To ensure that the speed of composites fabrication keeps pace with customer demand, the ability to inspect and monitor composite part quality must become an integral part of high-rate part ...

If you’re producing small precision components, quality drives the entire manufacturing process. One of the ways to help ensure the quality of such products is through the use of automated inspection ...

Reducing scrap, increasing quality, speeding cycle times, and improving overall equipment efficiency up to 20% Beyond micrometers and calipers 20 3D measurements within 30 sec Reducing incoming part ...

Automated fiber placement (AFP) layups can now be automatically inspected in real time. Anyone reading this blog probably knows that fast, efficient automated fiber placement (AFP) and automated tape ...

The key to precision manufacturing is right there in the name: precision. Accurate measurement is crucial to reproducibility, and reproducibility is the soul of modern manufacturing. Because of this, ...

AXI is an effective technology for finding manufacturing defects in electronics assembly operations. Manufacturers of advanced electronics products know that simultaneously producing a ...

The BMW motorcycle plant in Berlin. During my time in Germany for Hannover Fair 2015, I had the opportunity to visit BMW’s motorcycle production facility in Berlin as a guest of Siemens. All BMW ...

Once the finished bearing races have been automatically measured, the hard-turned components are engraved and then placed in shipping containers by the robot. Conroe Machine in Conroe, Texas, is doing ...

The machine-based examination of products by scanning their surfaces. For example, automated optical inspection (AOI) is widely used to spot defects in the manufacture of electronic systems. After ...

The defining feature of collaborative robots (cobots) is their built-in safety systems that stop a robot from operating when it comes into contact with an employee. Universal Robots (UR) pushes the ...

CNC machining benefits, precision engineering, advanced fabrication techniques, tight tolerance manufacturing, custom ...

Delivering small items such as hearing-aid speakers, cell-phone connectors, and automobile pressure sensors to automated assembly equipment requires inspecting the parts upstream to ensure that the ...