Yes, time really flies: TecnoNet, Tecnomatrix portal for customer project management, is already one year-old! Happy Birthday! And it has not stop to work all year long: it has now 200 users it has enabled the management of more than 300 projects, with a total of more than 70,000 operations –...

This video presents a checking fixture for a rear-view mirror assembly that simulates the area of the door where the support of the part is mounted.

Today we are going to present you the models of ultrasonic precision thickness gauge developped by Olympus. A thickness gauge is a tool enabling to determine the thickness of a material on a particular point by contact. The gauge is equipped with a sensor sending ultrasounds out. The thickness is calculated...

The readers of this blog working in the automotive sector – and there is quite a lot – must have realised, like me, how complicated the correct introduction of a design modification can be when our product is already in mass production and with a daily fabrication volume of hundreds of thousands...

Marposs surprises us with this portable version of the Merlin Mobile, offering nearly the same options as the Merlin, but working with sensors equipped with the Marposs Wave Bluetooth. This is a versatile device, and even more so for works on large parts, that require mobility. Particularly suitable...

Sometimes, when holding a new position in a company, we do not have the time to be properly trained due to the daily pressure, and have no other choice than using formulas and tools without knowing very well their origines or meanings. All we know is what we have been briefly told, that is, that if...

The checking jig that you can see in this video provides a full check of a sunvisor, with: Check of the part geometry: The length of the sunvisor is checked by a dial indicator, and its exterior shape by gap and flush. Check of the part forces: the checking jig has an area to adapt a dynamometer...

This is a question I have been wondering about over the past few months, when I heard for the first time about the possibility to have a car from AUDI produced by SEAT manufacturing plant in Martorell (Barcelona, Spain). This is still a mystery, since the SEAT Board of Managers has not received yet...

Today I will use a new video of the Tec Ease team to tell you about a problem we have to deal with very often when designing and manufacturing checking fixtures: part drawings with design problems. In many cases, we receive from our customers drawings detailing, apparently, the main features of the...

At the end of 2007, Xavier published an article presenting the organisation of OEMs worldwide. . While looking for some information on Internet, I found this “family tree” :