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Machine downtime can be expensive. It eats up profits, repair costs, and time that could otherwise be devoted to labor. Organizations can avoid this by proactively observing the condition and performance of their equipment, enabling them to predict and prevent machine failures. 

Manufacturers often gather quality data to learn how to boost operational efficiency and enhance product quality. But, accessing and analyzing that data isn’t always straightforward. 

In all types of industries, machine learning (ML) tools are finding the needle in the haystack of data, augmenting quality and safety professionals with a new kind of intelligence that can unlock hidden data patterns that are impossible for the human mind or eye to absorb.

Total quality management is a way to describe a business environment where employees constantly improve their performance and are committed to maintaining high standards.

Laser scanning is quickly becoming more and more commonplace among manufacturers, regardless of industry. In recent years, laser scanning hardware and software have improved considerably, resulting in a streamlined system that can capture vast detail rapidly.

It’s difficult to find a business or industry that isn’t driven by software applications. From phones and laptops to manufacturing systems to validated applications for regulated industries, software drives many of our business processes. 

With robot vision guidance systems, both 2D and 3D, flexible material handling is made possible for industrial production and warehousing.

Dawn Brusseau, product marketing manager, Plex Systems Inc., says ERP software “provides a single source of truth for an organization” by keeping every member of an organization aware of current operations and creating traceability and a monitoring process.

Before we dive into the quality issues that arise from manual data entry, let’s review the ways in which data is handled in industrial calibration processes.