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Simulation Lifecycle Management cuts qualification process for Abaqus FEA crash dummy models from weeks to days.

Residents of Erie County, New York, faced a painful choice: raise taxes, or slash services. Then the new county executive offered a third option: use Lean Six Sigma to cut costs.

During the month of June 2010, PRI invited Nadcap stakeholders to respond to a survey to evaluate the perceived impact of the program on Nadcap accredited suppliers.

When an audit concludes, the audit team presents its findings to the auditees at a clos-ing meeting. At the closing, or before the audit team departs the facility, it is typical for the auditee’s representative to receive findings in handwritten format.

Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are used in practically every industry that requires precise dimensional inspection of manufactured parts. In today’s competitive environment, manufacturers demand CMMs that are accurate, reliable, fast, economical, and provide maximum flexibility with respect to operating environment.

The autonomous vehicle-a vehicle capable of driving itself without any human intervention-is quickly becoming a reality.

Replacing human inspection with machine vision can go far in automating factory operation, but implementers need to carefully match machine vision options with application requirements.

In this case study, a jewelery manufacturer uses an all-in-one vision appliance to measure earring backs.

To program vision equipment offline, all you need is software that can import the CAD model of the part and interact with it in a virtual environment for vision and multisensor system programming.