Smart manufacturing is the use of The Internet of Things (IoT) devices to improve efficiency and productivity of manufacturing operations. Many manufacturing facilities and production lines are undergoing process changes for these technology updates. According to a recent estimation by McKinsey, the potential economic impact…
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the government is finishing a study of tariffs on cars imported to the United States, while a U.S. automobile manufacturers’ group warned that placing new tariffs on imported cars will drive consumer prices up thousands of dollars per…
You are only as good as your team. Even if you have heard this before, for the high achiever the focus is still “me”, but, a leader’s focus is “them”. Just as every business is at least slightly different, there is no project team cookie…
Sustained Quality Group is proud to support women in engineering everyday and particularly on this 23rd day of June. Coordinated by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) started in 2014. In 2017, INWED became international for the first time due to the…
The automotive industry’s closely watched gauges of quality gained even more momentum compared to last year. New vehicle quality has reached an all-time high according to the latest J.D. Power Initial Quality Survey (IQS), and the 2018 IQS reveals a number of surprising trends. The latest…
No business wants to experience downtime. When in manufacturing, the financial cost of downtime can be significant. To satisfy financial goals and keep bottom line strong, understand how much downtime costs, as well as how to reduce it. The average manufacturer deals with 800 hours…
Computer vision, machine vision, or vision technology is an emerging tool that aims to provide expert-level accuracy in identifying objects or classifying them in less than a fraction of a second. This is done by replicating the sensorial systems in living creatures. A sensor captures…
