Make Quality Control Easier

As engineers, our design ideas live and die by their ease of production and time to market. Faster production with lower probabilities of defects give manufacturing firms huge advantages over competitors. While having the best engineers for design and quality inspection is an obvious enough recommendation for firms looking to excel, providing them with tools to design more quickly and accurately and to QA products with laser precision practically eliminates the possibility for manmade error in the production process – because if there is one thing we know as engineers, it is that machines are generally better at the jobs that we do.

From the perspective of design, employing technology to facilitate reverse engineering vastly reduces the time between design and manufacturing. Because it is far easier to design without being beholden to specifications, being able to build a widget prototype without abiding to any technical restrictions is invaluable to companies looking to get products through the design phase and to market much faster. Engineers can simply build the part they need, have it scanned, and tweak the specs in a 3d environment before creating a final prototype to make sure the design works.

After a part or product is proven to work, production begins. In cases where precision is paramount, or where human hands are assembling, welding, molding, measuring, etc, inspection is an absolute necessity, but human eyes are often too imprecise or even too slow to check intricate, complex, or small parts for flaws, and manual measurement is always too slow. By engaging in contract inspection services, manufacturers can have their products QA’d by state-of-the-art 3d scanning machinery that will ensure that all parts are built to specification or within some small margin of error (where it is allowable). The same provider of these services might also offer consultation on how to improve accuracy in production to save on the expense of defective finished goods.

By employing machinery to do two core functions of engineering and manufacturing – design and inspection – firms can have greater confidence in their abilities to be competitive. The reverse engineering that is made possible by 3d scanning guarantees conformity of a design to a prototype while contract inspection services ensure that no mistakes are too small to miss and that customers get widgets that are built to spec and that will function as well as they were engineered to.