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sector investments,” says an NSC official. E.J. Ajax invests more than 5.5 percent of its annual payroll in employee education, and believes in the value of employer-led partner- ships to prepare workers for jobs within the industry.
“We are proud to have become a carefully chosen VQE partner,” Meyer stated in accepting the award. “This award recognizes our suc- cessful long-term partner- ship with our customer Volvo, and is a special mark of appreciation for Schuler and the dedicated work of all of our employees.”
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plant tours and new-equip- ment demonstrations, the event will include presenters from aerospace, medical and automotive industries, avail- able to talk with manufactur- ers seeking to increase throughput yet hampered by slow inspection and data-col- lection capabilities. Atten- dees also will have access to the company’s application engineers and guest speakers for one-on-one discussions.
analysis software is another key area manufacturers are looking at. We want to expose people to CMM equipment they can actually use on the shop floor versus the tradition- al method of having to remove parts from production and transfer them to a quality-con- trol laboratory for measure- ment and verification.”
Schuler Receives Volvo Quality Excellence Award
Press-system manufactur- er Schuler AG has received the Volvo Cars Quality Excel- lence (VQE) award, in recogni- tion of stable delivery and high service performance. Axel Meyer, head of Schuler’s service division, accepted the trophy on behalf of the com- pany from Kjell-Åke Eriksson, Volvo vice president of indi- rect purchasing, at Volvo’s headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden.
“Quality control can no longer be a bottle neck in manufacturing,” says Gary Rockwell, AIMS Metrology director of marketing and product development. “Recent advances in CMM technology have demonstrated the ability to improve throughput and reduce inspection time by as much as 50 percent. Improved data collection and
StampSource Adds Press Capacity
AIMS Metrology to Host Quality Event in May
StampSource, Charlotte, NC, recently purchased three mechanical presses, an invest- ment expected to increase rev- enue by at least 30 percent at the 66-year-old manufacturer.
Advanced Industrial
Measurement Systems
(AIMS) Metrology, a maker of
The Danly, Niagara and Seyi presses include a large- bed 275-ton model, a 400-ton press with heavy-duty feed line and a 500-ton press, and allow the company to produce
coordinate-measuring
machines (CMMs), will host
Advancing Quality In Manu-
facturing, May 10-12, 2016,
at its newly expanded facility
in Dayton, OH. In addition to
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