Manufacturing
Automated visual inspection: more than just data
Leveraging Big Data collected from automated inspection systems allows automotive manufacturers to track quality, rapidly introduce products, and improve supply chain management.
Category: Features
Industry
Surface finish measurement trends
Mitutoyo specialist Christopher Lee discusses new technologies and approaches to deal with increasing complexity in automotive component surface finish measurement.
Manufacturing
IMTS 2018: Shattering records on the Chicago shoreline
With show visitors up nearly 12% from 2016, this year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show shattered a 20-year old attendance record, and exhibitors say the crowds were ready to spend on new equipment.
Engineering
Seeing through metal: CT scanning for metrology
Cincinnati-based Exact Metrology invests in X-ray computed tomography equipment to collect dimensional measurements of complex 3D workpieces.
Manufacturing
Laser scanning improves hydroforming quality
American Hydroformers’ switch to a Faro scanning system to check tube bends results in a repeatable process that produces less scrap.
Industry
Improving laser seam accuracy, speed
Servo Robot’s laser process control system improves laser welding, laser brazing operations.
Engineering
Cadillac CT6: Laser welding perfect seams
Creating clean, seamless joints between body panels on General Motors’ upcoming luxury flagship requires advanced engineering and new laser-welding equipment from suppliers Abicor Binzel and Osborn.