Well-executed Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) is a cornerstone of most successful product launches across a wide spectrum of manufacturing companies today.
To stay profitable as a manufacturer, you have to run a tight ship. I’ve been lucky enough to visit with the owners and key people at thousands of our manufacturers all over the world.
Victor Taylor is the vice president of manufacturing at the award-winning Nissan Canton vehicle assembly plant with more than 20 years of engineering and manufacturing expertise.
The objective was to achieve fast, accurate recognition of small characters at a close working distance of roughly nine inches, even in demanding industrial environments.
Central to the system’s success was Theia’s ML610M 2/3″ format varifocal lens, designed for a 1.55 µm pixel size to resolve detail up to 300 line pairs per millimeter contrast.
Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions announced its new Quality Excellence Center in Bloomfield, Connecticut, as part of its continuous expansion of support for U.S. manufacturers.
Fluke Corporation announced CalStudio, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based solution that transforms the way calibration labs operate by centralizing knowledge and procedures into a single, cloud-based platform.
Mastercam, part of the Sandvik Group, announced the completion of a strategic acquisition to strengthen its market presence across the Midwestern part of the United States.
QP is the forward-looking mechanism for building a solid foundation established at the outset of product or service development cycles. This stance is necessary because development projects, despite beginning with clear objectives, typically encounter recurring difficulties as they progress.