So I'm driving down the street the other day, and what do I see? Stenciled in huge letters, taking up most of the back side of the 18-wheeler in front of me, are the words: ISO 9001 certified. I had to look hard to even spot the name of the company -- a local paper supplier -- which was written in much smaller letters on the bottom of the truck's back door.
The ability to achieve breakthrough improvements, meet new standards and consistently maintain high levels of performance depends upon the effectiveness of controls.
Performing predictive maintenance or trouble-shooting diagnostics on production machines that are located in remote or hard-to-access places is now easier, thanks to software that uses the power of the Internet to let engineers view data and perform tests--from anywhere.
Although it is widely known that manufacturers of quality parts re-quire the use of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) to ensure part accuracy, it is not as clearly understood that a calibrated CMM is not the same as a certified CMM.
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