Suppose you want a machine vision system to automatically detect scratches on a plastic part such as a cell phone case. You know that the scratches will be nearly straight lines and that they can be low contrast and discontinuous.
Over the course of 20 years, I’ve visited hundreds of different factory floors and seen a wide variety of manufacturers implement data collection and statistical process control (SPC) solutions.
In his well-renowned 1959 lecture, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” Physicist Richard Feynman challenged his colleagues in the scientific community to think more practically and abandon looking for answers on the large scale—i.e. the composition of the universe, gravitational effects on planets—and instead look at matter on a smaller scale, the atomic scale.
With the attention Six Sigma has been receiving, I thought it might be interesting to offer my perspective as someone who worked from the inside of a large organization to launch a major Six Sigma initiative.
Before I get into hand-to-hand combat on this gentle reader, I thought it might be helpful to explain a few things about what uncertainty is, and what it is not.
Parties to legal disputes often reflexively consider suing one another in litigation. As an alternative, parties can use alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”), including arbitration and mediation.
Since 2010, ASQ has been pleased to host the World Quality Month website, offering organizations around the world an opportunity to celebrate successes and share results for others to learn from.
Bright Plastics utilizes Synergy SPC software to further differentiate itself in the marketplace.
November 3, 2014
Bright Plastics manufactures plastic injection-molded parts for a diversity of industries, resulting in broad expertise and experience in meeting a range of industry-specific manufacturing needs.
Automotive testing applications present a diverse set of challenges to the designers of test systems, and the need for ever-more powerful and user-friendly test stands continues to grow as vehicle systems become more complex and more is understood about what actually occurs in real world conditions.
ZEISS introduced LSM 880 with Airyscan a new confocal laser scanning microscope that offers high sensitivity, enhanced resolution in X, Y and Z, and high image-acquisition speed in one system.
Mitutoyo’s QM-Height digital height gages line offers high accuracy measurements of 4.5microns and high resolution linear encoders for position detection.