The concept of quality control has been expanded in Japanese industries from the activities in the narrow field of manufacturing and inspection into the company-wide activities. Assurance of quality of the manufactured products is the most essential function, and, above all, the assurance of safety and reliability of the products is of basic importance. In order to assure the quality of manufactured products, the activities of designing quality and testing should be improved; testing the reliability of the manufactured products and the improvement of the quality of design are closely related. Along with the rise of productivity in the manufacturing processes by means of mechanization, computer control, etc., on the other hand, the prompt feed-back of data of the manufactured products to the manufacturing process is indispensable for the appropriate process control.
The measurements of bath temperature and carbon content of molten steel by means of “sub-lance”during the process of LD oxygen converter and the employment of high-frequency induction heating dilatometer to improve the welding characteristics of alloy steel were described as the examples of application of thermal analysis in the quality control activities.
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