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” :

Over the past few weeks, we have discussed about the 6 Sigma process and the key elements to carry out this type of process in the best efficient way. One of these key elements is the processing of SPC and other sample data, that can be made with more precision and effectiveness through the use of a...

The Simpler it is, the Better it is The necessity to measure precisely, together with the development of complex surfaces, or of surfaces that cannot be touched during the process, trigger the development that the use of contactless technologies for detection and measurement is currently living through....

This time we have interviewed Ekaizen, that redacts its own blog “Pensando en kaizen” (thinking about kaizen). The photography displays a robot checking the superficial quality of a freshly painted body side. Here are the answers he kindly accepted to give us: Do you think that the high levels...

As you know, Measure Control is always looking for new points of view and perspectives to present you through our interviews. For the interview you will read today, we even crossed the Atlantic to find the right person to interview! Jeffery Younginer is the Director for Nissan Production Way and Manufacturing...

Now that we have defined the necessary concepts – see Part 1-, it is time to go to the very heart of the question. Let us imagine the following situation: an OEM decides – according to the no fault philosophy – that a provider has had in a short period of time one or several quality problems, and...