Digital twin technology helps organizations to use real-time data, mockups, algorithms, and AI to create a virtual depiction of a physical object, process, or service.
May 9, 2022
Experts agree that, among other tools, digital twins are emerging as stars of smart factories. These are 3D duplicates of parts, products, and buildings.
By increasing the frequency of inspections and decreasing the time of inspection throughout the production process, inspecting in or near the production line allows for verification of 100% of components.
May 3, 2022
Today’s manufactured components are more multifaceted than ever, requiring more parts, additional updates to those parts and ever tighter tolerances.
As technology continues to evolve, it will take a lot of work from the standards community to help the industry keep pace with news tools for new manufacturing methods.
Measurement and inspection standards are traditionally updated on a regular schedule. However, the form measurement standard for out of roundness, B89.3.1, has not been updated since its initial release in 1972, and is no longer an active standard available through ANSI.
“Measurement uncertainty is the expression of the statistical dispersion of the values attributed to a measured quantity. All measurements are subject to uncertainty and a measurement result is complete only when it is accompanied by a statement of the associated uncertainty, such as the stand deviation."
Model-based definition is not new, but manufacturers have only recently begun to use it as part of the quality assurance process.
April 11, 2022
As the manufacturing industry increases its focus on quality control, and parts become more diversified and complex automatic measurement programming is on the rise.
For most students, measurement and GD&T is a new subject for them. I get the opportunity to review the basic concepts each year. Let's review some of the elements of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing.