Though quality inspections are widely practiced before, during and after production across a range of industries, those inspections are not so widely automated. In a recent survey of Automation World ...

A domestic battery manufacturer introduced technology two years ago to detect defective products using AI (artificial ...

Boeing Everett mechanic Ken Zabel is using a handy new tool that halves the work involved in one intricate job where the wing and fuselage of a 787 Dreamliner are joined together. Boeing says the ...

Companies must create a risk-based framework for developing and manufacturing drugs, and acquire the scientific knowledge and technological skills to create more complex products. The past few years ...

Bottom Line: Manufacturers’ most valuable data is generated on shop floors daily, bringing with it the challenge of analyzing it to find prescriptive insights fast – and an ideal problem for machine ...

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) ...

SAP Quality Management (QM) is a component of SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) that helps businesses implement and run quality control (QC) processes. It is designed to prevent defects, enable ...

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 ...

Despite the advance of automation technologies into virtually every realm of manufacturing, quality inspection remains a task commonly reserved for humans. One of the primary reasons for this is that ...