Lean thinking focuses on ways to add value without wasting resources. Benjamin Franklin captured the idea in “Poor Richard’s Almanack,” when he said, “He that idly loses five shillings worth of time, loses five shillings and might as prudently throw five shillings into the river.”
The makers of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) spent a long time in competition to reach the highest levels of repeatable measurement accuracy.
Any manufacturer operating under quality management system mandates, such as ISO9001, ISO13485, or AS9100, must at the very least maintain a measurement tool library database.
The promise of 5G is tempting. Fast data speeds and low latency rates make wireless connectivity, and real-time monitoring and decision making a possibility. Cost, legacy systems, security and other issues might be a deterrent that keeps some from dipping their toes into 5G waters.
One of the biggest challenges that any shop faces in 2020 is finding skilled workers to backfill those baby boomers who are retiring, or simply finding staff to meet the demand of a healthy manufacturing economy.
The COVID-19 crisis caught all of us off guard and interrupted global systems in a way not experienced in recent memory.
New device is for measuring diameters of ground parts.
3D Systems announced an expansion of its plastics materials portfolio.
Hexagon moves its PC-DMIS user community event online with full day program on May 21, 2020
The new GOM scanner is a compact 3D metrology scanner, featuring interchangeable measuring lenses for flexibility and a modern design for portability.