Artec 3D has officially launched Artec Twins, a new platform for working with massive 3D environments at a previously impossible scale and speed. Artec 3D has spent twenty years building precision into 3D capture.
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Grayscale lithography has long enabled the fabrication of microstructures with continuously varying surface topographies in high surface quality. Now, UpNano GmbH from Vienna, Austria takes this principle into the third dimension. Its newly developed 3D Adaptive Resolution (3DAR) technology enables dynamic control of the printing voxel in all three spatial dimensions during 2-photon polymerization (2PP) 3D printing.
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Hexagon’s Portable Metrology Division has introduced HYPERSCAN SR, a fully wireless optical tracking 3D scanner that makes professional optical tracking more accessible. By combining a fully wireless workflow, simple operation, and dynamic tracking in a portable solution, it can be used directly on the shop floor, at supplier sites, or in the field.
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Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) has never lacked ambition. It can produce geometries that conventional manufacturing cannot, consolidate assemblies, reduce weight, enable new thermal and fluidic performance, and support more resilient supply chains. In sectors such as aerospace, defence, energy, medical, and advanced engineering, the argument for metal AM is already well understood.
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Automotive manufacturers need inspection tools that can keep pace with complex parts, demanding production schedules, and a wide range of surface finishes. The Quantum X FaroArm Series, with its scanning and probing abilities, helps teams improve inspection, reverse engineering, CAD comparison, and quality workflows.
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OMNIVISION has introduced two new global shutter CMOS image sensors aimed at the next generation of industrial machine vision, factory automation, intelligent transportation and robotics applications.
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An inspection plan inherited from revision A needs a clear starting point when revision B arrives. Fix the exact model pair, establish the controlling requirements, and document the responsible engineer’s decision before carrying the plan forward.
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As metal additive manufacturing moves deeper into production environments, the industry’s quality challenge is changing. Manufacturers are no longer asking simply whether in-situ monitoring can capture process data. They are asking whether that data can help accelerate qualification, reduce inspection burden, and support more confident production decisions.
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Manufacturers are being asked to produce more parts, to tighter specifications and with fewer skilled people. At the same time, the cost of a manufacturing error is increasing as components become more complex, machines become more expensive and production schedules become less tolerant of delays.
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The response taking shape across the industry is a shift from “inspect to ship” to “measure to improve.” The measurement itself was never the problem – it is what happens to the data behind it afterwards that needs to change. That reframing has picked up a name: virtual metrology.
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