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The Missing Link in Quality 4.0: Building the Business Case for Executive Buy-In and Company Engagement

Sophia Finn

Quality 4.0 is the latest initiative for companies looking to improve operational efficiency and product quality through digital technology. Transforming quality management is essential to address the major challenges posed …

Software

A Pulse on Quality 4.0 for Medical Device Manufacturing

Scott Reedy

Quality 4.0 derived from Industry 4.0, also known as the fourth industrial revolution. Prior to the fourth revolution, the first revolution started with machine manufacturing, steam power, and the move …

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Test & Inspection

ECA Probes Improve Inspection Flexibility—in More Ways than One

Bill Ziegenhagen

Eddy current array (ECA) technology has long been used for nondestructive testing in aerospace, power generation, oil and gas, and other industrial applications. It’s a fast, accurate, chemical-free method for …

Test & Inspection

The Mechanical Properties of Plastics

Kayla Thackeray

Products and packaging undergo continual revision and improvement, with most companies constantly striving to use less material, simplify their manufacturing processes, and make their products more user friendly. …

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Vision & Sensors

Self-learning Robots Solve Tasks with the Help of an Ensenso 3D Camera

Sabine Terrasi

Trying out different behaviours is one of the classic learning methods. Success or failure decides which behaviour is adopted. This principle can be transferred to the world of robots. …

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Vision & Sensors

Machine Vision: Inspecting Reflective Surfaces with Deflectometry

Johannes Hiltner

Machine vision processes have become standard practice in quality assurance. Inspecting reflective surfaces, however, presents a challenge. A technology known as deflectometry can be used to reliably detect all types …

Vision & Sensors

Better Processing Power Makes Fast and Precise Color Vision a Reality

James Mortell

In the past, the amount of processing power necessary to perform color-based machine vision applications was often an insurmountable hurdle. Even when manufacturers did offer color vision, they would typically …

Partners

Post-Process Monitoring, Part 2

Darryl Seland

The fundamental goal of automation is to reduce reliance on manpower. Whether for traditional manufacturing or additive manufacturing, it is important to understand the capabilities of supporting post-process manufacturing and metrology for validating that process.

Microscopes, Metallurgy, and Metrology

Manufacturers Show Their ‘Metal’ Using the Imaging Power of Digital Microscopes

Darryl Seland

Quality control of products with metal-based materials can be challenging, from working with recycled metals to the rise of additive manufacturing (AM).

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Growth

By Jim L. Smith

In some way, personal growth is almost always uncomfortable.

Excuses

By Jim L. Smith

Thought Power

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Process Control in Manufacturing

Post-Process Monitoring

Darryl Seland

So, what do we mean when we talk of post-process monitoring? Quite simply, it is the process used to monitor both the process and the finished product against their specifications, which include logging process routines and results in order to inform the machining and finalizing of the product.

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Company Projects: Get Everyone Involved

Michelle Bangert

Picture this. A workplace filled with staff members excited about their work, driven to do their best and striving for improvements every day.

Modern Quality Control With SPC

Food, Glorious Food: How It's "goodness" is Ensured

Darryl Seland

It’s no surprise that food and beverage companies, in order to protect consumers and their brands’ relationships with them, require assurances that the contract manufacturers with whom they work follow strict safety and quality standards. That is where the Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI), a division of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), comes in.

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The Excellence Loop: A Model for Transforming Manufacturing Quality Management—and Continuous Improvement

Quality professionals know that it’s not productive to try to solve quality issues in isolation. Instead, create an environment of continuous improvement with a cyclical model—and centralized quality data.

Quality Magazine

2019 December

Check out the December 2019 edition of Quality: Quality 4.0 for medical device manufacturing, automated metrology, gage trends, plastics, materials analysis and much more!

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