As an industrial engineer and digital transformation leader, I’ve worked across regulated industries—defense, aerospace and healthcare—where quality and compliance are paramount. Over the past few ...

As the core technology used in modern electronics manufacturing, surface-mount technology (SMT) assembly density is increasing, the number of pins is increasing, and the pitch is decreasing. In ...

With QMS/SCADA integration, operators can perform inspections within their SCADA interface, with automatic logging and immediate alerts when quality drift occurs. Unified platforms reduce licensing ...

There is now broad consensus that data-driven decision-making is essential to success in today’s highly competitive manufacturing environment. Customers’ price-consciousness, combined with demands for ...

Whether you’re producing pet food or pharmaceuticals or packaging any type of consumer goods, you know that quality is paramount. While implementing manual quality control (QC) procedures throughout ...

Have you ever watched a quality control team inspect a random, finished product only to discover a defect created weeks earlier? By then, the damage has already been done. If Shigeo Shingo (1909-1990) ...

As the final step in the production process, inspection is of critical importance to the manufacturing industry. Manufacturers generally allot adequate staff resources to perform inspection for the ...

It was recently reported from a case study done by researchers at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC; Rotherham, U.K.) that a vision inspection system using 3D ...