Quality 101 - Articles - Page 13

The Growing Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Industry leaders battle an outdated perception of manufacturing work.

September 1, 2015

Army Trail Road, in Chicago’s western suburbs, is dotted with metal fabrication plants — production facilities offering high-tech manufacturing jobs at living wages.

3-D Measurement: An Essential Time-Saving Tool for Industry

Let’s review a few 3-D measurement basics.

Steve Kersen

September 1, 2015

The science and technology of 3-D measurement has evolved dramatically in recent decades.

Shaft Measurement 101

Learn more about high productivity, high precision shaft measuring.

Brad Ludwick

July 2, 2015

Shaft-type parts can be found in just about every industry, from screws, medical needles, engines, and injectors, to aerospace and power sports. Shafts help the world go.

Total Surface Visualization for Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)

Zhenhua Huang

June 1, 2015

In mass-production industries, it has been realized that Product Design (PD) departments and Manufacturing Engineering (ME) departments under the same organization show quite different interests in the same product line.

Form 101

Size matters, but being in shape often matters more.

Patrick Nugent

May 1, 2015

While John Goodman and Arnold Schwarzenegger are both 6’2”, few would argue that they have similar body shapes. What this says, simply, is that measuring size does not necessarily say anything about shape.

In-Process Gaging 101

The in-process gage controls size so you don’t produce scrap.

Frank Powell

April 1, 2015

There was a time, not so long ago, when everyone knew that “in-process” gaging meant installing a jump-on gage on a grinder to tell the control when the workpiece was at size.

Inspection of 60 Degrees Working Thread Plug Gages

Mike Oddy

March 2, 2015

Working thread plug gages are the fixed limit functional gages used to inspect product threads on a pass/fail basis.

Measurement Techniques in Colorimetry

In the last decade, significant advances have been made in the development and production of color measurement systems.

Ken Butts

February 2, 2015

In colorimetric applications, color is measured objectively; therefore, visual color perception should be simulated as precisely as possible with the color measurement systems used.