Items Tagged with 'process monitoring'

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Cavity Pressure Is the Key to Molding Consistent, Quality Parts

Cavity Pressure Is the Key to Molding Consistent, Quality Parts

Pressure conditions in certain phases of the molding process correlate to specific attributes of the part.
Suzanne Graeser Bieri
June 9, 2021
Validation causes more headaches for medical device manufacturers than almost any other stage of the production process. For companies certified to ISO 13485, validation is always a costly and time-consuming undertaking, regardless of whether a new process is being set up or an existing process is being transferred.
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Fastening, Pressing and Industry 4.0

Fastening, Pressing and Industry 4.0

Engineers can do more with force and torque data than simply make “good” or “not good” decisions about assemblies
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John Sprovieri
May 15, 2020
Just as the Rose Bowl is the "granddaddy" of college football bowl games, torque and angle might well be the granddaddies of manufacturing data collection. Assemblers have been monitoring their fastening processes for decades, but those efforts have reached a new level in the era of Industry 4.0.
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The Transparent Factory

The Transparent Factory

The correct approach to data management can transform a business and its ability to serve its marketplace
Jason Spera
December 1, 2016

If you can’t see it, you can’t measure it, and if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it! This is the simple mantra of successful manufacturers the world over. Manufacturing excellence can only come from manufacturing visibility.


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Orbital and Radial Forming for Delicate Assemblies

Orbital and Radial Forming for Delicate Assemblies

New technologies are enabling orbital and radial forming equipment to tackle sophisticated assembly applications.
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John Sprovieri
August 4, 2016

Engineers at a major manufacturer of portable electronic devices had a problem. They needed to rivet a small, thin electrical contact to the device’s charger subassembly, but how could they head the tiny rivets—0.02 to 0.03 inch in diameter—without crushing the assembly?


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