In a business, every time a product (defined as a product or service or both) is delivered to a customer there is a cost for that product.

Cost of quality (CoQ) is a hot topic right now. There have even been committees formed in various trade groups to take a closer look at CoQ. You probably have had internal discussions about the CoQ in your company and how those costs compare to other like manufacturers. 

BlueDocs™ is a module within Bluestreak™ that allows management of all corporate documents, such as quality and training manuals, operating procedures and equipment work instructions.

Western Forge Corporation of Colorado Springs, Colo., is a producer of quality hand tools. They recently upgraded their blast-cleaning operations by investing in new equipment from Blast Cleaning Technologies.

RP Series robots are available with a generous 36- x 20-inch work area in a compact, space-saving benchtop package.

The ability to automatically scan the entire surface of forgings for tiny cracks, pores or other glitches is of great benefit to the forging industry. Fluorescent-penetrant testing is a well-established inspection technique used in the metalworking industries.

Simufact Forming 14 software includes a newly developed GUI (graphical user interface) that simplifies the modeling and evaluation of the simulation results (preprocessing and post-processing).

The term “software” was originally coined by Alan Turing, but it wasn’t until 1957 that software was installed onto a computer hardware system as a tool to be called on as needed.