Goodyear Tire Co. Pumps Up its Supplier Quality Process

Goodyear relies on the service of Global Supplier Quality Assurance—a quality management service provided by Electronic Media Networked Services—to maintain its raw material quality improvement program. After experiencing success at 80 of its manufacturing facilities, Goodyear has renewed its five-year contract with EMNS to keep using GSQA.

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Laser Scanner Used to Help Design Programmable Vehicle Models

Prefix Corp., an engineering company located in Rochester Hills, Michigan, develops fully configurable vehicle interior design and prototype bucks called programmable vehicle models. In the past, Prefix used a digitizer arm to collect measurements that were needed to match the PVM to competitive vehicles used as a benchmark for consumer studies. This process proved to be time-consuming because the device captures points one at a time and the operator must manually move the steering system to track each point to be measured.

The company needed a more advanced measurement capability that would make it possible to collect more data points in less time, notes Kurt Zeile, engineering manager for Prefix. Collecting accurate measurements from vehicles that are used to configure the PVM is a critical aspect. Zeile looked at a number of different alternatives and selected the ModelMaker W70 from NVision.

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