‘Quality Assurance’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release Micro stepper motors bring pictures into focus from EMS, which we summarised at the time by saying "Electro Mechanical Systems has supplied Precistep micro-stepper motors to Life Optics to allow it to develop a compact, reliable and light-weight head-mounted microscope.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release ABB drives reduce swimming pool energy bills from ABB Automation Tech (Drives and Motors): "ABB drives have helped a UK holiday park operator save GBP77,000 a year on energy bills for its swimming pools. ".

In November 2009, we covered the news from Laser Design - take a look at Laser Design system checks injection mould tooling which says: "Laser Design has announced that Schneider Electric recently installed a Laser Design Faro arm laser scanning system in its Cedar Rapids, Iowa facility. ".

Take a look also at the news release from Birchwood Casey, Birchwood sealants prevent rust and corrosion, as well as Process technology installed at biodiesel refinery from Flow Line Options, and Airchannel helps timber specialist save energy from Airchannel.

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Dassault Systemes releases latest PLM 2.0 platform (November 2009)

Dassault Systemes (DS) unveiled the latest release of its PLM 2.0 platform at its recent European Customer Forum.

Liquiphant accurately measures liquid levels (November 2009)

Endress and Hauser's Liquiphant is a vibrating level switch for accurate limit detection and point level-measurement of liquids.

Mobilescan HD helps gun grip maker improve quality (November 2009)

A custom gun grip manufacturer has improved the quality of its products by using the Mobilescan HD portable 3D laser scanning system from NVision to reverse engineer the original grips.

Wireless torque wrench has multiple tracking (November 2009)

Mountz has introduced the TALS wireless torque-wrench system, offering multiple channel- and tool-tracking capability in a single unit.

Imatek installs second 100KJ DWTT in Korea (November 2009)

Imatek has successfully installed a DWT40-100 drop weight tear tester (DWTT) at Hyundai Steel in South Korea.

TEC unveils rapid-prototype machines at ACTE (November 2009)

Technology Education Concepts (TEC) will be demonstrating a 3D printer and a tabletop prototyping factory at the 2009 Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) Convention.

Emerson Smart Wireless monitors resin products (November 2009)

Emerson Process Management's Smart Wireless technology is monitoring resin-batch temperatures at AOC's Perris, California, USA facility to enable better process control.

SGS sponsors talk on Russian petrochemicals (November 2009)

SGS has announced it will sponsor the annual roundtable entitled 'Refining and Petrochemicals in Russia and CIS Countries', which will take place in Amsterdam from 1 - 3 December 2009.

Quality assurance organisation certified

The Windchill Product Development and Quality Assurance organisation has met the requirements of the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 2.
Breakfast briefing focuses on quality assurance

First in a series of free monthly breakfast briefings for SMEs will focus on how smaller manufacturers can gain free access to TIC's knowledge and expertise in the field of quality.