(Morehouse Instrument Co.: York, PA) — A trio of metrology industry veterans with more than 100 years of experience has co-authored a guidebook, Decision Rule Guidance, 1st Edition 2024, available for download. The book, co-authored by Henry Zumbrun of Morehouse Instrument Co., Greg Cenker of IndySoft, and Dilip Shah of E = mc3 Solutions, offers… ادامه خواندن New Book Demystifies Metrology Decision Rules

Who cares about succession planning? As an organization or an aspiring senior leader, you must care. Proper succession planning by an organization and its senior leaders is one of the keys to organizational resilience and long-term success. I know this from many Baldrige Award-winning organizations that have done effective succession planning and continued to thrive… ادامه خواندن Senior Leadership Succession Planning: Who Cares?

In this article, I’m looking at the relationship between capability index (Cpk or Ppk) and tolerance intervals. The capability index is tied to the specification limits, and tying this to the tolerance interval enables us to use the confidence/reliability statement allowed by the tolerance interval calculation. Consider the scenario below: A quality engineer is tasked… ادامه خواندن The Relationship Between Capability Index and Tolerance Intervals

According to an April 2024 joint study from the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the U.S. manufacturing industry will need to fill up to 3.8 million jobs within the next decade. The PUDU T300 is designed to alleviate potential labor shortages by automating the delivery and transport of materials, thereby enabling human workers to reallocate their… ادامه خواندن Pudu Robotics Launches PUDU T300

Process capability measures, such as Cpk and Ppk, measure how well your process is performing relative to your customer’s specifications. Let’s review some capability analysis basics and then delve into another capability estimate, Cnpk, that likely has a very useful place in your capability analysis arsenal. Capability Statistics Unpacked Using a single number, capability statistics… ادامه خواندن Getting Real: A Simple Way to Assess Process Capability Without Complex Assumptions

The wait is over! Minitab’s latest release is here, packed with powerful new features powered by AI. Unleash the power of your data and solve problems faster and easier than ever—with the trusted accuracy Minitab has delivered for over 50 years. Take a Deeper Dive into Minitab Statistical Software’s Latest Enhancements and Additions Watch our… ادامه خواندن Explore the Next Generation of Minitab Statistical Software

Machining too many parts that don’t meet specifications means lost time, lost material and lost business. But you can actually increase throughput and reduce error, all without sacrificing speed or accuracy. Watch this webinar to learn: About the industry’s current machining challenges and how 3D measurement technology can help overcome them How other manufacturers have… ادامه خواندن Keeping Your Machining Processes on Track with 3D Measurement Technology

(Emergent Vision Technologies: Port Coquitlam, British Columbia) — Emergent Vision Technologies, a pioneer in high-speed GigE Vision cameras and zero copy and zero-loss vision technologies, announced a further expansion of its powerful eCapture Pro software to include two new intuitive image processing tools: FlexProc and FlexTrans. Emergent’s eCapture Pro software allows users to fully integrate… ادامه خواندن Emergent Vision Software Extends Its eCapture Pro for Image Processing

Across the country, hundreds of thousands of drivers deliver packages and parcels to customers and companies each day, with many click-to-door times averaging only a few days. Coordinating a supply chain feat of this magnitude in a predictable and timely way is a longstanding problem of operations as researchers work to optimize the last leg… ادامه خواندن Enhancing Last-Mile Logistics With Machine Learning

One hundred years ago this month, Walter Shewhart wrote a memo that contained the first process behavior chart. In recognition of this centennial, this column reviews four different applications of the techniques that grew out of that memo. The first principle for interpreting data is that no data have any meaning apart from their context.… ادامه خواندن One Technique, Many Uses | Quality Digest