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Additive Manufacturing Review for SAE
For this major review carried out for the Society of Automotive Engineers, I interviewed engineers at the global leader in additive manufacturing (AM) technology. A…
The problem with hydrogen
The problem with wind and solar is intermittency and storage. Hydrogen is often seen as the solution – an ideal way to store this energy.…
Growth of bicycle manufacturing in Europe
I recently carried out a review of bicycle manufacturers in Europe and was really surprised to see how strong the growth is in this sector.…
Intrinsic Uncertainty: The Elephant in the Room
It’s often assumed that confidence in a measurement equates to confidence a product conforms. However, we can only measure at discrete points on a surface,…
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Low-Cost Recycled Composites for Automotive
Composites offer significant advantages where high strength and low weight are required. These materials are, unfortunately, also very difficult to recycle. Composites consist of fiber…
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Etalon Multiline Enables Self-calibrating Machine Tools
Achieving right-first-time manufacturing requires regular calibration and verification of production machinery. On-machine measurement makes this even more important. Achieving rapid, automated and fully traceable calibration…
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Why simulation is the future of uncertainty evaluation
In this article, I show that the conventional method for calculating uncertainty is not always reliable. In fact, it is generally only exact when the…
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Using CAD to Synthesize Mechanisms
When I’m designing a linkage mechanism I often have some particular motion that I need to achieve. In this article I explain the first step…
NPL Brings Frequency Scanning Interferometry to Large-Scale Manufacturing
Frequency scanning interferometry uses a tunable laser to provide highly accurate distance measurements. It was first developed by researchers at the University of Oxford who…
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VDA-5: Combining Uncertainty Evaluation with Gage Studies
The VDA-5 standard is a big step forward for the evaluation of industrial measurements. It combines the practicality of gage studies with a rigorous uncertainty…
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Developing Automated Assembly & Inspection Technology for Aircraft Structures
A new £8 million research project, led by GKN Aerospace and backed by the UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), is focusing on developing and demonstrating…
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Manufacturing a Carbon Revolution
There has been huge excitement in recent years about new forms of carbon such as graphene, carbon nanotubes and Buckminsterfullerene (buckyballs). This article looks at the…
3D Scanner Designed for Fully Automated Inspection Begins Testing
A novel optical 3D scanner called the Hexagon Blaze 600A has been developed to overcome conventional issues with the noncontact measurement of composites. The system…
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AI closes the loop for composites manufacturing
Researchers are developing ways of using machine learning to adjust process parameters in automated composites manufacturing. This is removing the need for human intervention and…
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An instrument going from ‘Big Science’ to large-scale manufacturing
Frequency Scanning Interferometry (FSI) was invented to measure movements of the detectors in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Now a team at the UK’s…
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How Gage Studies Can Get it Wrong
A gage study involves real measurements of a calibrated reference, so many people feel it is a completely reliable metric for instrument capability. However, in…
Sensitivity Coefficients in Uncertainty Budgets
This article follows on my previous introductions to uncertainty and uncertainty budgets. It goes into more detail about some of the more tricky aspects of uncertainty budgets.…
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Gage Studies and Gage R&R on engineering.com
If you’ve ever been involved with an industrial measurement process, chances are you’ve come across Gage studies and in particular Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (Gage…
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Calculating Your Uncertainty Budget… on engineering.com
This is a detailed article explaining how you can calculate an uncertainty budget. It follows my previous introduction to Metrology and Quality in Manufacturing. My previous…
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An Introduction to Metrology and Quality in Manufacturing on engineering.com
In this detailed article, I introduce the basics of maintaining quality. This involves quality assurance, quality control and metrology. We use quality assurance to gain confidence…
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