Operators at Marland Mold used to use separate
height gages and indicators for each part feature. According to
Wayne Ciepiela, quality assurance manager for Marland Mold, it took
several hours to set up...
Precise determination of inclinations is a critical
requirement for Seagate Inc. (Bloomington, MN), a vertically integrated
builder of hard disk and tape drives for computer data storage....
"We’re a production machine shop," said Dennis
Murphy, quality assurance manager at McSwain Manufacturing, Cincinnati.
The company crafts specialized parts for industries including power
generation...
Sometimes the inability to drill or ream a hole
accurately can make or break the functioning of a high technology
aircraft, according to a manufacturing engineering specialist with
Lockheed-Martin Tactical Systems in Fort Worth...
A new way to check out rotational deviations on the sophisticated
coordinate measuring machines produced by Carl Zeiss, Inc.'s IMT
Division reduces inspection time by two hours per machine...
How to measure a part 80" long to a close tolerance of .002"? This
was the challenge at Gardner Denver Machinery Inc., which had long
searched in vain for a reliable way to check the external length
of an impeller used in a blower...
A Life would be simpler if we could safely
drive three times as fast as we do now. As individuals, we could
increase our productivity by decreasing our travel time. Less time
in the car would be more time at work or play...
A new state of the art bore gage is making it possible
for Eskridge, Inc.-- a machine shop specializing in rotation drives,
planetary gear boxes and fail-safe brakes -- to shorten delivery
times, boost part accuracy...
It's axiomatic in the metalworking industry that
for quality production, a measuring gage has to be ten times more
accurate than the part it measures. "We call it a gage R&R of
ten percent," says Willie Michaely, quality assurance...
For both its large and smaller rotary transfer
machines, Hydromat, Inc. relies on high precision measuring equipment
from Fowler not only to manufacture these versatile machines but
also to supply metrology systems to its extensive group...
For Fairfield, which has been able "to reduce costly,
post-production inspection, the major challenge has been to increase
our on-line measuring capabilities so that we can have optimum control
of our manufacturing process...
With its new Quality Laboratory in full swing,
Hytrol Conveyor Company is assuring its top position in the field
by focusing on having the latest and most advanced metrology instruments...
Advance Turning and Manufacturing Inc., really
lives up to its name these days, particularly since the specialty
machine shop has begun using a new thread gaging system from the
Fred V. Fowler Company. ...
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