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(Aicon: Braunschweig, Germany) -- The new benchmark in tube and wire measurement wins gold. An expert jury at the CONTROL-TECH in Poland has awarded TubeInspect P8, Aicon’s optical 3D tube and wire measurement system, with the Gold Medal of the Kielce Trade Fairs. It represents a great success…
(InnovMetric: Quebec, QC, Canada) -- Following four years of successful cooperation, InnovMetric Software Inc. and its Brazilian business partner, Danilo Ribeiro of PWB Suporte Técnico Ltda., have launched PolyWorks Brasil to market the PolyWorks Universal 3D Metrology software platform to Brazil’…
(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA) -- Verisurf Software Inc. is pleased to announce Verisurf X8 with many new enhancements that make stationary coordinate measuring machines (CMMs), portable CMMs, and 3D scanners more productive for automated inspection, guided assembly, and reverse engineering. Built on a…
(Virtek: Waterloo, Canada) -- Virtek Vision International, a market leader in the field of laser-based manufacturing technologies, has announced a signed distribution agreement with Baykal Machinery for the Virtek LaserQC inspection system.
Baykal is a leading manufacturer and global supplier of…
Most manufacturing facilities have to manage the seemingly never-ending cycle of having to keep costs down while increasing production levels and maintaining high quality standards. Often, this ongoing struggle includes a reduction in staff and resources, and a lower-than-ever budget for…
The reconstruction of scenes from multiple images or video streams has become an essential component in many modern applications. Many fields, including robotics, surveillance, and virtual reality, employ systems to reconstruct a 3D representation of an environment in order to accomplish specific…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Leading metrology solutions developer Hexagon Metrology has unveiled the Leica Absolute Tracker AT960, a walk-around coordinate measuring machine that fits in a single flight case. The latest model in the Leica Absolute Tracker range, the AT960 answers…
Here’s a shocking finding from the most recent “ASQ Global State of Quality” report: The higher you rise in your organization’s leadership, the less often you receive reports about quality metrics. Only 2 percent of senior executives get daily quality reports, compared to 33 percent of frontline…
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he modern supply chain is becoming more complex, and many different levels of skill and oversight are found among suppliers and purchasing companies. Some suppliers do an excellent job of implementing lessons learned and maintaining a high level of quality, production, and safety. Other…
You might think that the medical and engineering professions would operate quite differently from each other. Yet, as we will see, not only are they similar, but there is a lot that the engineering profession could and should borrow from the medical profession.
So what is it that they have in…
(SME: Dearborn, MI) -- SME, an organization dedicated to supporting manufacturing through training, events, media, and membership, has announced #MFGis, an awareness campaign to help students, educators, professionals, and companies tell their stories of “what manufacturing is” through…
Publically announced breaches of secured information are so common today that they almost seem routine. Last year, in the United States alone, financial companies like JPMorgan Chase and retailers such as Target and Home Depot were victimized by information system hackers that allegedly gained…
(LDI: Minneapolis) -- Laser Design Inc. (LDI), developer and provider of 3-D scanning systems and dimensional inspection services, now offers Europe’s leading anti-reflection coating for laser scanning, Helling 3D Scan Spray.
Reflectivity is detrimental to 3D data acquisition, so it is often…
Managing risk in a quality management system (QMS) is considered a clear maturity indicator and a way to determine that an organization has shifted from a reactive and less controlled state toward an agile, proactive and anticipatory approach to quality management.
In this post we are going to…
Responding to FDA 483 observations was my focus in part 1 of this series. Responses lead to commitments, and commitments lead to changes that are intended to prevent recurrence of the underlying problem that led to the observation.
Here, I’ll share my views on getting the work done to fulfill…
(Siemens PLM: Plano, TX) -- Siemens has added new applications to its Sinumerik Integrate for Production software suite for networking machine tools with production-level IT systems. The new release now includes Manage MyMaintenance (MMM), an effective maintenance-tasks management system, and…
Imagine: You find someone you’d like to connect with on LinkedIn. You email the person to ask if you can pick his or her brain. A coffee date is set. You’ve just become part of the phenomenon that’s taking over industrial sales: zombie coffee. This no-frills networking strategy, fueled by a lethal…
Story update 11/10/2014: We clarified the meaning of the 16% response in the Bamboo HR report.
Mark was upbeat at the end of his first day at his new job as a programmer for a small tech company. He was shown around, introduced to his co-workers, and given a desk and a computer. He had spent most…
ISO 9001 certification is like a driver’s license test. To prepare for a driver’s license test, a new, unlicensed driver requests a booklet from the state. This booklet explains the laws and conventions of driving in that state. From ISO, a new, unregistered company receives two booklets…
After a flurry of activity, it’s been relatively quiet lately on the FDA warning-letter front, though three device makers did get some bad news in recent weeks.
FDA’s Philadelphia office hit Pittsburgh-based Zoll Manufacturing Corporation, a maker of Class III medical device life vests, with a…
(Hexagon: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology, Inc. has announced its customer CRCoachworks (CRC, Lakewood, WA) will be featured using a ROMER arm this season on the TV show “Corvette Nation.” Airing on Discovery’s Velocity channel, this weekly series is dedicated to America’s sports car—the…
Do you ever feel overwhelmed as a manager? Being overburdened by the responsibility of having to figure out what the people on your team want and need from you is a familiar feeling shared among leaders. Fortunately, there is a “best practice” for obtaining just the kind of information needed to…
Some things are just meant to be, apparently. Sept. 23, 2014, marked an interesting waypoint in the career of someone concerned about standards of measurement, because on that day, I became a standard reference human.
Having started working for the (then) National Bureau of Standards (NBS) almost…
The following tips have been compiled from interviews with representatives of Baldrige Award-winning organizations during the 2014 Quest for Excellence conference.
How to get started using the Baldrige framework
Communicate. Make sure you have the support of senior leadership and employees.…
(ISO: Geneva) -- From responding to major disease outbreaks to everyday medical treatment, having the right information in the right place at the right time is vital for any national health system. Now health organizations around the globe can improve the management of their information—and in…
