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The New York City Yacht Club’s American Magic team has once again choosen Creaform’s 3D measurement technologies to gear up for the next America’s Cup. 

The Ensenso C camera addresses current challenges in the automation and robotics industry providing both 3D and RGB colour information.

Fisher Smith Limited was tasked with the challenge of designing a custom vision system for the 360° inspection a plastic surgical tool.

In a first, researchers have observed how lithium ions flow through a battery interface, which could help engineers optimize the material’s design.

One of the largest construction screw manufacturers in the USA has added multiple VisionLab 3D Fastener Gauging Systems from General Inspection to streamline their first part inspection processes. 

Mitutoyo’s new generation Crysta-Apex-V CNC CMMs deliver advances in accuracy, speed and versatility, not only for today’s inspection challenges

The installed Metrios measuring system allowed us to reduce the amount of time it took to measure an individual part when we’re doing incoming inspection by at least 90%.

The challenge was to measure both sides of the Audi e-tron BIW in a narrow space, with one robot, one sensor, and one turntable.

Sewtec integrated the TM-X5000 cameras to high-precision linear stages that move horizontally so the bottle sits equidistance between the two sensors.

To ensure a perfect fitting of the different sections of the torus, AsorCAD used the Creaform MetraSCAN 3D scanner for the toroidal components and the MaxSHOT 3D photogrammetry system for the large-scale parts.

Artec Leo’s offers 3D point accuracy of up to 0.1 mm, 3D resolution of up to 0.2 mm, and data acquisition speeds of up to 35 million points per second.

Using artificial intelligence, Audi analyzes around 1.5 million spot welds on 300 vehicles each shift at the Audi Neckarsulm site.

NEXOS 4.0 and the automated measurement cell significantly reduced the time taken for measurements, providing accurate and reliable data quickly.

API Radian Laser Tracker supported project by bringing equipment onsite to avoid component disassembly, measure the ‘as-found’ dimensions bearing boxes, shoes, wedges, and wear plates and reverse engineer a CAD model.

Bosch Car Multimédia specializes in the development and manufacture of electronic components for vehicle safety and dynamics, driver assistance, automated driving and car multimedia. The company uses the machine vision to improve the quality inspection of electronic components with deep learning methods.