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NEXTSENSE specializes in solutions for the automotive, railway, steel and aerospace industries.

Construction of the new building marks the last phase of a five-year, 37,000 square-foot expansion of the company’s global engineering and manufacturing headquarters.

The first step to process improvement is machine performance measurement and diagnosis. However, it’s a step that many OEMs and service providers—even quality professionals—fail to approach with as much rigor as other steps, like process setting and in-process control. 

The biggest trend we are seeing in the manufacturing industry is automating the inspection process using robots. According to a projection from ABI Research, the number of industrial robots sold in the U.S. will jump nearly 300% in less than a decade. 

For manufacturers in the 21st century, ensuring the products they produce are of the right quality is paramount. 

Applications for industrial X-Ray CT—a 3D measurement technique that enables nondestructive inspection of an object’s internal and external features—are growing beyond the confines of the nondestructive testing (NDT) space that CT has occupied since the mid-1990s.