Q-Cast

Quality spoke with Thomas Parker, automotive market sales manager for INFICON, about the role of leak testing in additive manufacturing as the industry grows. Parker also discusses new applications in automotive, and the importance of leak testing as HVAC manufacturers begin using flammable substitutes for high-global warming potential refrigerants. 

Tim Wilkinson, applications engineer at Physicom, talks with Quality about the exhibitor experience, themes, and trends of this year’s show.

Will Healy, strategic marketing manager at Balluff, shares his thoughts on the rise of predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0. 

Quality spoke with James Bennett, the chief technical officer at the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), about certification, STEM education initiatives to recruit the next generation of NDT, and the importance of ASNT volunteers. ASNT celebrates 75 years this year. For more information, visit www.asnt.org.   

Sponsored ByGeorge Schuetz, director of Precision Gages at Mahr Federal, explains how new wireless technology has affected wireless gaging.    

Charles J. Hellier has been active in the technology of nondestructive testing and related quality and inspection fields since 1957. Here he talks with Quality's managing editor, Michelle Bangert, about the importance of training.

 In honor of World Quality Month, we spoke to James Rooney, ASQ Past Chairman of the Board of Directors 2013, for his take on quality around the world. For more information, read the ASQ Speaking of Quality column.

 If you want to get ahead, Quality columnist Jim Smith has thirteen tactics you can use, no matter where you work. We spoke to Jim about advice he received early in his career, tips for others in the field, and how Michael Jordan relates to the quality profession. For more information, read his “13 Steps to Get Ahead” feature in our September issue, his Face of Quality column, or his Jim Gem’s blog.

Quality recently spoke to the University of California-Berkeley’s David Dornfeld about how green manufacturing relates to quality. Dornfeld, a manufacturing engineering professor, recently edited a book on green manufacturing fundamentals. Here, he explains why it matters and discusses the increased attention given to manufacturing today. 

Michael Molnar became the first chief manufacturing officer in NIST history last August. Here, Molnar, the chief manufacturing officer at NIST and the director of the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, explains some of the issues in industry today and why he’s excited about students in manufacturing. 

Jesse Morse went into his first calibration lab in 1964. Quality met with Morse, president of Morse Metrology and longtime NCSL member, at the NCSL conference in Sacramento this year to discuss metrology trends. He explains the changes he’s seen over the years, and why he’s worried about the future of the industry.

Sponsored ByIn an interview with Quality magazine, Otto Geiseman, business unit manager of Carl Zeiss IMT's Junker & Partner Detroit, describes how fixturing technology can help readers, and explains the fixturing market today. www.carlzeiss.com/metrology