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Radiant Vision Systems Announces New Office Location in Novi, MI

Radiant Vision Systems announced that it has opened an office in Novi, MI.

Exact Metrology Educates Middle School Students

On March 28, 2019, Exact Metrology was among several companies who came to Latonia Elemen-tary Career Day.

Automated Objectivity: Eliminating Quality Testing Subjectivity

Did you like the movie? Who is the better candidate? Is that coffee too strong? Clearly subjective decision-making has its place in toda...

Climb up the QA Maturity Ladder

Estimate your current QA maturity, beware of the acute challenges, turn to QA consulting or TCoE and evaluate the effectiveness of undert...

Mark-10 Celebrates 40 Years

Mark-10 Corporation is celebrating its 40th year of engineering and manufacturing force and torque measurement solutions.

With Acquisition of GOM, ZEISS Furthers Goal of Technological Leadership in Industrial Metrology, Quality Assurance

Customers will benefit from combined Industrial Quality & Research portfolio.

Manufacturing Institute, POLITICO’s Women Rule Launch Partnership

Partnership to inspire and recruit the next generation of modern manufacturers.

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XRF Analysis: What Labs and Lines Really Want—and New Features That Get Them There

Jun Choi

Innovations in the electronics and semiconductor industries have birthed two relentless trends. Both profoundly impact both product designers and those charged with assuring that what was designed is what was …

NDT

NDT Automation

Rahul Alreja

In the previous article, we touched upon NDT 4.0 and provided a glimpse into what it is and how it is transforming industries around the globe. Now we will dive …

Medical

Four Dangerous Myths about Quality that May Cost Lives

Anne Holland

Quality is often misunderstood. More specifically, the benefits of a well implemented quality management system (QMS) are not universally known and appreciated, and that can cost lives. Conversely, when executives …

Management

2019 Quality Professional of the Year | Gary Griffith: Advancing the Inspection Field

Michelle Bangert

If you’ve ever suffered through a difficult lesson, you were likely not in Gary Griffith’s class. Griffith teaches geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), quality audits, measuring and gaging, and other quality-related …

Management

What Chief Quality Officers Should be Concerned About in 2019

Tom Seadler

In these highly competitive times, it may seem as though improving productivity is the key to market share. Manufacturers often focus on improving productivity and managing, controlling and reducing costs. …

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Vision & Sensors

Why Smart Cameras are the Ideal Solution for Traceability

Robin Kallsen

The power of smart cameras lies in their ability to combine a wide range of functions—locating objects, extracting data from barcodes, “reading” alphanumeric characters—into a single, compact device. …

NDT and Industry 4.0

Rahul Alreja

What is Industry 4.0? This buzzword seems to have been thrown around for quite some time now. How is it affecting today’s NDT manufacturing processes compared to the past? What …

Partners

Measurement

Understanding Quality Planning best practices to establish and meet quality standards and drive productivity

Increasingly, today’s progressive global manufacturers are implementing thoughtful, collaborative and comprehensive forms of front-end quality planning.

White Papers

How Can You Improve Product Safety? Enhance your Quality Management System with ISO 9001:2015

ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System certification makes companies demonstrate their commitment to meeting the highest standards of quality and customer satisfaction. It provides support in continuously improving your quality management systems as a competitive advantage.

Blogs

Automation Arrives in Chicago

By Michelle Bangert

The Automate Show brought thousands of robots to Chicago this week. The robots were serving ice cream and beer, playing music, and in one case, boxing. They were wowing attendees with their speed and service, musical skills (the KUKA ones wore bows for their performance), and fight demos. Machine vision and image analysis was also on display.

Taking Responsibility

By Jim L. Smith

Say Bye to Negativity

By Jim L. Smith

Design Your Data Management Process for Success

Modern smart manufacturing brings with it greater efficiency, increased productivity — and new challenges for collecting and analyzing measurement data. How can you achieve absolute precision in both production and reporting?

Medical

Repeatability, Reproducibility and Traceability for Medical Compliance

For medical parts manufacturers, quality inspection is critical. Liability for defects, inconsistent quality, fluctuating supplier costs, increased globalization and device regulations all pose challenges for the industry.

Measurement

Unlock the hidden potential of your CMMs

Measurement is vital to any manufacturing business, providing essential information to control processes and verify products. But older co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs) can become bottlenecks if they fail to keep pace with changing measurement needs.

Take Your Quality to the Next Level

Why Do We Need Statistics Anyway? Capable and Stable Processes

Why statistics? Because they are possibly the most useful tool we have to understand what might happen.

Quality Magazine

2019 April

Check out the April 2019 edition of Quality: 2019 Quality Professional of the Year, robotics, automation, NDT, and much more!

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