Toyota Motor has purchased Test Advantage’s Streetwise software platform to support its zero defect program. The platform comprises a suite of tools for decreasing semiconductor manufacturers’ ...

Wood product manufacturers must develop a company-wide attitude that errors are not acceptable if they are going to cost-efficiently produce products of a quality that will compete in today's global ...

When discussing product quality in integrated circuits (ICs), two key aspects are essential: time zero defects and reliability. These concepts help distinguish between issues that appear immediately ...

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Quality assurance methods address quality issues in the output of businesses. Lean and six sigma principles apply approaches and metrics to a process to promote efficiency with a minimum number of ...

Inspecting Entapack’s multilayer liners to ensure zero contamination. As every experienced manufacturing engineer knows, producing quality products is often not enough. There needs to be a way to ...

Two cameras simultaneously scan each row of molded coil forms on a fast-moving belt.The entire contour of each coil form is inspected in detail within 100 msec. Absolute zero on the Kelvin scale is †...

Automakers talked for years about zero defects as a worthy goal, but now it’s an absolute requirement, according to Dave Valletta, senior vice president of worldwide strategic sales at Vishay ...

BMW wants its EV owners to forget about battery issues. For the high-voltage batteries in the upcoming Neue Klasse EVs, BMW is sticking to a zero-defect approach. Every cell that comes into the ...