In heavy fabrication environments, quality inspection often involves large welded structures with multiple features that must be checked against engineering requirements. Accessing the correct reference information, verifying structural details, and documenting findings consistently can become especially challenging when inspection is performed directly in the welding or production area.

Metallic, highly reflective surfaces are among the most challenging objects to inspect in machine vision applications. Reflections obscure details, defects often only become apparent from certain angles, and the quality of manual visual inspections varies throughout the working day.

MAFO Systemtechnik AG, a specialist in contract manufacturing and integrated production processes, has introduced Visometry’s Twyn augmented reality (AR) solution for visual quality inspection. The technology enables employees to compare physical components directly with their CAD data, helping the company reduce inspection times, identify more deviations and simplify quality documentation.

Quality and inspection specialists on the production floor apply Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) for new parts, which includes evaluating manufacturing capabilities, identifying and managing potential risks, and ensuring control over critical product features.

The company invested in a bridge-type Altera C 15.9.7 CMM from LK Metrology, together with the supplier’s CAMIO 2026 software. The quality department at DWS uses the CMM to verify dimensional accuracy before components proceed to production or spares are dispatched to customers, providing confidence that every component conforms to specification.

Highly dynamic X-ray technology reveals what happens inside large battery cells in fractions of a second under load – accelerating the development of safer next-generation cells for the European automotive industry.

Conmed Labmet, based in Mexico, is developing a new generation of automated dimensional inspection systems designed to address one of the most persistent challenges facing automotive and other high-volume manufacturers: the rapid measurement of large components.

Siemens Energy is advancing its digital transformation in quality assurance by integrating SuPAR, an Augmented Reality (AR)-based inspection solution, into selected visual inspection and quality control processes.

For over 25 years, Primary Designs has been at the forefront of high-performance exhaust design and manufacture, supplying precision-engineered systems to Formula One teams, hypercar manufacturers and specialist automotive customers. The company has built its reputation on delivering lightweight, high-quality exhaust solutions where precision, craftsmanship and repeatability are essential. 

In the OCTInline project, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS have developed an innovative testing system. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can be used to non-destructively detect defects in seals in real time during the packaging process, with a resolution in the micrometer range.

UK based FeTu Limited is the company behind a novel positive displacement low-velocity turbine that combines the characteristics of radial, axial and reciprocal designs into a single unit built with just two moving parts.

The production of carrier films for battery components in electromobility places high demands on the surface quality of the rollers. Stray light sensors from OptoSurf make it possible to characterize roughness, roundness and waviness directly on the roller surface over the entire surface.