Articles

Jim Stertz, Quality/Technology Director at Lowell, wrote this piece on automating the PMM/CMM using a Motoman robot and configuring the entire system in-house.

This article, entitled “Achieve Higher Mechanical Precision with Profile Tolerancing” appeared in Quality Magazine. Dr. Hetland of the International Institute of GD&T and Dan Goldman of Honeywell in the most comprehensive article yet, address profile tolerancing and its advantages over linear tolerancing. Solid models and test data provided by Lowell.

Lowell’s custom tooling process was featured in the March issue of Manufacturing Engineering Magazine published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME). The article entitled “Improving Medical Devices at Lowell” outlined our process from tool design and fabrication to production.

Lowell’s automated manufacturing process was featured in the Medical Manufacturing 2014 issue of Manufacturing Engineering Magazine.

Critical feature confirmation (CFC) is a leading-edge method to figure out which device features are critical and which aren’t.