Reducing scrap, increasing quality, speeding cycle times, and improving overall equipment efficiency up to 20% Beyond micrometers and calipers 20 3D measurements within 30 sec Reducing incoming part ...

It’s no secret to anyone involved in aerospace composites that production rates in commercial aircraft assembly lines anchored by advanced layup processes — automated fiber placement (AFP) and ...

The BMW motorcycle plant in Berlin. During my time in Germany for Hannover Fair 2015, I had the opportunity to visit BMW’s motorcycle production facility in Berlin as a guest of Siemens. All BMW ...

The Manufacturers Association for Plastics Processors announced winners of its Innovation Award in late August. The contest, the third for MAPP, focused on automation. More than 250 industry ...

Glass-fiber-reinforced plastics (GFRPs) and renewable natural materials, such as wood and cork, are being used ever more widely in industrial lightweight construction. Damage invisible to the naked ...

Composites, once confined to aerospace and automotive sectors, are now driving innovation across freight, construction and energy industries, enhancing sustainability and competitiveness. CAMX 2024 ...

If you’re producing small precision components, quality drives the entire manufacturing process. One of the ways to help ensure the quality of such products is through the use of automated inspection ...

The key to precision manufacturing is right there in the name: precision. Accurate measurement is crucial to reproducibility, and reproducibility is the soul of modern manufacturing. Because of this, ...

The standards for precision in parts finished by contract machine shops are increasingly stringent thanks to the specifications and tolerances required by buyers in automotive, aerospace, medical, and ...

Receive a 15% discount on “Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities” by ordering from www.elsevierdirect.com and using offer code 92839. [Part 1 of this article begins with a look at the ...

So many things in food production could go wrong: from fruits and vegetables getting moldy to insects and small animals invading bagged salads and packaged pastry. Let’s look how utomated visual ...

To ensure that the speed of composites fabrication keeps pace with customer demand, the ability to inspect and monitor composite part quality must become an integral part of high-rate part ...