Aluminum castings and precision meet

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Ross Aluminum Foundries adopted statistical process control techniques and acquired a Fowler Trimos Vertical 3 Measuring System from Fred V. Fowler Company Inc. to improve the accuracy and repeatability of its aluminum casting inspection processes. In the past, the company had relied heavily on manual height gages and digital scales. However, these methods proved to be incapable of coping with changes in clients' precision requirements and often resulted in product variations. With the Vertical 3, these problems were eliminated and the company gained the ability to meet tolerances as small as 0.003 inches to 0.005 inches.

Measuring & controlling devices, not elsewhere classified, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing, Measure & Control Eqp NEC, Aluminum Foundries (except Die-Casting), Aluminum foundries, Aluminum Castings, Instrument industry, Instrument industry (Equipment), Evaluation, Product information, Quality management, Aluminum industry, Measuring instruments, Aluminum founding, Aluminum casting (Process), Ross Aluminum Foundries, Fred V. Fowler Company Inc.

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Integrating information for manufacturing quality

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Eldec Corp undertook a corporatewide integration of statistical process control (SPC) and work instructions by utilizing off-the-shelf technology, The company's information services group chose UNIX and X-Windows to deliver the systems and Sherpa Corp's product data management system to handle product and process definition. CIMLINC Inc's Linkage multimedia work instructions software provided the manufacturing interface for information coming from the PDM. The company also utilized Automated Technology Associates' Realtime Quality Management to collect and analyz SPC data.

Aircraft, Cover Story, Information services, Aerospace industry, Systems integration, Computer systems integration, Eldec Corp.

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Product-data management saves $1.1 million

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Rockwell Collins Avionics and Communications Div. adopts a new system in a bid to improve its operational efficiency and expand into more diversified markets. The computerized product-data management (PDM) system, which uses a PDM software from CoCreate Inc, brings in numerous advantages, including a $1.1 million savings in labor. The system's electronic markup and workflow capabilities helped in decreasing design cycle and time to market as well as increasing the speed of the company's serial review process.

Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, Global Positioning Systems, Methods, Information management, Global Positioning System, Database administration, Avionics industry, Rockwell Collins Avionics and Communication Div.

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