Quality 1996 - Abstracts

Quality 1996
TitleSubjectAuthors
16 awards help MEP meet manufacturers' needs. (Manufacturing Extension Partnership)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
AIAG expands mission. (Automotive Industry Action Group)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Alcoa cuts tensile-testing time with robotics. (Aluminum Company of America)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
ASME report ends threaded-fastener controversy. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
ATP funding goes from zero to $221 million in final budget. (Advanced Technology Program)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Auto industry ready to help with QS-9000 registration.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Automated pouring saves $1 million. (Chrysler Foundry installs automated pouring systems from Selcom Inc.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Baldrige escapes the budget ax. (Baldrige National Quality Program; House approval of HR 3814)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Buyers guide. (Quality's annual Buyers Guide)(1996 Buyers Guide Issue)(Buyers Guide)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Choose a CMM for accuracy, then speed. (coordinate-measuring machine)Engineering and manufacturing industriesRich Knebel
Data linkage key to process improvement. (moving files between computer-aided design and coordinate-measuring-machine systems)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Don't be deceived by functional thread diameters.Engineering and manufacturing industriesBruce R. DuPont
Durable LVDTs ideal in new gage applications. (linear variable-differential transformer)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Focus on accuracy in data-acquisition systems. (includes related article on noise filtering)Engineering and manufacturing industriesBruce Fuller
Guidelines for selecting a dial indicator.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
ISO 9002: one company's experience. (Dwight D.I.C. Inc.)(includes related articles)Engineering and manufacturing industriesMurray P. Dwight
ISO certification provides long-term payoff. (International Standards Organization)Engineering and manufacturing industriesSidney Hill
ISO/TC 176 prepares ISO 9000 for 2000. (International Organization of Standardization/technical committee)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Management-system standard gets lukewarm support.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Manufacturers bank on ISO 14001 draft standard.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
New DMIS standard no longer carries patent stigma. (dimensional measuring interface standard)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
NGM hopes to provide a model for success. (Next Generation Manufacturing)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
NIST programs get good marks. (National Institute of Standards and Technology)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
PDM system helps QMS reduce cycle times. (product-data-management; QMS Inc.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Process flowcharting meets simulation modeling.Engineering and manufacturing industriesGordon Sellers
QS-9000's reach extends to sub-tier suppliers.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
R&D funding stagnant.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Selecting multiplant SPC software. (statistical process control)Engineering and manufacturing industriesEric Berg
Smooth out the road to ISO 9000 implementation. (International Standards of Organization)Engineering and manufacturing industriesTim Edmunds
Software follows 27,000-km cable across time zones. (monitoring of production and quality of the fiber-optic telecommunications cable system of the FLAG Ltd. project)Engineering and manufacturing industriesIlie Lupu
Software hones CMM accuracy. (coordinate measuring machines)Engineering and manufacturing industriesJim Hunt
Solectron manages growth with client/server system. (Solectron Corp.)Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Strategic thinking, not planning, the key to success.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Tax dollars at work at BMP. (Best Manufacturing Practices Program)Engineering and manufacturing industriesParr Gary
Team incentives prominent among "best-practice" companies.Engineering and manufacturing industries 
Ten questions to ask when buying gages. (cylindrical ring gages)Engineering and manufacturing industriesWendell Alderman
Understanding and using design of experiments.Engineering and manufacturing industriesJim Cusimano
Use a decision tree to recalculate control limits.Engineering and manufacturing industriesChad Cullen
Use the correct filter cut-off when measuring surface roughness.Engineering and manufacturing industriesRonald A. Lavoie
Your source for electronic data-acquisition products.(Buyers Guide)Engineering and manufacturing industriesNancy A. Chase
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