Since the first industrial revolution, improving productivity has been a major goal for most manufacturing operations. Today, in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution, that hasn’t changed.

A mechanically adjustable sensing cutoff point allows a family of laser sensors to detect small objects with relatively low reflectivity while ignoring background objects immediately behind the set ...

Engineers at Remploy Automotive have invented a range of ‘error proof’ machines that are revolutionising the way car parts are made. The intelligent jigs ...

In-Line Inspection Applications offers an in-depth look at the uses of in-line inspection, or error-proofing, in a production environment. Error-proofing uses individualized setups to inspect a part ...

redress when they receive the wrong medication or even the wrong operation. Medical mistakes kill up to 120,000 people annually; it doesn’t matter how good the doctors are, because the system in which ...