USI has announced its next-generation AI Smart Camera solution, a comprehensive edge AI and vision platform that empowers manufacturers to accelerate digital transformation through AI-driven quality inspection, process automation, logistics optimization, and smart factory initiatives.
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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.
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For decades, industrial metrology has been built around a familiar premise: measure a sample, verify compliance, and assume the rest of production follows suit. Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs), hard gauges, and tactile sensors have delivered exceptional precision, but they have also reinforced a workflow constrained by speed. Measuring every component has simply not been practical.
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Poor quality rarely announces itself as a single, contained problem. In manufacturing environments, it may first appear as a rejected batch, a scrapped component, an unexpected line stoppage, or a customer complaint that requires investigation.
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Renishaw announces the launch of its new XC100 environmental compensator jointly at the IMTS 2026 and AMB 2026 exhibitions in Chicago and Stuttgart.
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ZEISS has introduced the ZEISS VersaXRM 5 Insight, a hybrid 3D X-ray microscope designed to help researchers and engineers understand samples faster. Combining X-ray microscopy and microCT in a single platform, the system delivers multi-scale imaging, guided workflows, and automated AI-enabled reconstruction for efficient non-destructive 3D imaging.
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Recent Metrology News coverage of AI-driven visual inspection shows a broader manufacturing trend: visual-inspection systems are moving directly into quality and traceability workflows instead of operating as isolated checks. As those systems become more tightly connected to disposition and process decisions, manufacturers can act faster, but a mistaken automated judgment can also travel farther through the workflow.
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Analysis Express has introduced IrisX, engineering drawing intelligence software that converts information contained in CAD drawings, PDFs and scans into structured data for quality, manufacturing and engineering workflows.
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Renishaw has introduced the new PH20 PLUS 5-axis touch-trigger system for coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) at IMTS 2026 to replace its established PH20 head. It offers over 50% increase in inspection reach over the original head, which will improve access to features deep inside parts and in hard-to-access areas.
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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.
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