New Error Proofing Brochure Available From Balluff
FLORENCE, KY (July 2005) - Balluff has released a new brochure in support of error proofing, an innovative production quality improvement technique that is rapidly being adopted by leading manufacturers in North America.
Error proofing consists of sensor-driven quality checks - custom designed for each manufacturing process - that prevent a part from being made incorrectly. Using this methodology, sensors no longer merely report that an assembly step is complete or that a production pallet is in a certain location. Now they verify that a part is being manufactured correctly at each stage of the process - and prevent the process from continuing if it is not. When error proofing techniques are implemented, finished products from a line are automatically within specification and ready for the customer, without need for further quality checks.
Error proofing can also protect expensive production equipment, automatically identify production sub-assemblies, and protect operators from dangerous conditions on the line. A good error proofing program will increase productivity, as well as a company's chances to prosper in today's highly competitive manufacturing environment, by improving product quality, and reducing costs and scrap.
Copies of the brochure, showing how to get an error proofing program started are available by e-mailing Tom Draper at Tom.Draper@Balluff.com
Balluff Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Balluff GmbH & Co., Neuhausen, Germany, is a leading manufacturer of a wide range of inductive, optical, capacitive and magnetic sensors as well as linear position transducers and ID systems. Balluff products for OEM and factory floor solutions are used to control, regulate, automate, assemble, position, and monitor manufacturing, assembly, and packaging sequences for industries including metalworking, automotive, plastics, material handling, wood processing, aerospace, electrical, and electronics.
Editors: please contact Tom Draper, Manager, Marketing Programs (1 800 543-8390) for clarifications and additional information.
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Tom Draper
Marketing Programs Manager
Balluff Inc.
8125 Holton Drive
Florence, KY 41042
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