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Federal Cartridge Co. (Anoka, MN) has been providing hunters and shooters with high-quality rimfire, centerfire and shotshell ammunition since 1922. Federal Cartridge, part of ammunition manufacturer ATK Ammunition Systems Group,

The latest ESS process saves time and increases reliability.

The enterprise quality management system of yesteryear will evolve into the enterprise integrated management system of the future.

Technology streamlines the mining of data for quality control.

How does shipping a product to a friend vs. a stranger affect your decisions on quality?

Japan is having a meltdown about quality "problems." The New York Times reported that in the wake of recent, large-scale recalls of defective products made by Toyota and Sony, Japanese

The only way to determine if potential employees have what you need is to test them.

Until recently, PC systems were predominantly used for machine vision applications, but now intelligent cameras are used in increasing numbers.

Over the years, machine vision has become an important tool for quality analysis. As a technology, it is well-suited for on-line improvement of the manufacturing process. Yet machine vision is not as ubiquitous on the plant floor as might be imagined.

While cost has gone down, machine vision performance has gone up, so says Marcel Singleton, founder and director of business development, The Value Engineering Alliance (Cambridge, MA). “If it can be done by machine vision, it can be done faster and better,” Singleton says.