Technical Briefs

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Cross-Sectional Scanning Key in Molder's Competitive Strategy

To compete in the shrinking domestic tooling market, Matrix Tooling applies CSS to first article inspection... PDF   HTML


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Cross-Sectional Scanning Slashes Inspection Time and Labor

A quality expert discovers that automated process cuts labor costs by 80 percent and inspection time by 60 percent... PDF   HTML


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Cross-Sectional Scanning Delivers 100% Inspection

Traditional inspection tools may yield an incomplete assessment of injection molded parts. And with a direct correlation of time to measurement points, more data may be impractical or impossible... PDF   HTML

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All-Inclusive First Article Inspection Completed Faster

Cross-Sectional Scanning breaks the link between time and the number of parts or inspection points. It also severs dependency on the flawless inspection plans required by conventional technologies... PDF   HTML

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Pinpoint the True Cause of Failure

Quality problems will arise and parts will fail to meet spec. The failure may be due to an oversight in first article inspection; worn or aging tooling; or a change in molding suppliers. To fix the problem, you need to determine the true root cause... PDF   HTML

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High Definition Reverse Engineering

Legacy parts, digital archival and as-built documentation are examples of reverse engineering applications on which companies have come to depend. They are also examples that stretch the capabilities of contact and non-contact measurement tools... PDF   HTML

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Managing Measurement Uncertainty

While controlling the variation of each of these influencers will reduce the error and make it more predictable, the best practice is to eliminate the influences altogether. Cross-Sectional Scanning does just that... PDF   HTML

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Inspection and Reverse Engineering with Cross-Sectional Scanning

As the demand for quality heightens, time to market shortens and designs become increasingly complex, new tools are need to maintain a competitive advantage and reduce product costs. Companies have discovered that they need a complete quality picture, flexibility in quality procedures, reduced inspection costs and faster approval cycles... PDF   HTML

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