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Manufacturing Day fell on Oct. 2 this year. Manufacturers opened their doors and showed the public what modern manufacturing looks like, and, hopefully, built some interest in manufacturing careers.
Visitors saw robots, sensors, software, and connected production systems. What…
Adding a control element to any system may seem like an easy path, even a necessary one. Redundancy reassures the stakeholders and the auditors, and it might become a sales pitch for the customers. Removing such elements is, on the other hand, more challenging; it’s an effort that requires…
Most shops accept a gauge the same way. They run a gauge repeatability and reproducibility (gauge R&R) study with 10 parts, three appraisers, and three trials. Get a %GRR under 30. File the report and move on. The AIAG criteria are familiar: Under 10% is generally acceptable, 10%–30% may be…
It’s one of the most dangerous sentences you can hear on a factory floor: “The drawing is updated, and we’re good to go.”
It sounds like the finish line. We fixed it! Nothing else to do here.
I’ve watched this play out countless times in different hardware teams. A part…
Highly reflective metallic surfaces are among the most challenging inspection targets in machine vision. Reflections obscure details; defects often become visible only from certain angles, and the quality of manual visual inspections fluctuates throughout the workday.
The Austrian…
Manufacturing in the U.S. is seeing its fastest growth in more than four years, driven in large part by rising demand for AI infrastructure. That expansion is arriving alongside severe supply shortages and higher input costs.
Manufacturers look to AI to increase capacity and…