Articles Tagged with ''data collection''

Like a mad scientist turning the experiment on themselves, Renishaw used its own manufacturing operations as the proving ground for its new process control platform, Renishaw Central.

The L.S. Starrett Company has introduced a new line of full-featured Electronic Digital Indicators, an enhanced version of its 2900 series.

Here are six trends that the most efficient labs are adopting in order to achieve a competitive edge.

Today, modern digital gages have underused capabilities that allow for even greater ease of use and accessibility for all users.

Competing on product quality has never been more urgent as rising raw material and component costs continue to squeeze manufacturers’ margins. At the same time, unpredictable supply chains make it increasingly difficult to maintain consistent product quality and cost visibility.

When Donald Engineering sales manager Jim Kortman describes his aluminum extruder client of 28 years, he reaches for a deceptively simple analogy: the Play-Doh Fun Factory. 

Before we dive into the quality issues that arise from manual data entry, let’s review the ways in which data is handled in industrial calibration processes.

Quality managers looking to find real insights from pages upon pages of raw quality data might not be successful. But managers with Statistical Process Control (SPC) software will have a leg up.

Manufacturers must ask a lot of their quality data collection systems. Ideally, these systems should not only capture quality data while a product or service is manufactured, assembled and installed, but they should also aid in pre-production preparation.