Special guest speaker Dr. Michael Grieves from the Florida Institute of Technology joins president Norbert Hanke and Senior Vice President Software Solutions Brian Shepherd for keynote presentation.
Construction of the new building marks the last phase of a five-year, 37,000 square-foot expansion of the company’s global engineering and manufacturing headquarters.
The first step to process improvement is machine performance measurement and diagnosis. However, it’s a step that many OEMs and service providers—even quality professionals—fail to approach with as much rigor as other steps, like process setting and in-process control.
Initially established as a dedicated reseller of Edgecam, ProCAM has expanded its offering to include Radan as well as complementary packages in the production software space.
If you want to get technical, this topic is better dealt with by others since it is a quality matter rather than dimensional metrology where I hide out. But, disputes go on every day over measurements and sometimes resolving them can be quite challenging—when possible.
The biggest trend we are seeing in the manufacturing industry is automating the inspection process using robots. According to a projection from ABI Research, the number of industrial robots sold in the U.S. will jump nearly 300% in less than a decade.