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Category Archives: Process

Using an Oscilloscope

Using Diagnostic Tools To Evaluate a Machines Signals:

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Process Validation on Automated Inspection Samples

When you perform process validation on automated inspection your validation samples should include both good and bad parts.

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Taguchi’s Quality Loss Function

Of all the quality tools which are used in industry today Taguchi’s Quality Loss Function is one of the most under used and underappreciated tools for improving product quality.   This tool should be in every process engineer’s arsenal when a cost justification is necessary to improve a particular process, or if it would be beneficial […]

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Robotic Accuracy

Is your robot as accurate and repeatable as it claims?  The answer is yes,,,and no. Here are the three biggest reasons for “robotic” inaccuracy.   Every year someone publishes a video of a six-axis robot articulating though a seemingly random series of moves and distances.   Eventually the robot will return to a digital indicator and […]

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Multi Functional Expert

There has been much written in the last year regarding the value of experts in a variety of fields.  People who have looked at experts generically have developed ten-thousand hours as a typical amount of time to be considered an expert in a field of study.  There are of course exceptions to the rule.  An […]

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