Content by Dirk Dusharme @ Quality Digest
Hexagon and Infiniti Red Bull Racing: More Than Technical PartnersGone is simply partnering for technical expertise. Today’s winning companies share cultural expertise as well.
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 00:00
What happened to the good old show-me-the-money capitalistic down-and-dirty business I grew up with? Where’s the cutthroat competition? What happened to “we’re big, you’re not, we’re doing it our way” partnerships?
Something happened when I was… Fear and Loathing With Onboard DiagnosticsSometimes it feels like somebody’s watching me
Thu, 03/27/2014 - 11:51
For better or worse, we’ve resigned ourselves to the idea that to live in the modern world, we have to give up total privacy. But even as we wring our hands about the loss of privacy—meanwhile searching Google for stories on the latest security… Baldrige Winner Sutter Davis Hospital Pursues Outstanding Patient ExperienceAn interview with Sutter Davis CEO Janet Wagner
Thu, 01/23/2014 - 11:32
This past November, three winners of the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality awards were announced, one in education and two in healthcare. Quality Digest Daily is fortunate that one of the winners, Sutter Davis Hospital (SDH) is practically in… Once More Into the GapLooking at the different faces of the skills shortage in manufacturing
Mon, 10/28/2013 - 13:06
Frequently, Quality Digest Daily has reported that many of our manufacturing readers say there is a lack of skilled talent to fill technical positions. For our audience, this has typically been in the area of metrology, which involves not only… 3D Printing With... PaperIt’s completely recyclable, uses no toxic products, and produces a high-resolution, color model
Thu, 05/16/2013 - 11:13
A lot of us have been following the advancements in 3D printing and have noted the variety of materials that can be used to create objects. The most common of these are plastic, nylon, and metal. One of the key expenses of 3D printing, other than… A Certification in Search of MetrologistsThe Coordinate Metrology Society launches industry-first personnel certification program
Wed, 04/17/2013 - 09:55
The Coordinate Metrology Society’s (CMS) efforts to deliver an industry-recognized certification to the profession of portable 3D metrology is now a reality.
This endeavor began with a vision and a request from industry to leverage the resources… Think It, Print It, Drive It3D-printed car to cross the U.S. on 10 gallons of fuel
Mon, 04/15/2013 - 09:06
Drive from San Francisco to New York in a 3D-printed car using just 10 gallons of biofuel. Not crazy and not science fiction. It’s the 2015 goal for Jim Kor and the team at Winnipeg, Manitoba-based KOR Ecologic. You may have heard about the… Forget Expos; User Conferences Are More ValuableTossing the sales pitch for the brass tacks
Tue, 10/02/2012 - 16:09
Looking for an event to attend where you get up-to-date information on the latest hardware and software? Try attending a user conference of a prospective vendor. You might be pleasantly surprised at how much you learn. Although typically set up for… Measurement Geeks Rule!And at the NCSLI yearly conference, you find out why
Tue, 09/04/2012 - 13:43
“Quality is not free, but it has a pretty darn good ROI.”
So said James Rooney, chair of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and keynote speaker at this year’s National Conference of Standards Laboratories International (NCSLI) conference in… Look Ma, No Targets: Simultaneous Localization and MappingReal-time 3D technique will greatly enhance work flows, large-part alignment, and error reporting
Mon, 07/02/2012 - 11:37
Imagine smart tools or robotic delivery systems that instantaneously know where they are on an ever-changing shop floor, a system that could automatically orient a CAD model of an object on the shop floor to the local coordinate system without the…
