ON-MACHINE INSPECTION DRIVES QUALITY

Staying competitive today means having your process under control from the first part. If something goes wrong, you need to know it as soon as it happens, not minutes or hours later. The only practical way to do that is to migrate the critical primary inspection operations upstream from the QC lab to the production floor, and that's what on-machine inspection lets you do.

Ed Vella, president of Marposs Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich., interviewed by Manufacturing Engineering.
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Read the On-Machine Inspection Drives Quality article, that first appeared in the February 2007 issue of Manufacturing Engineering Magazine.

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