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Olympus Honored by Laser Focus World 2018 Innovators Awards Program

The judging panel consisted of senior industry experts who honored the microscope with a Silver award.

JEOL and Digital Surf Partner to Launch Smile View Map Software

The software is specifically designed for scanning electron microscope users.

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Invites Attendees to Rethink Quality at HxGN LIVE

Special guest speaker Dr. Michael Grieves from the Florida Institute of Technology joins president Norbert Hanke and Senior Vice Presiden...

Max Life Insurance Improves Efficiencies, Wins Top Honors in ASQ’s ITEA Process

Annual award recognizes team quality projects that improved accuracy and increased cost savings.

Hexagon Acquires Industrial Measurement and Inspection Provider NEXTSENSE GmbH

NEXTSENSE specializes in solutions for the automotive, railway, steel and aerospace industries.

Jim's Gems: Luck and Success

You have to accept responsibility for choices you make or don't make.

Quality Vision International Breaks Ground on New Manufacturing Facility

Construction of the new building marks the last phase of a five-year, 37,000 square-foot expansion of the company’s global engineer...

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L.S. Starrett Bluetooth-Enabled Electronic Digital Bore Gages

The L.S. Starrett Company has introduced two new Bluetooth® enabled series of electronic digital bore gages with a range of accuracy and convenience features for increasing measurement throughput when inspecting …

Measurement

Air Gaging in a High Production, Automated Manufacturing Environment

Chris Koehn

The biggest trend we are seeing in the manufacturing industry is automating the inspection process using robots. According to a projection from ABI Research, the number of industrial robots sold …

Energy

Two innovative manufacturing companies share their secrets to energy efficiency and sustainability

Leah Pickett

Last year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) introduced the Better Practice and Better Project awards to honor exceptional energy-efficiency solutions. …

Measurement

Noncontact Laser Measurement

Dennis DeRoos

For manufacturers in the 21st century, ensuring the products they produce are of the right quality is paramount. …

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Vision & Sensors

5 Considerations for Modern Smart Camera Design

Robin Kallsen

Packaging, electronics, automotive, clinical diagnostics… Smart cameras have made their way into all sorts of industries and applications. Machine vision engineers never get to rest on their laurels because there’s …

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Vision & Sensors

Vision & Sensors Lens Selection Guide, Part 1

Nicholas Sischka

Lenses are a complicated and nuanced component in imaging systems. It is not always straightforward which decisions to make when it comes time to choose a lens and what tradeoffs …

Vision & Sensors

Embedded Vision Puts Full Power in Compact Footprint

Alex Shikany

The introduction of the PC and the increasing functionality of integrated circuits created a new market for PC-based single-board computers, frame grabbers, I/O peripherals, graphics, and communications boards—the building blocks …

Partners

Materials Testing & Analysis Features

Observing the Failure of Open-Hole CFRP specimens in Tensile Tests

Offering superior specific strength, even compared to other composite materials, carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) is used in aircraft and some transport vehicles for the purpose of saving fuel through weight reduction.

Management

Quality is a discipline affected by GIGO

Darryl Seland

Garbage in, garbage out. It’s a term born in the early days of the computer and computer programming. The phrase, and its popular acronym, GIGO, are said to have been taken from the business strategies of LIFO and FIFO—last in, first out and first in, first out—as it pertains to inventory management.

Blogs

Jim's Gems: Luck and Success

You have to accept responsibility for choices you make or don't make.

Jim's Gems: Solving Difficult Problems

By Jim L. Smith

Automation and Big Data Take the Lead at Control 2018

By Edward McMenamin

Management

Continuous Improvement occurs when the processes allow for change.

"Quality improvement will result from people improving their processes and from management improving the system," says Thomas Pyzdek, ASQ Fellow.

Process Control in Manufacturing

Selecting the Right Calibration System

Leah Pickett

The first step to process improvement is machine performance measurement and diagnosis. However, it’s a step that many OEMs and service providers—even quality professionals—fail to approach with as much rigor as other steps, like process setting and in-process control.

New Products

L.S. Starrett HVR100-FLIP Benchtop Vision Measurement System

L.S. Starrett Company announced the introduction of the HVR100-FLIP, a new large field-of-vision (FOV) Benchtop Vision Measurement System that is capable of being used in either a vertical or horizontal orientation, features a high-resolution digital video camera and minimal optical distortion for accurate FOV measurements of up to 90mm (3.65 in.).

Measurement

Measurement Dispute Resolution

Hill Cox

If you want to get technical, this topic is better dealt with by others since it is a quality matter rather than dimensional metrology where I hide out. But, disputes go on every day over measurements and sometimes resolving them can be quite challenging—when possible.

Quality Magazine

2018 May

Check out the May 2018 edition of Quality: a green new world, noncontact laser measurement, and much more!

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