Quality Control

When not required by the customer, inspection is a likely target for shops seeking to eliminate inefficiencies within the manufacturing process, suggests the Shop Technology column in the June 2015 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine.

Certifications help shops develop consistent quality assurance practices -- and new business.

Advances in software, sensors and connectivity create more choices and greater accessibility for machine monitoring.

The basis of the portable CMM arm is to allow an operator to reach and touch the part to be measured with a hard probe and collect data.

An industrial-grade, wearable computing device.

When cleaning parts, there is general cleaning and then there is precision cleaning. Both types are important in medical device manufacturing, but precision cleaning -- repeatable removal of contaminants to a specified, usually validated standard -- has become more prevalent in part because of increasingly stringent Food and Drug Administration oversight of the manufacturing process, resulting in stricter process QC.

If you're not monitoring the condition of your CNC equipment, you're machining in the dark.

A model-based design and verification method for reducing the time to build complex vehicles and aircraft.

X-ray scanning a part with internal features is useful because it creates 2-D images of those features in a nondestructive manner. Industrial computed-tomography, or industrial CT scanning, which is based on X-ray scanning technology, takes it a step further by providing a complete 3-D view for internal and external analysis.