Test & Inspection - Articles - Page 62

Proficiency Testing

Accrediting agencies require their labs to participate each year.

January 3, 2017

The term ‘proficiency testing’ is one that every accredited calibration laboratory is quite familiar with. In basic terms it refers to a method of evaluating how well a laboratory is doing a particular calibration with respect to its claimed measurement uncertainty and how it fares with other participants.

Controlling the Dimensional Quality of the World’s Largest Tokamak

Meet the prototype for future energy production across the globe.

Dimensional Control Systems

January 3, 2017

It’s not every day that a company specializing in software solutions for tolerance analysis gets to supply an international project to build the world’s largest tokamak.

Boldly Touting Multisensor Value

The value proposition for choosing a multisensor measurement system, compared to a single sensor machine, is productivity and cost savings.

Mark Thomas

January 3, 2017

As the new year brings new budgets, the reality of muted economic growth for 2017 becomes clear when the subject of corporate spending arises.

Putting Surface Inspection in the Hands of the Machine Tool Operator

Manufacturers need tools for operators that meet test requirements and are simple to use.

George Schuetz

January 3, 2017

As part tolerances tighten, both form and surface finish have a bigger influence on the size and function of the product. And with pressures on manufacturing to be more productive, it is no longer viable for checks of surface or form to be performed on a measuring system in a quality room.

NDT HEADLINE

Exova Acquires Insight NDT

December 22, 2016

Exova Group plc, the global testing, calibration and advisory services provider, acquired Insight NDT Limited (Insight), a South Yorkshire-based non-destructive testing (NDT) and radiographic inspection business.

INDUSTRY HEADLINE

Zeiss Opens Car Body and Automated Inspection Center in Michigan

December 2, 2016

Zeiss Industrial Metrology opens a new facility in Wixom, MI, dedicated to the latest developments for the process chain in car body metrology and automated inspection.

Getting Answers on Thread Measurement

We can't have too much information in dimensional metrology.

Hill Cox

December 1, 2016

If you’re having problems with thread measurements but the answers you’re getting from your usual sources aren’t solving them, it’s natural that you would try and get some unbiased advice from a specialist.

3D printing is rewriting the manufacturing rulebook

Andrew Ramsey Herminso Villarraga-Gomez

December 1, 2016

Interest in 3D printing is remaking the manufacturing landscape. Consulting firm IDC says global spending on 3D printers, both desktop and industrial, hit about $11 billion in 2015 and is forecast to reach $27 billion by 2019.

V&S HEADLINE