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In this issue of Quality Magazine's UPDATE:
- Manufacturing Technology Consumption Up 6.3%
- DMIS 5.1 Approved
- 2-D Vision for a 3-D World
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Weighing only 2.12 pounds (0.96 kilograms), the new EPOCH LTC digital ultrasonic flaw detector is now the smallest in the
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Product Spotlight:
ADMET eXpert 5601 UTM
ADMET’s 1kN single-column tabletop universal testing machine is used to perform tensile tests on specialty plastic substrates to improve manufacturing quality. It can test plastic substrates used in disposable respirators. The manufacturer is performing tests according to ASTM D5035 to determine tensile strength and elongation data for optimizing roller tension in fusing equipment and minimizing defects in their polymer substrate fusing process.
MORE
ADMET Inc.
51 Morgan Drive
Norwood, MA 02062
(800) 667-3220
www.admet.com
sales@admet.com
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Manufacturing Technology Consumption Up 6.3% Year-to-Date
MCLEAN, VA—October U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $393.40 million, according to AMT, the Association for Manufacturing Technology, and AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association. This total, as reported by companies participating in the USMTC program, was down 10.1% from September, but up 3.1% from the total of $381.62 million reported for October 2006. With a year-to-date total of $3,468.93 million, 2007 was up 6.3% compared with 2006.
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Industry News: Sanmina-SCI Selects Pilgrim Software
Tampa, FL—Pilgrim Software Inc., provider of enterprise compliance and quality management (ECQM) software solutions, announces that Sanmina-SCI Corp., an electronics contract manufacturer, has selected its SmartTrain solution. |
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March 31-April 3 WESTEC 2008 Exposition and Conference, Los Angeles, CA. Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), (800) 733-4763.
www.sme.org
March 17-19 MET-302 Hands-on Metrology Statistics, Everett WA. Fluke Corp., (425) 446-6330. www.fluke.com/2006caltraining
April 22-25 Control 2008, Stuttgart, Germany. P.E. Schall GmbH, +(49)-7025-92060.
www.control-messe.com/en/control
April 28-May 1 Quality Measurement Conference 2008, Clearwater, FL. Quality magazine, (248) 786-1584.
www.qualitymag.com/qmc
April 28-May 1 Quality NDT Conference 2008, Clearwater, FL. Quality magazine, (248) 786-1584.
www.ndtmag.com/qndtc
June 11-12 Quality Expo Detroit, Detroit, MI. Canon Communications, (310) 445-4200. www.cancom.com
September 8-13 IMTS 2008, Chicago, IL. The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT), (703) 893-2900. www.imts.com
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DMIS 5.1 Approved
ARLINGTON, TX—DMIS 5.1, the latest version of the DMIS dimensional metrology standard, was formally approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) on Friday, November 16, 2007. DMIS version 5.1 has the official designation ANSI/DMIS 105.1-2007, Part 1
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DMIS 5.1 improves upon the December 2004 release of DMIS 5.0 with approximately 95 resolutions from submitted standard improvement requests (SIRs) along with other improvements and enhanced capabilities. Resolutions included removal of known ambiguities, support of DML, change in line-length limitation, added recalibrate sensors, refreshed scope verbiage, updates EBNF characterization file and addressed I++/DME support.
DMIS 5.1 will be distributed under the sponsorship of the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC Inc.).
www.dmisstandards.org |
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2-D Vision for a 3-D World
The coordinate measuring machine (CMM) business continues to churn out emerging technologies at an eager pace. Likewise, the 2-D vision measurement industry also is moving with the times. As modern day manufacturing increasingly relies on 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) data to produce accurate parts, the vision world has made the leap into this new dimension.
by Gary Hobart
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