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Sabine Terrasi
Wire bonding is a key process in semiconductor production. Extremely fine wires with diameters of 15 to 75 µm are used to create tiny electrical connections between a semiconductor chip and other components. The distances between the bond wires are often less than 100 µm. Any deviation, however…
Paul Sagar
In 1988, a small company began developing and supplying electronic instruments that automatically compensate for temperature-induced errors in industrial gages that are used to make precision dimensional measurements. Its products are now in use worldwide, improving factories and workshops that…
NIST
The world keeps time with the ticks of atomic clocks, but a new type of clock under development—a nuclear clock—could revolutionize how we measure time and probe fundamental physics.
An international research team led by scientists at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), a…
NIST
It’s not easy making green.
Scientists have made small red and blue lasers for years, but other colors have been a challenge. Now, researchers have filled an important technology gap by creating orange, yellow, and green lasers tiny enough to fit on a chip. Low-noise, compact lasers in this…
George Schuetz
Electronic temperature compensation in gaging has become a valuable tool in improving the accuracy and gage repeatability and reproducibility (GR&R) of gages in harsh manufacturing environments.
The need for temperature compensation comes into play when the expected errors from temperature…
Adam Zewe
Identifying one faulty turbine in a wind farm, which can involve looking at hundreds of signals and millions of data points, is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
Engineers often streamline this complex problem using deep-learning models that can detect anomalies in measurements taken…
George Schuetz
We ended the previous gaging article talking about the 10:1 rule as it applies to the performance of a gage.
The rule says that the gage should perform to a level better than 10% of the tolerance. Although this rule has mostly been replaced by the more scientific and standardized GR&R…
Sabine Terrasi
Up-to-date and accurate maps of the waterways are a prerequisite for safe and efficient shipping in Germany. Authorities such as the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, but also private harbor operators, are obliged to provide these maps in an up-to-date form at all times. Primarily, the…
Oliver Hagenlocher
MR Components, of Grigno, Italy, has significantly increased its production capacity and simultaneously improved quality by introducing intelligent automation with EMAG CNC machines.
The company, which specializes in the production of parts for differential and planetary gears, now produces around…
Automated Precision Inc.
In the highly competitive automotive industry, quality control is paramount to ensuring the reliability, safety, and performance of vehicles. Metrology, the science of measurement, plays a crucial role in achieving these high standards at every stage of automotive production and testing. Let’s…
Creaform
The WAB-GROUP is where innovation and tradition come together to provide customers with world-class solutions in the areas of wet grinding technology, three-dimensional-shaking mixing technology, and flow chemistry.
Present in 42 countries worldwide and anchored since 2008 in its state-of-the-art…
Megan King
In 2018, the world agreed to redefine the kilogram. Instead of being pegged to the mass of a physical object in a vault in France, the kilogram is now defined by a few fundamental constants in nature.
This means researchers no longer have to worry about a physical object that can decay or change…
George Schuetz
In this job, I get a lot of questions. In fact, I did some figuring the other day and estimated, conservatively, that we have probably answered at least 50,000 gauging questions over the past 35 years or so.
Some of these questions have been challenging. They’ve pushed me to learn more about my…
Megan Wallin-Kerth
As the July 22–25, 2024, Coordinate Metrology Society Conference (CMSC) rapidly approaches, quality professionals anticipate opportunities to explore and showcase various products and ideas from some of the biggest names and organizations. InnovMetric, Hexagon, Renishaw, Nikon, and many others will…
Artyom Yukhin
Artec 3D has begun working with Handicap International to manufacture custom prosthetic devices for beneficiaries in refugee camps and their host communities in Rwanda.
According to the United Nations, in Rwanda more than 51,000 people need prostheses. Many suffered loss of limbs during the 1994…
Georgia Tech News Center
When people think of greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, what often comes to mind are airplanes and land vehicles like cars or trucks. But as efforts to slow climate change are ramping up, the spotlight is on another form of transport: ships.
The United Nations’ International Maritime…
Creaform
When it comes to aircraft, poorly documented dents can lead to more significant problems, potentially compromising structural integrity or performance. Dents can trap moisture and lead to corrosion. The stress they generate can initiate fatigue cracks. Their effects on the structure can also affect…
Donald J. Wheeler
The four common capability and performance indexes collectively contain all of the summary information about process predictability, process conformity, and process aim that can be expressed numerically. As a result, any additional capability measures that your software may provide can only…
Adam Zewe
Someday, you may want your home robot to carry a load of dirty clothes downstairs and deposit them in the washing machine in the far-left corner of the basement. The robot will need to combine your instructions with its visual observations to determine what it should do to complete this task.
For…
NIST
Bringing its cutting-edge invention to the larger world for the first time, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered a portable and super accurate tabletop instrument for measuring mass to the U.S. Army. This could revolutionize critical measurements in a variety of…
Silke von Gemmingen
Indexable inserts are interchangeable cutting tools that are indispensable in various industrial applications, especially in metalworking. They are used as cutting material carriers for machining metals, plastics, or wood.
Manufacturing indexable inserts requires high-precision production…
Pirmin Bitzi
Data are at the core of smart manufacturing; they’re pivotal to innovation and agility. At the same time, the vast amounts of new data captured daily in manufacturing present substantial challenges—no more so than within quality control, where this significant data load can lead to data analysis…
Adam Zewe
Imagine a portable 3D printer you could hold in the palm of your hand. This tiny device could enable you to rapidly create customized, low-cost objects on the go, like a fastener to repair a wobbly bicycle wheel or a component for a critical medical operation.
Researchers from MIT and the…
AMETEK
Endurance racing is one of the oldest and toughest pastimes in motorsports. It is a true test of performance. Not only is a driver’s stamina on display, but vehicle durability as well.
Based in Indianapolis, Wayne Taylor Racing With Andretti (WTRAndretti) is a world-renowned global motorsports…
Masateru Ito
For organizations responsible for aircraft operation and maintenance, inspecting critical aircraft-engine components is a routine preventive maintenance procedure. These procedures help to ensure the proper operation of the aircraft for flight safety. There are many components inside the engine…
