Volume 6, Issue 17 QUALITY HOME | PRODUCT SPOTLIGHTS | COMMUNITIES | CALENDAR | CLASSIFIEDS In this issue of Quality Magazine's UPDATE:  - 2009 Awards of Excellence in Metalforming Announced - ISO/TS

Visual inspection systems have been used in automotive engineering for the last 20 years. However, not until the introduction of in-process solutions did the systems feature the required durability to withstand ambient impacts.

Companies are awakening to the fact that in order to stave off any issues associated with production processes and procedures, systematic, enterprisewide controls must be put in place. Tightly integrated, comprehensive systems work to control document access and revisions across the enterprise from within a single, centralized department.

Specialized software enables a PC and motion controller to interface for a pipe-testing application, precluding the need for a programmable logic controller (PLC).

A provider of five-axis machining services acquires a new coordinate measuring machine (CMM), metrology software and measurement probe, resulting in vast improvements to its inspection process.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal & Marine Geology Program (CMGP) uses a Gigabit Ethernet camera to study the ocean floor off the cost of California.

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