To ensure that the speed of composites fabrication keeps pace with customer demand, the ability to inspect and monitor composite part quality must become an integral part of high-rate part ...

If you’re producing small precision components, quality drives the entire manufacturing process. One of the ways to help ensure the quality of such products is through the use of automated inspection ...

The key to precision manufacturing is right there in the name: precision. Accurate measurement is crucial to reproducibility, and reproducibility is the soul of modern manufacturing. Because of this, ...

The BMW motorcycle plant in Berlin. During my time in Germany for Hannover Fair 2015, I had the opportunity to visit BMW’s motorcycle production facility in Berlin as a guest of Siemens. All BMW ...

The CMM Master is fully portable, so it can be configured for use on the shop floor or in the QA lab. Inspection sequences can be automated, or conducted manually using a joystick. What machine shop ...

Whether you’re producing pet food or pharmaceuticals or packaging any type of consumer goods, you know that quality is paramount. While implementing manual quality control (QC) procedures throughout ...

AXI is an effective technology for finding manufacturing defects in electronics assembly operations. Manufacturers of advanced electronics products know that simultaneously producing a ...

3D surface profilers have been used across many industries since the mid-1970s due to their ability to deliver critical topographic data. The size and type of samples measured using these techniques ...

Manual and automated inspection technologies have their own advantages and limitations. Finished pharma product inspection requires stringent oversight that may be lacking in systems that rely on ...

It’s no secret to anyone involved in aerospace composites that production rates in commercial aircraft assembly lines anchored by advanced layup processes — automated fiber placement (AFP) and ...