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Basler Celebrates 30th Anniversary

What began as a two-man operation in the technical center in Lübeck has developed into a world manufacturer of industrial cameras.

North American Machine Vision Market Grows 19% in First Quarter of 2018, Sets New Records

The machine vision components category grew 28% to a new record high of $107 million during the first quarter.

Hexagon Acquires SPRING Technologies, Makers of Machine Tool Simulation and Verification Software

SPRING's flagship portfolio, NCSIMUL, is a comprehensive suite of integrated solutions providing native CNC code programming, CNC sim...

ATEQ Adds Ninth ISO/IEC 17025 Certified Lab

ISO 17025 specifies quality management requirements for the competence and consistent operation of laboratories to produce precise and ac...

Jim's Gems: Customer Relationships

How we recover from a mishap is where the possibilities lie.

Buehler Celebrates 20 Consecutive Years Of ISO Certification With DQS Inc.

Most recently, Buehler achieved ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certifications. The company develops material applications and product i...

Hexagon Challenges Industry to 'Rethink' Quality

IoT has the ability to alter nearly every facet of our lives, Hexagon CEO Ola Rollen said.

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Management

What is the Value to Your Company of a Leaner, More Productive Inspection Process?

Dwighd Delgado

Quite often in manufacturing, an inspection department is treated primarily as a necessary overhead expense required to assure compliance to customer specifications. Sometimes an inspection department may also be treated …

Measurement

Precision Manufacturing

Zeiss

Camcraft Inc., located in Hanover Park, IL, manufactures high-precision components and assemblies. Utilizing the latest machining technology and automation, Camcraft manufactures the most complex hydraulic engine management and fuel system …

Measurement

Using CMMs for Surface Finish Measurement

Edward McMenamin

When explaining surface finish measurement, it can be helpful to start with the classic metaphor of a desert, as often described by gage maker Taylor Hobson. Imagine grains of sand …

Quality Blog

Hexagon Challenges Industry to 'Rethink' Quality

Edward McMenamin

IoT has the ability to alter nearly every facet of our lives, Hexagon CEO Ola Rollen said. …

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NDT

The Precision of a New Generation

Stefan Stelzl

Eddy current displacement sensors combine several advantages. They provide high precision and resolution on a wear-free, noncontact basis. They are resistant to external influences such as dirt, pressure and fluctuating …

NDT

With XRF Measurement, the Goal is Achieving Low Limits of Detection Precisely—and Fast

Jun Choi

X-ray fluorescence is an elemental analysis tool that has been a mainstay of test labs for decades. A versatile NDT method that demands only minimal sample prep and can be …

Software

Seven Ways Gage Management Improves Product Quality and Enables Growth

Louis Columbus

Discovering the underlying factors that influence compliance, product quality, production efficiency and your performance as a supplier requires greater accuracy and precision than many manufacturing metrics provide. …

Partners

Management

Reengineering Capital Project “Rework”

Carl L Drechsel

Almost 30 years ago the Construction Industry Institute (CII) researched the “Costs of Quality Deviations in Design and Construction,” and concluded that, “The average cost of rework on industrial projects exceeds 12%.” Design deviations accounted for about 80% of the increased cost and construction deviations only 20%.

Measurement

Understanding Calibration Reports

Hill Cox

Calibration reports are supposed to be clear and concise so the reader can understand the details. In fact, the ISO 17025 standard has a section that deals with this topic in specific terms so it would seem there should be no room for misinterpretation.

Blogs

Jim's Gems: Customer Relationships

How we recover from a mishap is where the possibilities lie.

Hexagon Challenges Industry to 'Rethink' Quality

By Edward McMenamin

Jim's Gems: Power of Imagination

By Jim L. Smith

Measurement

Putting You in Your Place

Darryl Seland

It has been said that one of the greatest attributes of humankind is the want and need to bring order to and better understand the universe and our place in it. To do this, we have qualified, quantified, and categorized just about everything around us and analyzed and ranked the relationships among just about all things.

Materials Testing & Analysis

Back to Basics: Material Testing Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics

Edward McMenamin

Carbon fiber reinforced plastics, or CFRPs, are found throughout the aerospace and automotive industries, as well as in high-performance sporting goods, due to their light-weight, high-strength properties.

Cost-Effective Quality Inspection

Solving 3D Measurement Challenges Posed by Reflective Surfaces

Edward McMenamin

As multi-sensor machines grow in popularity, so does their flexibility and the variety of optional sensors. One of the newest solutions of choice is confocal white light sensors for non-contact measurement.

NDT

Using Phased Array UT for Austenitic Weld Inspections

Guy Maes

Industrial radiography (RT) is a time-tested technique for examining a welded joint and the heat-affected zone after manufacturing.

Quality Magazine

2018 June

Check out the June 2018 edition of Quality: The State of Quality, and much more!

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