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Zeiss Donates Powerful Primo Star Digital Classroom Microscope to White Plains High School

Equipment helps science teachers offer hands-on laboratories and live demonstrations to supplement traditional lectures.

Collaboration Helps Military Veterans Transition into NDT Careers

Olympus UT equipment supports Warrior To Inspector’s veteran training program.

Smart Vision Lights Awarded ISO 9001:2015 Certification for QMS

Smart Vision Lights (SVL) announced that it has earned ISO 9001:2015 certification for its quality management systems (QMS).

Report: Reshoring Up Despite COVID

Despite COVID, reshoring is up in 2020. Job announcements for 2020 are projected to reach 110,000, which will bring the total since 2010 to…

Self-Accountability

It has been argued that in recent years personal accountability seems to be diminishing.

U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 26.4% in September

Orders totaled $373.7 million, the highest monthly total of the year.

OGP Celebrates the Big 7-5

Optical Gaging Products (OGP), a division of Quality Vision International Inc (QVI®), is celebrating its milestone 75-year anniversary as a…

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Vision & Sensors

Developments in Machine Vision Camera Interfaces

Mark Williamson

The choice of camera data interface is a vital consideration both in traditional PC-based machine vision systems and in the increasingly important area of embedded vision. …

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Vision & Sensors

Lighting Basics for Machine Vision

Paul Powers

Much of the latest news surrounding machine vision is about machine learning and the innovations regarding algorithms. But those algorithms need data to perform correctly. The data in this case …

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Test & Inspection

Additive Drives the Adoption of CT for Nondestructive Internal Inspection

Meghan Meinert

Many components and assemblies have internal features that are difficult to inspect, none more so than additively manufactured parts. Conventional quality control requires samples to be sectioned and subsequently scrapped. …

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Vision & Sensors

Ruggedization of Machine Vision Lenses

Jaylond Cotten-Martin

Imaging lenses are critically important components for systems deployed in all types of environments such as factory automation, robotics, and industrial inspection. …

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Vision & Sensors

Three Cornerstones of Smart 3D Machine Vision

Jordan Paul

Many of today’s industrial software applications are designed to run natively on the Windows platform. Accessing and controlling external hardware devices with a Windows application is usually achieved by using …

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Vision & Sensors

How Artificial Intelligence overcomes major obstacles standing in the way of automating complex visual inspection tasks

Felix Klebe Fernando Callejon

Due to rising labor costs and a shortage of skilled inspectors, today’s manufacturers are facing intense pressure to automate processes that rely on the senses of experienced human workers. …

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Vision & Sensors

Machine Vision Trends for Today’s Industrial Age

Amanda Nelson

While early adopters found more promise than productivity, Industry 4.0 has finally come of age. …

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LMI Gocator 3520 Smart 3D Snapshot Sensor

The Gocator® 3520 extends the field of view of its 5-megapixel smart snapshot sensor series for metrology-grade inline measurement and inspection with increased scan coverage.

Improve Quality & Customer Satisfaction

Six Factors to Consider When Choosing an SPC Intelligence Platform

Darryl Seland

In today’s increasingly connected and intelligent production environment, manufacturers are inundated with data. It can be challenging to see quality data throughout an entire enterprise, which makes it more difficult to lower costs, advance product quality, decrease waste, maintain compliance and boost profitability.

Blogs

Self-Accountability

By Jim L. Smith

It has been argued that in recent years personal accountability seems to be diminishing.

Education vs Learning

By Jim L. Smith

Advantages of Wait Time

By Jim L. Smith

First Article Inspection

Are you making this major FAI mistake?

Darryl Seland

To save time and money throughout the course of product development, quality professionals rely on first article inspection (FAI), which is a popular way to examine and test products in the early stages of production.

Management

Recognition Power: Recognizing Efforts Supports Excellence

Jim L. Smith

Throughout my career I have seen the power in recognizing people’s efforts. Additionally, numerous studies have shown that when people feel appreciated and get recognized, they are more engaged, motivated, and productive.

Management

Celebrate Success: World Quality Month is for You

After learning something truly exciting, there is something extraordinarily satisfying in sharing it with someone else. Children do this all the time. They take the new information directly to an adult—usually a parent or caregiver—and the words pour out of their mouths, torrents of energy and pride.

Measurement

White Paper: Introduction to Surface Roughness Measurement

Olympus’ high-quality optics help eliminate many outliers before they occur. The quality of the resulting measurement is evident in multiscale analysis down to the finest scales.

Quality Magazine

2020 November

Check out the November 2020 edition of Quality: Training in the age of COVID-19, SPC intangibles, future-proof your quality system, gages for screw thread inserts and much more!

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