When choosing new equipment for your application, not only do you have to decide what you need, you also have the option to choose between renting or buying.
Internal Quality Audits are a requirement of ISO 9001 that rarely bring value to an organization past simply maintaining compliance to the standard. Despite their best efforts, even well-trained internal auditors may not be as effective as they could be.
Model-based Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is powerful digital intelligence that can automate and improve quality across the entire manufacturing enterprise.
Image-processing in the near infrared spectrum is already well established in the photovoltaic industry where it is used in demanding optical inspection procedures that check solar cells for micro-cracks, which can occur during crystal growth and wafer sawing. But this technology has much more to offer and it is gaining in importance in other areas, as this article shows.