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Boulder Imaging Announces Leadership Additions, Team Expansion

Boulder Imaging (BI) announced recent additions to the leadership team: Joey Nesbitt, Director of Hardware Engineering and Kathy Giansira...

Gleason Metrology Systems Expands Accredited Calibration Services

Gleason Metrology Systems’ A2LA Accredited Gear Calibration Laboratory has added ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation and invested in new met...

ATEC Announces Rental Partnership With JULABO USA

Advanced Test Equipment Rentals announced a new rental partnership with JULABO USA.

Personal Growth

If anyone is interested in pursuing personal growth, does this necessarily mean they are a selfish person?

Manufacturers React to the Coronavirus

In these strange times, every industry around the globe has been affected by the coronavirus. And manufacturing is no different.

MESA Announces Development of Smart Manufacturing Model

MESA International announced the development of a new model called “The Model for Smart Manufacturing”.

Quality Responds to Coronavirus

COVID-19 continues to monopolize the world’s attention, and with good reason.

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Test & Inspection

Evolving Quality Processes Propel Growth

Mari Luke

Mike Terrell is the quality assurance manager at B&B Airparts Inc., a machine shop that specializes in manufacturing high precision parts for aerospace OEMs. B&B Airparts Inc. has been in …

Test & Inspection

Multi-Axis Motion Controller Accelerates Gear Testing

Reid Bollinger

Materials testing and characterization is often a lengthy process. It can take more than a year and billions of testing cycles for a manufacturer to characterize the properties of a …

Test & Inspection

Nondestructive Inspection of Automotive Computers

Satoshi Iguchi Akane Garner

In the automotive industry, quality control/assurance has often focused on the physical testing and evaluation of raw materials and finished products. From a safety perspective, it is imperative that the …

NDT

X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Frequently Asked Questions

Ted Shields Sr.

When we talk to customers who are interested in learning more about XRF, there are some questions that we answer all the time. Check out some of the most frequently …

Vision & Sensors

Automation for Beginners and Experts

Darryl Seland

At its simplest, automation means to make something automatic. In manufacturing, whether describing a single device or an entire system or process, automation refers to performing one or many tasks …

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Vision & Sensors

The Details of Vision Guided Robotics

Keith Vozel

The renewed interest for vision guided robotics (VGR) for the manufacturing of parts and packaging of goods is much in part to the number of advances in sophisticated technologies over …

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Vision & Sensors

The Need for 3D Imaging Performance Standards for Robotic Assembly

Kamel S. Saidi

Manufacturing often involves the fabrication of products that are made up of multiple smaller parts or components. Assembling these parts into finished products can be complex and labor intensive. …

Partners

Measurement

Fix It or Fling It?

Hill Cox

As a supplier of all types of measuring instruments, we are regularly asked to quote the cost of repairing some of them. In days gone by, it was a common service offered by many in the industry but modern technology has changed all that while increasing the amount of garbage to the local landfill. Marketing and manufacturing are both to blame.

Management

Managing a Key Asset

Jim L. Smith

With so much focus on customers, companies can lose sight of their most valued asset—their people—and the critical roles they play in the success of their organizations. Organizations are the employees, and customer service and quality are dependent on these skilled, motivated people.

Blogs

Personal Growth

By Jim L. Smith

If anyone is interested in pursuing personal growth, does this necessarily mean they are a selfish person?

Manufacturing & the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Michelle Bangert

Predictability

By Jim L. Smith

Vision & Sensors

How to create an intelligent industrial camera without prior knowledge

Where rule-based machine vision has not been attempted or has reached its limits, there is a high potential for deep learning algorithms to support employees and drive forward automation.

Save Time & Money on Inspection Reporting

Better Inspection Reporting

Michelle Bangert

The aerospace industry wouldn’t function without first article inspection.

Utilizing CMM Data with FAI Reports

Not Maximizing Your CMM Output Data

Even though CMMs are widely used and have become important to the quality operations of many companies, they remain complex and expensive.

First Article Inspection

Embrace your Customers’ 3D Models

Suppliers have been accepting customers’ 2D prints for decades and have become accustomed to using and interpreting these PDF or Tiff drawings for inspection reports.

Quality Magazine

2020 April

Check out the April 2020 edition of Quality: Quality Professional of the Year, color management, understanding the role of load cells, automation and much more!

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