Archive for May, 2003
Mathcad® is the right solution for the job at Dynamic Air
Len Williams, Managing Director of Dynamic Air in the UK, is finding Mathcad a better answer to many in-house problems that he would once have had to write dedicated programs to solve. With Mathcad, it is easy to re-use ...
Article from Control magazine, December 21, 2001
By Rich Merritt, Senior Technical Editor
Sharing QC data with suppliers and vendors can reduce surprises and provide valuable feedback for process improvements.
What a revolutionary idea! Acquire quality control (QC) data while you are making the product, and then pass that data to your customer ...
Innovative Taiwanese manufacturer ADLINK has been responsible for some of the most cost-effective PXI instrumentation hardware of the last couple of years, and its latest instrumentation chassis range, including both PXI and CompactPCI products, provides a typically versatile, practical and economical solution.
The new range, available in the UK through Adept ...
Austin Exploration Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, conducts GPS-based high-resolution land and marine gravity and magnetic surveys throughout the world. Their surveys and associated interpretations have proven to be invaluable to the oil and gas industries worldwide. Austin Exploration’s surveys are also beneficial to the mining industry in its search ...
WinWedge inputs serial data from any instrument directly into Excel, Access, MMI's, LIMS, Statistical Software, etc... any Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT or DOS application. This case study looks at how Ultralife Batteries are using this software in their manufacturing process.
Ultralife Batteries are among the pioneers of the lithium ...
Authors can now format papers instantly in the Science of Synthesis style
ISI ResearchSoft and Thieme Chemistry announce support for the Science of Synthesis publication style requirements in EndNote. Now authors using the patent-pending Cite While You Write feature of EndNote can save time and increase accuracy when preparing papers ...
Simulation provides insight and saves training time at Surry Power Station.
A state-of-the-art, hands-on training program was developed at Surry Power Station to improve the skills of operators in the use of controller modules that operate steam generator power-operated relief valves. The steam generator controller modules operate automatically or manually to open ...
Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technologies Corporation, is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) equipment worldwide. For more than five years, Carrier has been committed to using VisSim to model, simulate, and validate product designs ranging in scope from single zone ...
For many years, the de facto formatting standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents, especially for papers containing mathematical equations, has been LaTeX. Many scientific and technical publishers still accept papers only in LaTeX format. Although these days Microsoft Word is the word processing environment used by the ...
In the past, it took up to two months of special machine shop work, circuit design, hand coded software development and in-car testing to determine whether a design was feasible for production. Now, with the combination of fast and powerful block diagram-based modeling and simulation software from Visual Solutions and ...
Measurement Computing (MCC) has introduced a highly competitive new design in its PCI-DAS6000 range of data acquisition boards for PCs. The sixteen-channel PCI-DAS6070 is an analogue input board combining high speed (1.25MHz) with superb build quality and a remarkable price of £1,150.
Supported and sold in the UK by Adept Scientific, ...
For over 200 years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has carried out its constitutional and legislative mission to promote industrial and technological progress in the United States. The first U.S. Patent, issued in 1790, bears the signature of George Washington. Today, the PTO administers the laws relating ...
When glass-container company Saint-Gobain Containers (formerly Ball-Foster Glass Container) implemented a company-wide quality program across its 18 plants, the company standardised its quality data management with NWA Quality Analyst software from Northwest Analytical, Inc.
"Our quality has always been very good, but to be the best in this marketplace, we wanted ...
Statistical Process/Quality Control exploits the Internet
Finally, you've got it right. It's taken months or even years to perfect your statistical process control (SPC) system. But now how do you replicate your success at other facilities? The answer: Use the Internet to share data with multiple locations.
Lexmark International, a laser-printer toner ...
When it comes to feeding cats and dogs, The Iams Company is serious about quality.
The worldwide leader in premium pet foods uses statistical process control (SPC) and continuous process improvement at every stage of its production operation. "Our quality system is developed around the whole production cycle," says Dave Bechtel, ...
Mounting pressure for product consistency and quality and a mandate to reduce costs spurred container manufacturer Crown Cork and Seal Co. Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) to institute quality measures that could be applied across the board throughout its manufacturing sites around the world. The fully appreciate the size and importance of this task, consider ...
Researchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) are exploring applications of Maple in the interpretation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) information for the early detection and characterisation of small tumours.
Vascular networks required for nurturing growth in tumour microenvironments can be much denser than in normal tissue. Vascular ...
The Structures Design Office within the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will now standardise on Mathsoft™'s Mathcad® software. The FDOT now has Mathcad available to all its structural engineers for use in creating, updating and verifying the calculations behind the critical infrastructure of the state.
The FDOT employs more than ...
Maple™ 9 enhances mathematical exploration with a versatile infrastructure, friendlier user interface and innovative, powerful capabilities.
Adept Scientific are pleased to announce the release of Maple 9, the newest version of the widely adopted Maple analytical computation software from Maplesoft™ (Ontario, Canada), used by educators, researchers and professionals across the ...
Maple™ 9 enhances mathematical exploration with a versatile infrastructure, friendlier user interface and innovative, powerful capabilities.
Adept Scientific are pleased to announce the release of Maple 9, the newest version of the widely adopted Maple analytical computation software from Maplesoft™ (Ontario, Canada), used by educators, researchers and professionals across the ...
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