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Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems

Cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $8.0 Billion.

JAI Opens New Office in Singapore

JAI has announced the opening of a new office and production facility in Singapore to further strengthen its global sales, support and manu…

Manufacturers Call on ‘Armed Thugs’ to Cease Violence at Capitol

CEO Timmons said, “This is not the vision of America that manufacturers believe in and work so hard to defend.”

Fail Successfully

I recall a study where many people believed they failed more than half the time.

Verisurf Software Partners With OpenX to Close Skills Gap

Online metrology skills development supports career advancement.

Ames Appointed President, CEO of Tekscan

Tekscan, Inc. announced that its board of directors has appointed Jeff Ames as President & CEO, effective immediately.

U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Totaled $383.8M in October, Up 3.7% from September

U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders totaled $383.8 million in October 2020, an increase of 3.7% from September 2020, and the highest dolla…

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Automotive

The Hybrid Approach

Hanan Gino

For the past few decades, consumers have rewarded companies that customize their products and services to individual tastes and needs. …

Vision & Sensors

Engineered Lighting For Machine Vision: Part 1 of 3

Perry C. West

You have probably heard, and perhaps experienced, that lighting is a big challenge in applying machine vision and a vital key to its successful application. …

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Vision & Sensors

2D Optical Measurement For 100% Component Inspection

Eduardo Bolivar

Recently, an automotive parts manufacturer was searching for a system to measure over 4,000 individually machined components a day. …

Vision & Sensors

Robots Pave Way For Sustainable Mobility

ABB

Energy storage systems play an important role in the electrification and decarbonization of road and rail transport. …

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Measurement

Calipers 102: The Basics and Beyond

Michal Grosenbach

Calipers are an integral tool for many applications, yet they’re a tool that likely doesn’t garner much reflection. Whether you’ve been using them for years or are investing in them …

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Medical

Quality's 21st Annual Spending Survey

Genevieve Diesing

In our 21st Annual Spending Survey, we’ve looked into who will be buying what and when. Despite the economic upset resulting from COVID-19, equipment budgets look to be steady, if …

Management

Building a Sustainable Future

Willem Sundblad

This past year has been ripe with massive disruptions. In fact, 94% of manufacturers surveyed say demand has significantly changed as a result of COVID-19. …

Partners

The Opportunities of Risk in the Supply Chain

Darryl Seland

Vaccines are being rolled out across the globe. The process is occurring faster in some areas than others, sure, but the fact that a vaccine is being distributed at all means that the worst is behind us and that everything will go back to normal. Right?

Test & Inspection

First Article Inspection: It’s the Standard

Darryl Seland

Ever since the revolution of Henry Ford’s assembly line, it has been possible to produce identical complex products in drastically less time. It was the inception of mass production as we know it today.

Blogs

Fail Successfully

By Jim L. Smith

I recall a study where many people believed they failed more than half the time.

Self-Accountability

By Jim L. Smith

Education vs Learning

By Jim L. Smith

NDT

DÜRR NDT Flat Panel Detector

DÜRR NDT’s new DRC 2430HE NDT flat panel detector has been specially developed for applications with high energies and can be used with both X-ray and gamma sources.

New Products

Olympus RollerFORM XL Phased Array Scanner

Olympus’ new RollerFORM™ XL scanner answers the demand for a wide-coverage and easy-to-implement phased array tool to accelerate the inspection of composite components with large surface areas.

Modernize SPC

5 Reasons You Need to Embrace Digital Transformation Now

Today, manufacturers are experiencing five-plus years of innovation on the plant floor in the space of 12 to 18 months. Changes that traditionally would have taken 5 to 10 years of innovation are now being rushed through on these kinds of sub-year timescales. That's quite phenomenal.

Modern Quality Control With SPC

Continuous Improvement: Defining Zero Defects in Your Manufacturing Environment

The pursuit of zero defects revolves around a defined mindset. You set up a direction to focus your employees. And when everyone is thinking about it and striving to make it happen, that focus enables breakthrough improvements to happen.

Quality Magazine

2021 January

Check out the January 2021 edition of Quality: Analytics and QMS solutions, color management, leak testing for batteries, Quality 2021 Spending Survey, calipers and much more!

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