Metrology and Quality News – Online Magazine

Have you ever wondered what happens when your Laser Tracker is warming up or why it needs to at all?  Watch as API discuss the need for warm-up time and

Modern truck engines are produced at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Mannheim. The requirements for ideal engine properties include extremely tight tolerances for the decisive dimensions of the engine blocks. Thanks

Racing places high demands on engine makers – also regarding measuring technology. At its Bruck site in Austrian Pankl Racing Systems therefore replaced almost manual measuring equipment with ZEISS measuring

For industrial computed tomography (CT) in foundries, mainly systems based on the principle of fan beam or cone beam tomography are offered. Baker Hughes Inspection Technologies offers with its speed|scan

To upgrade the inspection capabilities of its measurement laboratory, the quality department at the Chassis & Safety division of automotive equipment manufacturer Continental, located in Veszpren, Hungary has invested in

A professional racing team needed to find an effective way to reverse engineer high-performance auto parts within tight deadlines, making modifications as needed, in designs as well as materials. The

Non-contact laser scanners from Micro-Epsilon are being used to quickly and reliably recognize if all the beer bottles are present and the correct type in returned crates. Beer bottles that

A leading Formula 1 team were suffering from long part set-up times before machining complex aero dynamic components for their car, such as the chassis, nose cone or front wing.

For more than fifty years, Tri-State Plastics has been honing its skills in thermoforming, CNC machining, die cutting, assembling and fabricating plastic parts for government and military applications. A restructuring

Precision hard turning is a key production process in the machine tool bearings unit at myonic GmbH in Leutkirch im Allgäu, Germany. Pieces are directly turned to the final dimension

Any company buying a used machine tool needs to be certain of its ability to deliver the accuracy demanded by its manufacturing process. For many companies, pre-purchase condition-checking by a

To enable the efficient completion of a challenging project in a nuclear plant, leading UK engineering and steel service provider, Watson Towers recently purchased a 3.5 meter capacity version of

A manufacturer of deep-draw dies and die-cutting tools for the automotive sector, Aggressive Tool & Die, Inc. uses its Kreon Ace portable measuring arm in tool development and quality control.