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Spotting bubbles with process data

  • Article in Today's Motor Vehicles
February 14, 2017

Vision systems can’t see air trapped within gasketing material, so an automotive powertrain supplier turned to Sciemetric to find a new way to spot bubbles before they compromised seals. Sciemetric account manager Aaron Alberts shares with Today’s Motor Vehicles how and why Sciemetric worked with fluid handling products and systems company Graco to create the Graco Dispense Analyzer.

Effective Leak Testing: Are you testing the part or the seal?

  • Article on Automation.com
February 2, 2017

A poor seal between the part to be tested and the leak test station can skew test results, allowing faulty parts to pass and perfectly good ones to be failed. In this feature published by Automation.com, Sciemetric leak test specialist Robert Plumridge explores how quality engineers can address the common issues with achieving a consistently reliable seal to ensure a reliable test.

A new look at leak testing

  • Article in Smart Industry
December 29, 2016

Sciemetric CEO Nathan Sheaff talks to the editors of Smart Industry about how digital transformation and big data analysis have converged to create a new generation of intelligent leak test systems that provide manufacturers with the reliability and the repeatability to achieve a higher standard of production quality.

Smart Leak Tester Grades on Curve

  • Article in New Equipment Digest
November 25, 2016

Richard Brine, Sciemetric’s CTO, talks to the editors of New Equipment Digest about the 3520 Series Leak Test and how its use of smart sensors, precision electronics and digital process signature analysis delivers a new level of repeatability and reliability to the often frustrating process of leak testing.

Temperature Effects on Reported Leak Rate

  • Article in Quality Magazine
November 1, 2016

Sciemetric product launch manager Robert Ouellette shares with Quality Magazine how quality engineers can measure and compensate for the sometimes dramatic effects of temperature variations on the accuracy and repeatability of a leak test.

Quality: Starting with Effective Data Management

  • Article in Industrial Machinery Digest
November 1, 2016

Richard Brine, Sciemetric’s CTO, discusses with Industrial Machinery Digest how manufacturers must evolve beyond scalar data collection and analysis alone to rise to the big data challenge posed by Industry 4.0. He outlines the need for centralized collection and analysis of the digital process signatures, or waveforms, generated by every cycle of the process and test stations on the line.

The Birth of In-Process Testing

  • Article in Quality Digest
October 4, 2016

An automaker’s search for something better than hot test redefined quality on the assembly line with the introduction of Sciemetric's Process Signature Verification (PSV) technology for in-process test monitoring and analysis. In the years that have followed, Sciemetric technology and our customers' adoption of it have evolved with the emergence of Industry 4.0 and the smart factory.

The Basics of Torque Testing

  • Article in Quality Magazine
September 1, 2011

Former Sciemetric product marketing manager Bruce Takasaki shares with Quality Magazine where and how torque testing is most effective as a quality assurance process on a production line and what types of test are best depending on the part or assembly in question.