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Tracking the Automotive Industry Real-Time

Tracking the Automotive Industry Real-Time

The Automotive industry is the second-largest market for Laser Trackers after the Aerospace industry. The Laser Tracker has become a critical measuring technology utilized both during the introduction of new models into ever-increasingly automated assembly plants, and as a tool to maintain process …

LK Launch Contract CMM Inspection Service

LK Launch Contract CMM Inspection Service

Located in their new North American Technical Center, LK Metrology has built a new CMM measurement services department for performing contract dimensional inspection using the latest metrology software with state-of-the-art multi-sensor technology applied to the newest LK Metrology CMM …

CMM Professionals – Certification Programs Launched

CMM Professionals – Certification Programs Launched

The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the eminent membership association for today’s industrial measurement workforce, has announced the launch of the industry’s first Level-One and Level-Two Certifications for traditional coordinate measuring machine (CMM) professionals.CMM Operators can earn …

Custom Studio Gets Its Claws Into 3D Scanning

Custom Studio Gets Its Claws Into 3D Scanning

Before West Coast Customs unleashed this beast upon the world, the Black Panther Lexus started life as a Lexus LC 500 like any other. But that was about to change. When Marvel contacted them about the plan to transform the Lexus into a car that would astonish moviegoers east to west, West Coast …

API Offers Tracker Rental & Rent to Own Programs

API Offers Tracker Rental & Rent to Own Programs

API has announced the launch of its Laser Tracker rental program. The program allows manufacturers to gain access to API’s benchmark RADIAN laser tracker to perform specific measurements, alignments and calibration tasks or overcome periods of bottleneck for its own portable measurement equipment. …

Maintaining Confidence in Laser Tracker Performance

Maintaining Confidence in Laser Tracker Performance

Laser trackers have been widely used in industry for over two decades. From their original design in the late 1980’s, trackers have been well accepted and adopted into the metrology workspace. The combination of industry needs and R&D innovations has created a recipe for some really cool …

Circular Geometry Inspection Platform Aids Rotor Measurement and Assembly

Circular Geometry Inspection Platform Aids Rotor Measurement and Assembly

RPI UK has installed two integrated Rotor Measurement and Assembly Platforms (iMAPs) at Atlanta-based Delta Airlines; the Rolls-Royce approved MRO facility. RPI is a world leading specialist developer and manufacturer of precision positioning devices for high accuracy rotary and angular inspection …

KREON Launch Improved Precision Portable Measuring Arm

KREON Launch Improved Precision Portable Measuring Arm

With the new ACE+ portable arm CMM, KREON is supporting evolving client expectations as their performance requirements are increasing. The new model arm is based on the architecture and functionalities of the KREON ACE arm, which is recognized for its robustness, reliability and high engineering …

LK Metrology Launches Portable Measuring Arms

LK Metrology Launches Portable Measuring Arms

LK Metrology which has been manufacturing static co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs) in the UK since 1963, has for the first time diversified into the supply of 3D articulating arm metrology systems, otherwise known as portable arms, with the launch of a range of 24 machines called the FREEDOM …

Hexagon Launches Entry-level Optical CMM

Hexagon Launches Entry-level Optical CMM

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced the launch of Captura, an entry-level optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM) that offers an intuitive and cost-effective solution for multisensor measurement of small to medium parts.Captura supports measurements using vision …

Retrofitted 5 Axis CMM Delivers Dramatic Inspection Time Improvements

Retrofitted 5 Axis CMM Delivers Dramatic Inspection Time Improvements

After losing its 3-axis co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM) to a devastating flood, Precision Machine & Auto Components (PMAC) had to act fast to find an alternative solution. Renishaw’s REVO 5-axis measurement system not only helped return a water-damaged CMM to operation, it also reduced cycle …

Measuring Large Fabrications and Castings on the Production Floor

Measuring Large Fabrications and Castings on the Production Floor

The large machined casting and fabrication manufacturing sector, which encompasses ship building, heavy machinery, wind energy and numerous others, must precisely measure 3D part features and their geometrical relationship to other critical features, integral in large physical parts. Over the past …

3D CMM Measurement Improves Productivity 4 Fold

3D CMM Measurement Improves Productivity 4 Fold

A leader in aeronautical subcontracting, Figeac Aero is involved in almost all ongoing civil aeronautical programs. The company has been continuously growing since it was founded in 1989. With a strategy built around performance and investment into the industrial machinery, Figeac Aero keeps one …

Mitutoyo Invest in CMM Rotary Tables

Mitutoyo Invest in CMM Rotary Tables

RPI UK, a specialist developer and manufacturer of precision positioning devices for high accuracy rotary and angular inspection systems, has welcomed Mitutoyo as a new customer following the Japanese manufacturers decision to invest in 10 rotary tables.Mitutoyo, one of the world’s leading …

Portable Arm 3D White Light Scanner Launched

Portable Arm 3D White Light Scanner Launched

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has launched the RS-SQUARED Area Scanner for the Absolute Arm – pairing for the first time an area scanner with a portable measurement arm. Designed for high-speed scanning of simple shapes and surfaces, the RS-SQUARED can measure parts faster than …