David Forward, Woodward’s vice president of quality, fuel systems and controls, describes the aerospace company’s continuous improvement activities, the True North quality philosophy, and why they try to minimize inspection at their new Rock Cut campus in Loves Park, IL.

Companies using modular inspection fixturing are no longer running at risk and the battle at first article inspection has been resolved. Modular inspection fixturing is changing the game for metrology labs everywhere. Listen in on this episode of Delivering Perfect Parts Faster! A manufacturing podcast series directly from inside the walls of manufacturing laboratory Phillips Precision, Inc. located in Boylston, MA. The birthplace of industry changing innovations; Mitee-Bite® Pitbull® Clamp, Inspection Arsenal®, Laser Arsenal® and the M5 Edge Finder™.

Speaker Info:

Glen James – Aerospace Machinist/Manufacturers Rep

Travis Smith – Quality Engineer & Programmer

Allan DeLisle – Host/Producer

Company website - https://phillips-precision.com/

Learn how AI technology is able to utilize small data sets to help companies quickly capture a wide variety of product anomalies, and dynamically update defect books for real-time training. Today’s AI solutions are maximizing efficiency, minimizing product defects, and eliminating wasted inventory for companies worldwide.

Speaker info: Dr. Dongyan Wang, VP AI Transformation at Landing AI, a company founded by Andrew Ng to empower companies with artificial intelligence. Prior to Landing AI, Dr. Wang served as senior executive for multiple Fortune Global 500 enterprises such as Midea Group, NetApp, and Cisco, leveraging artificial intelligence, data science and blockchain technologies to lead strategic enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. He has also served as the COO of Grand Intelligence, a technology consulting company, and Chief AI Officer of a Blockchain + AI startup. Dr. Wang holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He holds more than 10 granted US granted US patents, 10+ international patents, and 30+ pending patents.

Without a doubt, manufacturing in the United States is growing at record speeds, while companies struggle to refill an aging workforce. Continuous process improvement and implementing modern technology is imperative for machine shops to stay alive. However, improving the inspection process with dedicated, modular, quick swap fixturing, bridges the skills gap and perfect parts get delivered faster! Listen in, as we discuss what going modular in the inspection lab can do for you.

Speaker Info:

Steve Phillips – President & Inventor

Cathy Phillips – Co-Owner & Business Manager

Victor Rinaldi – Lead Engineer

Allan DeLisle – Technical Sales Coordinator

https://phillips-precision.com/

Phillips Precision is a “manufacturing laboratory” of bottleneck breaking solutions. Designing and manufacturing standard and custom, quick-swap, modular fixturing for quality inspection. Listen to our partners and customers to learn about their success with modular inspection.

Speakers: Michael Di Marino – Linda Tool, Michael O’Leary – LF O’Leary Co, Jon O’Leary – LF O’Leary Co, Ken Gredick – Triangle Manufacturing, Scott Ferrecchia – Lincoln Tool, Matt Menard – Summit Manufacturing Systems, Jeff Petersen – zCat, LLC, Abra Seng – Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence, Mike Schlagel – Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions, Allan DeLisle – Phillips Precision, Inc.

Quality spoke with P.J. Gruetzmacher, president and CEO of LAI International, at the IMTS 2018, to learn how his company implemented smart manufacturing projects. Here he explains how they did it and offers his advice on how to get started today.

Check out the Day Three recap here!

Kristian Hulgard, general manager - Americas at OnRobot, discusses OnRobot’s contribution to quality inspection.