One of the biggest issues in the fiber optic industry is supply chain friction. Manufacturers send their connectors to cable assembly houses, which are then installed in data centers and other locations where they will be re-inspected many times throughout their lifespan. Parts are often returned to manufacturers, because of permanent failures during a customer’s inspection.
Supply chain friction that arises from faulty or returned product occurs for a variety of reasons:
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Have any plans 7-9 of November? The FiberQA team will be heading to New Orleans for the Avionics and Vehicle Fiber-Optics And Photonics Conference. Join us in the Big Easy, where we will be presenting a paper based on the critical study, "Measuring Fiber End Face Inspection Microscope Reproducibility using Chrome on Glass Artifacts," written by Charles DiSaverio (Lockheed), Chris J. Wilson (Cinch), and Doug Wilson (FiberQA). Join us on November 9, at 11:30 AM for the presentation. Can't make it to AVFOP this year? That's OK, you'll be able to read a brief overview and download the paper once it has been presented. Check out the full session schedule online for more info.
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From our sales team at FiberQA, we want to thank everyone who stopped by our booth last week at ECOC. Every show we attend is unique, and ECOC is no different. This year's show was held in Gothenburg, Sweden and boasted nearly 6,000 visitors and delegates from 24 countries around the world.
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Our North American distributor, Fiber Optic Center, wrote an excellent blog recently about the comparison of manual fiber scopes vs. automated fiber scopes. In FOC author Chris Rollinson's words, "'automation' is the holy grail of the fiber optic industry." Chris goes on to explain how FiberQA's FastMT fiber scope can improve upon the quality control process during inspection of fiber optic cable connectors in cable assembly houses.
At FiberQA, we make automation our businees. We believe that manual fiber scopes are the past, while fast, reliable, automated fiber scopes are the future.
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One of the biggest advantages to having a FastMT automated fiberscope, is the ability to customize the settings and parameters of your inspection protocol. Whether you have one system or several, a small team of operators or dozens, you simply have to input the desired parameters and you can rest assured that every connector will be inspected consistently and reliably, regardless of whom is operating which system.
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The jet-lag and daylight savings time change has worn off, but we're still riding high after last week's IEEE Photonics Society hosted AVFOP show in Long Beach, CA! We want to thank the coordinators for putting together yet another exciting and beneficial event. We were able to showcase products and systems to a targeted group of important industry-influencers in the military and aerospace markets.
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