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Legendary Baseball Manager Tommy Lasorda once said, “No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you’re going to win one-third of your games.

The operations manager and I were touring the final assembly line at an engine plant in the Midwest.

Electroless Nickel (EN) plating is an advanced plating process, where a nickel-phosphorous alloy is deposited onto a metal or plastic substrate as a result of a controlled chemical reaction.

The manufacturing world is drowning in data. A recent study published by The Economist evaluates the current state of manufacturing data.

Manufacturers in the automotive, refrigeration and air-conditioning industries today rely on helium- and hydrogen-based leak detection systems to assure the overall quality of their heat exchangers.

My journey in dimensional inspection and quality started what seems like a lifetime ago when I ran the one-CMM quality department in my father’s aerospace engineering firm. Thirty years later, my passion for American ingenuity has never been stronger.

In early stages of industrialization, products were simpler, factories were smaller, most processes were manual, and process flows were shorter. Contact with customers was direct between production and customer.

Noted American astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain.

Almost nothing gets done without software. Companies use it to track inventory, processes, and of course, communicate.

During the past 25 years, coordinate measuring machine (CMM) sensor technology has expanded from tactile and scanning systems to now include optical, laser and surface finish sensors, effectively expanding the CMM’s capabilities.