Smart Assembly Requires Smart Sensors
Manual insertion of glass into vehicle bodies is labor intensive and imprecise, with the opportunity for body damage and glass breakage leading to significant safety risks to assembly operators. The alternative of robotic insertion techniques are complicated because the vehicle body location is not precise requiring vision guidance to transform …
ASF Metrology to Acquire Nikon Metrology CMM Business
Nikon Metrology has announced that ASF Metrology intends to acquire Nikon Metrology’s coordinate measuring machines (CMM) business. The closing of the transaction is expected to take place in about 2 months. Nikon Metrology’s CMM activities, with offices in Belgium, France, Germany, the UK and the USA, represent approx. 25 % of the total …
‘CMM To GO’ – First Portable CNC Coordinate Measuring Machine
The zCAT is heralded as the worlds first truly portable CNC Coordinate Measuring machine (CMM) and offers a compact self-contained measuring unit that fundamentally differs from traditional CMM design and operation. Invented by Homer Eaton, inventor and pioneer of portable arm CMMs (PCMM), the zCAT portable CMM brings coordinate metrology …
New FARO Design ScanArm 2.0 Improves Product Design Workflow
FARO has introduced the next generation FARO Design ScanArm® 2.0 specifically designed to address the most demanding challenges and requirements faced by product design and product engineering professionals. The FARO Design ScanArm 2.0 offers an exceptional combination of flexibility, reliability, value and performance through best in class accuracy, resolution and ergonomics …
Creaform Launches Productivity Station Delivering Fast Automated Dimensional Inspection
Creaform has launched its R-Series Productivity Station and the R-Series Autocalibration Kit. Both are key upgrades to its robotic metrology automated dimensional measurement solution, which offers an efficient alternative to traditional shop-floor CMMs. The MetraSCAN 3D R-Series solution enables manufacturing companies to combine both optical measurements and industrial automation, to ensure reliability …
Portable Digital Magnifier Provides Inspection and Documentation
Vision Engineering, a global supplier of ergonomically designed stereo microscopes, digital inspection and non-contact measurement systems, has introduced Camβ (CamBeta) a new digital inspection magnifier for portable inspection and documentation. Camβ is a handheld inspection device suitable for a wide range of applications and provides magnification up to 20x, stores …
Information Automation at the Touch of a Button
Manufacturers are in continual pursuit of process optimization, meaning that factories need to be more flexible and more responsive. To be competitive, manufacturers must offer increasingly customized, bespoke products – everybody wants something unique. However, productivity cannot be sacrificed to achieve this: costs cannot …
GOM ARAMIS SRX 3D Measurement System Provides Dynamic Evaluation
The ARAMIS SRX from GOM is a 3D measurement system for dynamic evaluation of 3D coordinates, 3D displacement and surface strain. It comprises the latest 12-megapixel camera technology capturing up to 2000 images per second, the sensor is especially designed for rapid testing applications and comes with an additional setup …
Multi-Point Profile 3D Scanners Are Smart, Flexible and User Configurable
LMI Technologies (LMI) has announced the official launch of its Gocator 200 Series of modular multi-point scanners, the latest addition to the Gocator line of smart, all-in-one 3D sensors for material optimization and 100% quality control. The new Gocator 200 line of rugged multi-point profile 3D scanners provides a smart, flexible, and …
South-East USA Receives Dedicated Metrology Solutions Expo
South-East USA, an important and growing manufacturing region, is getting its own Metrology Exhibition on 2-3 May 2018. The Metrology Solutions EXPO will allow manufacturing professionals throughout the southeast to attend the TD Convention Center in Greenville, South Carolina and experience the very latest metrology technology from industry leading suppliers. Metrology …