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Joerg Niessing
I’ve noticed that many companies are using the trendy term “digital transformation” without fully understanding what it means. Leveraging digital technology to make organizational processes and offerings more efficient may increase profit margins in the short term. But a true digital…
Mike Micklewright
In October 2014, 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer. In November 2015, footage of the shooting was released and has been viewed all over the world. The footage shows an aggressive attack by a police officer, a supposed person of service to the community, as…
Kevin Meyer
My lean journey of more than 20 years has changed my life in many ways, perhaps none as pervasively as recognition of and disdain for waste.
Along with respect for people, waste awareness has changed my career, leadership style, and personal life. Observing waste has led to a life of increasing…
Ken Miller
I wrote last month about the need to increase security for imaging devices in hospitals. The devices I cited store both personal and medical information about patients and should be subject to standard security measures. Very often they are not.
Last month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (…
Niranjan Deodhar
In the first article of this series, we explored what a process improvement (PI) function would look like if it could apply the principles of reducing waste and variation to its own processes. Here, we build on that analysis to identify the work practices that can drive better, faster, and cheaper…
TÜV SÜD America
The revised ISO 9001:2015 standard was published on Sept. 23, 2015. The release of this standard has many organizations preparing for the transition from ISO 9001:2008, and with transition comes uncertainty: How long will it take? What will it cost my organization? Where do I start? These and…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working with drugmakers in a new way to help the industry adopt scientifically sound, novel technologies to produce quality medicines that are consistently safe and effective—with an eye toward avoiding drug shortages.
When manufacturing problems…
(LPT: Rochester, NH) -- Laser Projection Technologies (LPT) is the leading manufacturer of advanced, 3D, laser templating and measurement projectors in the world. In the interest of giving back to the community, LPT is donating a LPT1 model laser projector to Great Bay Community College. The LPT…
Verisurf Software Inc.
(Verisurf: Anaheim, CA ) -- Verisurf Software Inc. announces the availability of its Verisurf X9 software for 3D measurement. Verisurf X9 is now available for download and includes the addition of Verisurf SOLIDS, a complete 3D solid modeling application, as well as major productivity enhancements…
CMSC
(CMSC: Weatherford, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society, in collaboration with UNC Charlotte, today announced that the second working meeting of the PrecisionPath Consortium for Large-Scale Manufacturing will be held Feb. 24–25, 2016, at the UNC Charlotte Center City building in downtown…
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
(Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence (formerly Hexagon Metrology) announced today that its WLS qFLASH vision measurement system has won a distinguished GOOD DESIGN Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.…
Automated Precision Inc.
(API: Rockville, MD) -- EMS Inc., one of the largest single-source providers of advanced 3D scanning and 3D printing solutions, and Automated Precision Inc. (API), today announced a formal reseller partnership to distribute API’s advanced laser tracker metrology products in the United States.
“API…
Belinda Jones
The industrial metrology sector is an ever-changing landscape for 3D measurement professionals. In the thick of it you will find the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL)—each offering…
InnovMetric
Headquartered in Graz, Austria, the Andritz Group (composed of Andritz Hydro, Andritz Pulp & Paper, Andritz Metals, Andritz Separation, and Andritz Automation) is a leading global supplier of plants, equipment, and services provided to hydropower stations, the pulp and paper industry, the…
FARO
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), announces highly adaptable 3D imager arrays that promise to drive automated industrial manufacturing metrology processes to the next level.
The new FARO Cobalt 3D Imager is equipped with dedicated on-board processors—an industry…
Assembly Guidance Systems Inc.
(Assembly Guidance Systems: Chelmsford, MA) -- Providing fully automated inspection for the first time in high-performance composites manufacturing, Assembly Guidance Systems has shipped its first four LASERVISION units to automated fiber placement (AFP) manufacturer Electroimpact Inc., of…
Rina Molari-Korgel
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this issue of CMSC World. Our 3D metrology community is small compared to the bigger circles of civil engineering, manufacturing engineering, or even quality engineering. An even scarcer sight is a female 3D industrial metrologist, such as me.
It has been and…
Mike Campbell, Ben Hughes, Dan Veal
I n this article, we present a wide angle, frequency scanning interferometer (FSI) system capable of measuring the absolute distance to multiple targets simultaneously.
A spatial light modulator has been integrated into the FSI sensor head, projecting multiple beams towards targets. Absolute…
MOCON
(MOCON: Minneapolis) -- Cleanroom operators will now be able to detect the presence of extremely low levels of microbial cells on surfaces much faster than with traditional solutions. This cleanroom testing capability is a result of a global marketing agreement between MOCON Inc. and Particle…
James Brewton
The healthcare industry is under pressure to improve performance across strategic measures of performance, including delivery cost, operating revenue, employee engagement, patient safety, patient experience, and patient outcomes. A growing number of organizations turn to innovation as a way to…
Mark Whitworth
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal detailing how Boeing is facing up to 24 million dollars in FAA penalties over quality control going back several years across a number of locations shows how even the biggest manufacturers need to close the loop on quality control (QC). Closing the QC…
Fred Schenkelberg
Concurrent engineering is a common approach that pairs developing the product design and its supporting manufacturing processes through the development process. There are several reasons why this is a good idea.
Design engineers may require the creation of new manufacturing processes to achieve…
Davis Balestracci
Marketers are relentless in their efforts to seduce you with fancy tools, acronyms, Japanese terminology—and promises—about their versions of formal improvement structures such as Six Sigma, lean, lean Six Sigma, or the Toyota Production System, each with its own unique toolbox.
In my last column…
Bruce Hamilton
Mel Brooks fans will remember Spaceballs, his jocular jibe at the Star Wars franchise. In pursuit of a rebel ship, evil Lord Dark Helmet (played by Rick Moranis) orders his crew to accelerate their craft beyond the speed of light to “ludicrous speed.”
Although time travel remains within the…
ASQ
(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- An internationally renowned CEO and author on strategic business growth joins an award-winning supply chain practitioner and an experienced innovation expert as keynote speakers at the ASQ Lean and Six Sigma Conference, Feb. 29–March 1, 2016, in Phoenix.
Keynote speakers are…
