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BIC New Zealand Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand), one of a number of BIC Corp. (Milford, CT) subsidiaries around the globe, manufactures about 15 million felt-tip pens each year using a customized automated assembly machine. These pens are then sold throughout New Zealand, Mexico, Chile, Canada and the United States.

Welcome to this inaugural Vision & Sensors special section from Quality Magazine. This has been a project in the planning for quite some time and it is with great pleasure we offer you this first in a regular series of special issues on this fast-growing technology.

The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), now under construction at Lockheed Martin, is being made in an assembly process like a car, drawing parts from many suppliers to feed a mile-long assembly line.

Next-generation, noncontact video extensometers are replacing traditional contacting extensometers in many material tests.

Eddy current-based sensors provide precision displacement measurement.

While not used as much as it was in the past, penetrant testing still has a place in a wide range of industries and applications.

Take another look at an important quality analysis tool.

A lot of data isn't a bad thing anymore.

Nothing exemplifies the world's love affair with airplanes better than the new A380 from Airbus (Toulouse, France), the largest passenger aircraft ever built. With 73 meters in length, a wingspan

Advances in machine accuracy and probing technology make on-machine inspection a powerful process control tool for leaner, faster, more automated part processing.