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| FEBRUARY 25, 2010 -- This issue sponsored by The Coordinate Metrology Society. |
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NEW HORIZONS As “Old Man Winter” continues to toss his wrath at many of us, it is quite easy to turn our thoughts toward warmer, sunnier places. One of those locations we are all starting to think about is Reno, Nevada, the location for the 2010 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC) hosted by the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS). For those of you unfamiliar with the CMSC, it is the premier weeklong gathering for 3-D portable close-tolerance metrology systems. [full story] |
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FEATURE ARTICLE A joint project of NCMS called Volumetric Accuracy for Large Machine Tools (VALMT), partnering Automated Precision, Boeing, Siemens and Mag Cincinnati, has pioneered an innovative process and established new methodology in volumetric error compensation for large machine tools. [full story]
ON THE CASE Located near Montreal, Canada, the Nova Bus manufacturing team was routinely building many hundreds of complete bus frames per year. Production grew as new models were introduced. The addition of a new diesel electric hybrid design necessitated a re-examination of the quality inspection process to determine strategies for increasing productivity and improving data management and analysis. [full story]
TOP STORY Although he’s not one for clichés, Rus Emerick, process improvement specialist at Schneider-Electric, endorses this one: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” [full story] |
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