- Adjust Quality in Real Time
In discrete applications, automation systems and quality control systems are often separate, producing a time lag between quality analysis and actual production. Wouldn't it be great to monitor quality information in real time and feed corrective instructions back to the control system in a closed loop before the production line ......
- Multek's variation reduction initiative:
implementing a quality system across multiple facilities is an enormous
task. How a Top 10 PCB company developed its statistical-based defect
elimination and...
In the past few years Multek has embarked on a quality initiative that has made it a significant leader in merging PCB manufacturing with statistical-based quality. At a time when many organizations fell in love with Six Sigma, Ben Robinson, Chief Operating Officer of Multek contacted me--president and founder of ......
- Quality Control, 5th ed.
Quality Control - 5th Edition Dale H. Besterfield Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1998, ISBN 0-13-632571-8 This text is designed for two purposes: first, as a classroom text for students in technical institutes, community colleges, and universities, and second, as a training manual for personnel in professional organizations and industrial corporations. The ......
- Statistical Quality Assurance Methods for
Engineers.
Stephen B. Vardeman and J. Marcus Jobe John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999, 561 pp., ISBN 0-471-15937-3 Given the substantial number of texts focusing on statistical quality improvement that have appeared in recent years, the introduction of yet another text might appear to be of dubious benefit. However, this might ......
- Advancing Inspection Systems.
Glassmakers are facing ever-increasing demands for higher quality products and as a result, some of the older quality control systems are being upgraded and new methods developed to provide more accurate fault detection. At Glassman Asia 98, AGR will be demonstrating its latest piece of laboratory inspection equipment, the hot ......
- Analyzing Aluminum Melt Quality from Furnace to
Mold.
In an effort to improve aluminum melt quality control, a high-production low-pressure permanent mold foundry analyzed hydrogen levels and inclusions at six key melt sites. As global competition intensifies, foundries face myriad demanding issues that affect profitability. Improvements in design, lead time, scrap and production directly impact future market possibilities....
- Diagnosability study of multistage manufacturing
processes based on linear mixed-effects models.
Automatic in-process data collection techniques have been widely used in complicated manufacturing processes in recent years. The huge amounts of product measurement data have created great opportunities for process monitoring and diagnosis. Given such product quality measurements, this article examines the diagnosability of the process faults in a multistage manufacturing ......