Articles Tagged with ''metrology''

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Redefine Audit Strategy

Organizations Have Been Forced to Redefine Their Quality Audit Strategies.
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Jim L. Smith
June 8, 2021
Organizations have been forced to redefine their quality audit strategies to ensure compliance and render support to their supply base. Over the years, I have been involved with championing three categories of audits: on-site, hybrid and remote audits. 


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How to Choose the Best Shaft Measurement Tool for your Specific Application

There are Three Primary Options Available Today for Shaft Measurement: Optical, Tactile, and a Combination System
Patrick Nugent
June 7, 2021
There are three primary options available today for shaft measurement: optical, tactile, and a combination system. The optical systems have become common over the past few decades because of their flexibility and speed. So how do you choose the best option for your specific application?
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NDT | Training

Remote Visual Inspection an Important Part of the NDT Toolbox

Remote Visual Inspection has Provided Key Inspection Data While Maintaining Safety for its Operators.
Gregory James Weaver
June 7, 2021
Remote visual inspection (RVI) is a nondestructive testing (NDT) technique used for the visual inspection of an object where the person performing the inspection operates a piece of equipment from a distance. Most of the inspection applications used for quality purposes are carried out using three main types of equipment:  borescopes, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and crawler robots. Find out more about their uses and advantages.
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NDT | Back 2 Basics

The Basics of Digital X-Ray Inspection

Conventional Radiography Will Continue to Have a Pace in NDT, but Digital Radiography is the Future
George Hopman
June 7, 2021
Digital radiography is the future. Read about the most common modalities, computed radiography (CR) and digital detector array (DDA) radiography, that are replacing traditional film-based inspections.
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Speaking of Quality | Charles W. (Wes) Shelton

Measurement System Analysis More Than a Line on a PPAP Submission

June 1, 2021
For those of us in the manufacturing world, measurements on products and processes are all important to ensure the products will meet customer requirements, perform correctly, safely, and for a reasonable lifespan. We place our faith in the measurements to accept or reject product—or to adjust the manufacturing process. But are the measurements correct—and how would we know?
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Utilizing a 3D inspection method provides vital information on the bead such as volume and location on part, it also saves productivity of the operators’ time.
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Quality and Process Control for the Dispensing Process

For Many Applications, Good Robot Programming is an Art.
Zhenhua Huang
May 18, 2021
Manufacturing industries have been striving for years for a robust quality control solution which can reliably sort out bad parts of the dispensing process without causing much production downtime. What the industry craves is a robust 3D solution that provides a 360° view of the bead regardless of the dispensing direction.
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Other Dimensions | Hill Cox

Plain Plug Gage Calibration

Nothing could be simpler than calibrating the lowly plain plug gage - at least at first glance
Hill Cox
May 7, 2021

Following the path of a cheap and cheerful ‘how to do it’ format of the last two columns, I continue with something easy – or is it?


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Low-Code to No-Code: A Software Development Revolution

When software can almost write itself, then it's future proof.
Michael Schwartz
May 5, 2021

Over the past 50 years, computer programming languages have made several significant advancements all focused on making a computer easier to use in a more human-readable format. If you wanted to learn programming in the early days you would have had to learn Assembly Language, a set of binary machine operation codes that instructed the microprocessor how to perform each step. 


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Other Dimensions | Hill Cox

Thread Ring Gage Calibration

The basic advantage of the solid thread ring is that it does not have a size adjustment that can be changed.
Hill Cox
April 8, 2021

In my last column I listed some basic equipment requirements for the calibration of thread plug gages so I thought it would be helpful to give mating gages the same treatment. 


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