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Hexagon Inaugurates Preferred Supplier Partnership With ITER

Hexagon Inaugurates Preferred Supplier Partnership With ITER

Hexagon has announced a new preferred supplier agreement with the renowned ITER nuclear fusion research project based in southern France. Under the agreement, Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division will formally become the main avenue of metrology support for the project as it enters the key …

Precise White Light Scanning Measures Gears Fast

Precise White Light Scanning Measures Gears Fast

Whereas the initial development stages of optical metrology by Klingelnberg were focused on applications used primarily in the lab, the solution now available is systematically oriented toward series application of cylindrical gear measurement. The primary advantage here is greater efficiency …

Extolling the Virtues of Shop Floor Inspection

Extolling the Virtues of Shop Floor Inspection

Recently launched by Aberlink, the Extol is a shop floor hardened CMM that not only performs rapid, accurate and repeatable inspections in the most challenging environmental conditions, but boasts an incredibly compact footprint – allowing the CMM to be positioned where it is most needed, on the …

Staying Competitive with Inline Quality Assurance

Staying Competitive with Inline Quality Assurance

Quality assurance is often a source of pain for decision-makers in manufacturing companies – a necessary evil that generates high costs without helping to improve the speed of production. This was an issue that Helmut Häckl, managing director of Schabmüller Automobiltechnik, was all too familiar …

Hexagon Launches Entry-Level Multisensor CMM

Hexagon Launches Entry-Level Multisensor CMM

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence has released a new multisensor coordinate measuring machine (CMM) that facilitates smart manufacturing by providing a cost-effective entry point into automated measurement. Fully compatible with a range of Hexagon smart technologies, the OPTIV Lite 3.2.2 is a …

Verisurf Software Improves Performance and Capabilities for FARO Arms

Verisurf Software Improves Performance and Capabilities for FARO Arms

Verisurf Software has supported every FARO portable metrology device since its first industrial articulated arm in 1995, and the first FARO Laser Tracker SI introduced in 2002.  Verisurf continues this commitment of support by announcing enhanced software features for all FARO portable arms. By …

Vision Engineering Expands LVC Video Measurement Range

Vision Engineering Expands LVC Video Measurement Range

Vision Engineering has broadened its range of ‘LVC’ automated video measurement systems with the addition of the LVC200, and higher specification ‘Plus’ variants. Ideal for measuring large components or multiple small components, quickly, easily and accurately, the LVC range offers faster …

Laser Tracker Integral to Mobile 5 Axis Smart Machining Processes

Laser Tracker Integral to Mobile 5 Axis Smart Machining Processes

As smart factory processes have improved over the last two decades, machine tool designs and processes have remained largely static. Their accuracies and efficiencies have improved at regular intervals, but many manufacturers have taken an “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” approach to …

Perfectly Planned Laser Tracker Target Points

Perfectly Planned Laser Tracker Target Points

In the same way that the primary survey network established in 2010 on site provided a global coordinate system for civil engineering works and the positioning of the buildings, the ITER metrology team has now developed a vast matrix of reference ‘targets,’ or fixed points, inside the Tokamak …

Surround Scanner Adds Dynamic Colormap Error Projections

Surround Scanner Adds Dynamic Colormap Error Projections

Polyrix is introducing dynamic colormap projection to its range of Surround 3D Scanners . The dynamic colormap projection comes as an upgrade to its patented ‘LiveInspection’ technology, whereby the calculated deviation color map is projected directly onto the inspected part using a surround array …

Premium Car Manufacturer Proves Exceptional Build Quality

Premium Car Manufacturer Proves Exceptional Build Quality

A premium UK car manufacturer needed a stringent quality control system to support efforts to improve the aesthetics of the car exterior. Manual gauges have been problematic as ensuring accuracy of measurement, is open to human error, and the audit trail of measurements is not secure. GapGun Pro2 …

FARO Launches Latest Laser Tracker 6DoF Probe

FARO Launches Latest Laser Tracker 6DoF Probe

FARO Technologies has announced its next generation Vantage Laser Tracker 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) Probe. The new 6Probe offers exceptional portability and is compatible with FARO Vantage S6 and VantageE6 Laser Trackers, enabling users to build, inspect and measure products faster and with …

X-Y Table Shortens Form Measurement Set-ups

X-Y Table Shortens Form Measurement Set-ups

Form metrology set-up and pre-alignment can take up a relatively large amount of time as each individual work-piece needs to be positioned precisely prior to measurement. This can lead to delays, especially when it comes to quality assurance for several work-pieces, or multiple measuring points. For …

Metrologic Group & DWFritz Announce Commercial and Technical Agreement

Metrologic Group & DWFritz Announce Commercial and Technical Agreement

Metrologic Group, the leading provider of Metrolog X4 software and DWFritz Automation, a leading global provider of high-precision automation and metrology solutions for advanced manufacturing, have announced a commercial and technical agreementThe DWFritz ZeroTouch is a high-speed, non-contact …

Inline Multi-Laser Scanning CMM

Inline Multi-Laser Scanning CMM

The val-IT Smart is a 3D inspection cell, from Dutch company SENSEIT, that uses multiple laser triangulation sensors to accurately measures components. The system is described by the company as perfect for validating large, complex parts such as castings and can be installed inline or operated as a …

Web Portal Performs Remote CMM Inspection Monitoring

Web Portal Performs Remote CMM Inspection Monitoring

Aimed at multinational organizations with factories worldwide but equally applicable to medium size companies having several production facilities in one country, a web-based platform has been introduced by coordinate measuring machine (CMM) manufacturer LK Metrology to help production departments …