Items Tagged with 'engineer'

With clear data tools, operators can leverage insights to improve daily operations and enhance stability.

Quality engineers and development teams need to identify root causes and improve efficiency. Design of Experiments (DOE) enables them to test multiple factors at once, allowing for quicker identification of optimal process settings.

The medical device industry is evolving with AI and automation affecting production and quality management. Quality engineers are moving towards systems thinking and proactive decision-making, as AI becomes integral to production, presenting challenges and opportunities for innovation while ensuring safety.

Quality engineers help manufacturing teams identify and resolve production issues through data analysis. They use statistical tools to uncover root causes and apply principles from methodologies like Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing.

As an alternative to CMMs, production engineers have the option of deploying versatile, noncontact optical inspection systems that allow for the implementation of first-article or random part inspection in a fast, nondestructive way.

As baby boomer engineers retire from manufacturing, younger generations aren’t rushing in to fill their shoes. Rapidly changing technology has created greater demand for new skills among shrinking pools of talent, just as reshoring efforts promise to make domestic manufacturing even more robust.
This is why the field’s well-documented skills gap will only widen.