During the past 25 years, coordinate measuring machine (CMM) sensor technology has expanded from tactile and scanning systems to now include optical, laser and surface finish sensors, effectively expanding the CMM’s capabilities.
As a quality manager, it’s your worst nightmare. One of your best customers comes for a visit and brings a box of cracked parts that came from your plant. He wants to know how it happened, and how you are going to ensure it won’t happen again.
In early stages of industrialization, products were simpler, factories were smaller, most processes were manual, and process flows were shorter. Contact with customers was direct between production and customer.
My journey in dimensional inspection and quality started what seems like a lifetime ago when I ran the one-CMM quality department in my father’s aerospace engineering firm. Thirty years later, my passion for American ingenuity has never been stronger.
Noted American astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain.
This question is prompted by another round-robin type study involving the calibration of thread plug gages, the results of which were predictable because similar studies over the past twenty years or so have produced similar results.
While there is no possible way to fit the entire history of quality in one column (or 20), the following is an attempt to bring some of the ideas and people of yesteryear to our minds today.
R&R Fixtures offers modular CMM, white light/ laser scanner fixturing tables up to 60 x 120 in. (1,500mm x 3000mm) in size to accommodate any size of part your application may need.
Titan Tool Supply, Inc. announces the introduction of models TM-8 and TM-10 high-magnification measuring microscopes with Vernier micrometer heads for inspection of electronic and semiconductor components, metallurgical parts, plastic molds, electrical strips, and other industrial quality control applications.
AMETEK Creaform has introduced VXinspect, a 3-D inspection software that includes all the tools for first article inspection (FAI) and quality control.
Fluke Corp. has released a firmware upgrade for the Fluke 810 Vibration Tester that helps mechanical maintenance teams more quickly identify and prioritize mechanical problems.
Fluke Corp. adds two new dc current clamps to the Fluke Connect system of wireless test tools: the Fluke a3003 FC Wireless DC Current Clamp and the a3004 FC Wireless DC 4-20 mA Current Clamp.
Nikon Metrology introduces its latest CMM laser scanner, the Nikon InSight L100. Nikon’s improved optics combined with innovative camera technology resulted in this new Nikon scanner.