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Credible Inspection

Inspection Technolgies for quality control of Bosch products are a unique branch within the Bosch Corporate Research. High-Tech products need reliable and high-precisioned Inspection Technologies and sometimes even the technolgies themselves become products and are brought to market.

Sophisticated Inspection Techniques Ensure High Quality
An extensive repertoire of diagnostic techniques enables Bosch researchers to subject components and materials to the most thorough testing imaginable ...

Ultrasound Inspection Goes Deeper than the Surface
Two key variables matter in the choice of an inspection technique: its precision, i.e. the resolution that distinguishes even the smallest structures; and its depth of ...

Weighing Pharmaceuticals with X-Rays
Doctors use X-rays to examine body parts; engineers use them to check the “innards” of components. Now Bosch researchers have developed their own new X-ray based product. They found a way to use ...

Optical Sensor is Shining a Light on Shapes and Sizes
Bosch, in collaboration with industrial partners, has developed the WhitePoint optical scanning system, which measures the shape of steel, copper and ...

Former Issues

02/2006 | Data Bus FlexRay

Plenty of Traffic in Vehicles’ Central Nervous Systems
FlexRay: Data Bus with a Future
Testing for Series Production

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01/2006 | Personal assistant for drivers

Networked Systems Improve Comfort and Safety
Sooner, Faster, Safer
Cars Get Their Own Language

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02/2005 | New technologies reducing fuel consumption and emissions

Perfect Combustion, Minimal Emissions
Controlling an Engine's Emissions Levels
Filling Up with Synthetic Fuels?

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01/2005 | Digital models and decentralized development

Digital Models Up to Series Production
Cooperation without Borders
Down to the Details

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04/2004 |Airflow sounds in the wind tunnel

Aeroacoustics: the Whispering Wind
Stepping on the Gas in the Wind Tunnel
Quiet please

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03/2004 | Permanent connections

The Radiant World of Precision Mechanics
Welding with Building Blocks
Lasers Also Used to Join Plastics
Forever in a Tight Spot

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02/2004 | Advances in Vehicle Navigation

Traffic Pilots Come on Board
Steering Clear of Urban Jams
Adaptive Control Concepts

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01/2004 | Plastics for all kinds of applications

Interconnecting in Three Dimensions
Merging the Worlds of Machine and Simulation
Withstanding High Levels of Stress

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04/2003 | Image processing and its applications

Cameras Roll for Comfort and Safety
Automatic Image Processing with an Eye Open for Trouble
The Untiring Eye

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03/2003 | Researchers zero in on sounds

“I See Something You Only Hear”
The Laser Is Going Places
Acoustic Researchers Are Using Lasers as Microphones

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02/2003 | Integrated Manufacturing as a Success Factor

Production in the Magic Triangle
Hard Shell, Tough Heart
Coming Clean: The “Dry” Factory

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01/2003 | Sensors and Microsystems Technology

Revolution under the Hood
Quality Gets a Life Sentence
Highly Porous Silicon Disintegrates Like Soapsuds

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04/2002 | Multimedia Systems in Automobiles

More Comfort with Bluetooth
A Multimedia Offensive for the Automobile of Tomorrow
Giant Step for Software Developers

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03/2002 | Top Quality in Production

Anatomy of an Injector
One Picture is Worth a Thousand Measurements
Profound Insight
Versatile Method of Measurement

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02/2002 | Computer Modeling of New Products

Smooth Ride for Better Products
Tricks of the Trade in Fluid Mechanics Research
The Finer Points of Cooling

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01/2002 | On the Road to the Digital Factory

Virtually Perfect Production
Planning the Works with the Computer
Machine Tools in Top Form

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03/2001 | Made-to-Measure Materials

Putting Materials Together
Hard Coatings for Highly Stressed Surfaces
X-Ray Light on Coating Structures

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02/2001 | Studying Combustion Problems

Looking into the Black Box
Sophisticated Fuel Injection Techniques Cut Consumption
Regenerating Particle Filters

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01/2001 | Future Manufacturing Technology

Lead-Free Connections
The Laser As a Flexible Manufacturing Tool
Precision in Volume Production

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Editorial

Florian Bessler
Project Manager Non-Destructive Testing, Corporate Research and Advance Engineering

Top Testing Technology
Production and quality measurement technologies at Bosch are designed to maintain the demanding quality standards of our hightechnology products. Dimensional measurement technology continues to gain in importance for inspections dealing with increasingly smaller tolerances — often in the range below one micrometer. No material defects ...

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