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Introducing Verisurf 2024
Verisurf 2024 includes nearly one hundred new productivity workflows, enhancements, and additions. The software empowers users with a universal solution that supports all 3D metrology applications, complemented with expert technical support, training services, and application consulting for seamless integration, optimal process improvement, and better resource utilization.
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Meet API’s New and Improved SwivelCheck!
SwivelCheck utilizes a servo-driven motor in conjunction with an electronic level and precision rotary encoder to measure multiple parameters in a single set-up. Used in conjunction with the API XD Laser SwivelCheck can measure table wobble on horizontal rotary tables.
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In-Line Scanning Metrology System Exhibits 160-Fold Increase In Image Acquisition Speed
Nearfield Instruments has launched Lightning Mode, a new feature for QUADRA, the semiconductor industry’s highest-throughput, in-line atomic force microscopy (AFM) metrology system for advanced semiconductor devices.
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3DViewStation Supports 3D CAD Collaboration With Suppliers
The latest KISTERS 3DViewStation helps manufacturing industry to simplify collaboration with suppliers and reduce costs. For this purpose, the 3D CAD models are made available online and visualized, commented on or discussed in real time.
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Mitutoyo Releases New Surface Measure Non-Contact Line-Laser Sensor
Mitutoyo America has announced the release of the first non-contact line-laser sensor in the Mitutoyo Surface Measure product line.
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CAM Assist AI Plug-In Now Available For Mastercam
CloudNC has announced that its CAM Assist solution, which uses AI to generate machining strategies for 3 and 3+2 axis CNC machines, is now available for Mastercam users.
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Precise Sensor Technologies Oversee E-Mobility Production at BMW
Leuze laser diffuse reflection light scanners also monitor the unloading of the cells from a GLT into a module line from Thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering.
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Smart Technology Analytics Helps Aerospace Manufacturer Increase Productivity 23 Percent
SPS Technologies, a world-leading specialist fasteners, assemblies and precision components manufacturer for the aerospace sector has increased productivity by 23%, which equates to 273 additional productive hours per week across 15 machines, after utilising smart technology from FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics.
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Precision Partnership Elevates Battery Component Manufacturing
IntriPlex Technologies, a global leader in precision metal-stamping solutions, continues to push the boundaries of manufacturing excellence by integrating Nikon Metrology’s cutting-edge iNEXIV VMA-2520 video measuring system into its California facility.
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Defect Inspection of Indexable Inserts with Machine Vision and AI
A flagship project by automation and measurement technology specialist Xactools from Germany demonstrates how artificial intelligence can help visual inspection make quantum leaps. The medium-sized company has developed a fully automated handling and inspection system for a global manufacturer of indexable inserts based in Scandinavia.
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Holistic Quality Control In Additive Manufacturing Using ZEISS 3D ManuFACT
As always, when a new technology emerges in a market, there are always questions. One of them is quality assurance. Jens Heyder points to a monitor that shows two images taken with the ZEISS Axio Imager light microscope at 50x magnification. On the left you can see a section of a good component. There are no large defects visible, only small pores.
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Advanced Sensor Technology Generates 3D Scatter Plot Driving Autonomous Production Transportation
The driverless platform truck, with its electric drive train, will handle the internal transport of press tools and steel blanks for the press lines autonomously, with a payload of up to 55 tonnes. Using state-of-the-art sensor technology, the transport system navigates accurately and fully autonomously through the production facilities of the Regensburg press plant at a speed of four kilometres per hour – without a driver.
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Audi Sport Accelerates Design and Production Processes With Digitally Produced Tools and Fixtures
UltiMaker, a leader in 3D printing, and trinckle, a provider of design automation software, have announced a case study showcasing the impact that 3D printing and design automation solutions have on Audi Sport’s manufacturing workflow.
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Detection of Latent Insulation Defects: Key To Guarantee Long Term Traction E-Motor Reliability
The transition underway in the automotive sector, from internal combustion engine to electric powertrain, is producing important changes in the criteria used for quality and process control in the production of electric motors. As electric motors become ubiquitous in automotive applications, ensuring their long-term reliability is paramount.
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Non-Contact Metrology System Delivers Unrivalled Quality, Precision and Usability
Scantron Industrial Products has announced it has completed the build phase of its latest flagship product. Proscan Magnum is an industry-leading non-contact surface and shape measurement system especially suited to the metals industry.
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Agricultural Equipment Manufacturer Reaps The Benefits of 3D Scanning
When we were looking for a more suitable 3D measurement system, one of our biggest fears was that we would invest in a solution that would be overtaken by other technologies in the near future.
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Mahr Develop Gear Measuring Station For Double-Flank Roller Test
Mahr MWF has developed and built a measuring machine for double-flank gear roll testing to meet the individual requirements of a customer. This machine tests the form feature concentricity deviation Fr on the internal toothing of gears. The noise development of the subsequent gearbox can then be predicted on the basis of the measurement results. This is an important aspect, particularly in electromobility.
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BMW Expands 3D-Printed Customised Robot Grippers Usage
Additive manufacturing processes have been used on a daily basis for a long time at BMW Group Plant Landshut. For many years, these have included moulds for the manufacturing of aluminium cylinder heads, which are printed three-dimensionally using the sand casting process. Here, sand is repeatedly applied in thin layers and stuck together using binders.
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Machine Vision Reliably Checks Bottle Cap Imprints
Machine vision offers enormous advantages for quality control applications. High accuracy and speed as well as high flexibility and availability are important for practical use. K&S Anlagenbau GmbH has implemented such an application for the beverage industry with the help of the consulting company Computer Vision Solutions. In this application the machine vision software MVTec HALCON is used.
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AI-Assisted Solution Inspects Implant Coatings Automatically
More than 400,000 hip and knee prostheses are manufactured in Aarau each year. A large proportion of these are coated in five state-of-the-art vacuum chambers at temperatures of up to 20,000 degrees Celsius, either purely with titanium or with titanium and hydroxyapatite. The latter is a bone substitute substance that improves or stimulates the ingrowth of the bone follicles into the porous prosthetic surface.