Improve Quality?

June 20, 2012
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In an interview with Quality magazine, Otto Geiseman, business unit manager of Carl Zeiss IMT's Junker & Partner Detroit, describes how fixturing technology can help readers, and explains the fixturing market today. www.carlzeiss.com/metrology
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Readers Respond: What is a Skilled Worker, Exactly?

June 20, 2012
Quality LinkedIn Discussion Group members discuss the skills shortage in U.S. manufacturing, and debate just what a skilled worker entails.
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The Legacy of Eugene Grant

June 20, 2012
Eugene L. Grant was one of American Society for Quality’s select honorary members-a true giant of quality.
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Seeing Through Defects

June 4, 2012
IDS machine vision cameras locate the smallest defects in twenty football fields of parquet flooring.
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