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Using 3D scanning for quality control: GD&T, first article inspection, scanner vs. CMM, and automated inspection.
A coordinate measuring machine touches a handful of points and reports a number. A 3D scanner captures millions of points across the entire surface, then asks a harder question: which…
Quality teams are being asked to inspect more parts, to tighter tolerances, with the same or fewer people. Automated 3D inspection quality control, running optical scanning, alignment, and GD&T evaluation…
For medical device manufacturers, an inspection report is not just a quality record. It is evidence. When an FDA investigator or a notified body auditor asks how you verified that…
Ask three quality engineers whether they should buy a coordinate measuring machine or a 3D scanner, and you’ll get three different answers, usually shaped by whatever technology they already own.…
A first article inspection is where a new part program proves it can actually make the drawing. For aerospace and defense suppliers, the FAI is also the document that survives…
When “close enough” becomes a workaround, the real cost isn’t the filler — it’s every decision made on bad data. There’s a version of problem-solving that looks like progress: a…
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