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Tensile Testing Supports Auto Lightweighting

February 1, 2016

As auto makers strive to meet increasingly stringent requirements for weight reduction with a range of high strength lightweight materials, many manufacturers are moving to a mixed materials environment.

Pre- and Post-Process Gaging: The Bigger Picture

Frank Powell

February 1, 2016

You can’t monitor, optimize, and control your process unless you know what’s happening every step of the way.

Reducing Scrap and Improving Quality

Take a look at the results of Quality’s 16th Annual Spending Survey.

Michelle Bangert

January 1, 2016

The 16th Annual Spending Survey provides a glimpse into plants across the United States as quality professionals go about their 2016 spending.

Q&A: Keeping Track of Gage Management Software

Devin Ellis, Director of Client Solutions and Development at CyberMetrics, gives us the 411.

Leah Pickett

January 1, 2016

With so many different calibration management software products on the market, choosing the best one for your business could prove challenging.

The Benefits of a Fully Motorized Microscope System

Advantages include seamless calibration, increase in throughput and improved ergonomics.

Robert Bellinger

January 1, 2016

What are the benefits of using a fully motorized microscope system? It’s an excellent question, and one that can be fully answered when looking at some motorized scope options.

Depth Measurement

Is the hole too deep, not deep enough or just right?

Mike Oddy

January 1, 2016

The measurement of a drilled, reamed or formed hole depth may be inspected in a wide variety of methods.

Laser Calibration at the Speed of Light—Comparatively Speaking

High-speed data capture technique cuts calibration time 85 to 90%, minimizing downtime on key assets

January 1, 2016

The word “laser” implies “light speed” for the casual listener, but witnessing a bi-directional laser calibration run on just one linear axis of a CNC mill conjures up a completely different image of something less than light speed.

Air Gaging

Air gages provide reliable, repeatable measurements.

Edward McMenamin

January 1, 2016

Air gages have been reliable tools for more than 70 years, providing accurate and repeatable measures of diameter, depth, parallelism, taper and flatness.

Management Trends

ISO 9001:2015 update brings quality management to the boardroom.

Edward McMenamin

December 2, 2015

Quality management professionals focused their eyes on the big update to ISO 9001 in September, and changes in the standard will require top leadership to do the same moving into the new year and beyond.