One Language We Should All Speak – Quality
The IAQG, International Aerospace Quality Group has a wonderful site loaded with information and tools to help us all in our journey to achieving the best quality products and services possible. One of my favorite sections is the IAQG Dictionary under publications, developing and understanding a common language is key in moving forward. In fact [...]
15 Decision Support Tools – Making a Smart Choice
We know how important the decision is to choose and implement software into your manufacturing operations. That is why we have developed the 'Boss Kit" this is a series of documents to augment your decision making process. Below is a list of available Boss Kit components. Visit the Boss Kit page to get what you [...]
Manufacturers Increase Capital Spend
Here are some interesting factoids from a recent SME article: 68% Believe US economy is growing, this indicator has been above 60% for 6 quarters Historically high levels of liquidity are enabling manufacturers to strengthen operations, add talent and improve technology. R&D spending plans are the highest they have been in 5 quarters. 77% expect [...]
3D Module Feature-Benefit Guide Introduction
Here is an introduction to the kind of information you can get from our brand new Feature-Benefit Competitive Guide. This is a great decision making support tool. Click to download the DISCUS Software Feature-Benefit Competitive Guide
News Bites in Quality Engineering
Enjoy this curated compilation of news and insights around quality and quality engineering. CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machines) are essential to quality engineering. This article discusses the 'fixtures' part of quality control inspection. (Caution: email registration required to read the full article) Data in, Safety Out - New software predicts when and where serious traffic accidents are most [...]
The Low Rate of Software Adoption – Why?
We are a software tool provider for our particular market, but we have concerns about the low rate of software adoption within the organizations both prospects and customers we serve. This post will attempt to briefly provide a diagnosis and a bit of prescriptive advice. Why the Low Rate of Software Adoption? Too much focus [...]
August DISCUS Software Training Schedule
Do you need some free training to get you up and running on our DISCUS Software in less than 2 hours? Do you have questions about features that you have access to, but you might not even know they are there? Our 1 hour training sessions will be an effective tool for you in not [...]
August DISCUS Webinar Schedule-Sign up is easy
Do you need help with preparing for your AS9102 First Article inspections? Do you spend too many hours ballooning or marking up drawing prints and creating the corresponding inspection forms? If so,attend this webinar to see how DISCUS; the ballooning and inspection sheet setup tool, can be used to save you time and see the [...]
New Feature/Benefit Competitive Guide
Are you in the decision making process headed toward selecting software to help you with your quality engineering challenges? If so then this guide may help, we cover all 5 of our modules, desktop, OCR, Results, CMM, 3D and Planner, we outline over 55 different features and discuss each of the related benefits and how [...]
Enter Revision Information on the Document Properties
If you add a drawing to DISCUS and forget to indicate that it is Metric or if you forgot to include the revision, you can easily do so. With the drawing displayed, right-click on the drawing and select Drawing Properties. In that box, select Unit of Measure and the revision.