Announcements

In collaboration with Boeing, 8tree’s dentCHECK tool, initially developed for and heavily used within the MRO sector for dent-mapping, was adapted by Boeing for use as an initial inspection tool.  Boeing uses the dentCHECK tool to check the 787 fuselage skin for nearly microscopic anomalies in flatness.

The UK’s University of Huddersfield is to lead a £13.3 million project to help advance sustainable manufacturing, building directly upon the success of its Future Metrology Hub. The UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has announced funding of £11m towards the new advanced manufacturing hub with a focus on metrology in a bid to enable net zero manufacturing.

As part of its commitment to servicing its growing customer base in South America, Renishaw has opened a new, sustainable facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new multipurpose facility, formally opened in March 2024, features an industrial metrology showroom, areas that support additive manufacturing systems, events and conferencing facilities, and space for retrofitting and service activities.

With just a simple snap of a picture, without the requirement for CAD or specifications, KonnectAi’s advanced system augments existing quality inspection processes, ensuring that products and processes meet the highest safety and quality standards.

Aberlink has been honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation 2024.  This is in recognition of the outstanding design innovation and error mapping of the Extol CNC CMM. 

ISDI, an innovator in X-ray imaging solutions, is delighted to announce that His Majesty King Charles III, has approved the UK Prime Minister’s recommendation that ISDI should receive a King’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category this year.

Israeli technology pioneer QualiSense manufactures AI software which is designed to work with pre-existing machine vision hardware, such as cameras, lighting and automation. Stackpole has chosen to retrofit the AI technology to four of its existing inspection cells. This approach ensures the benefits of the latest in Augmented AI, without the need for extensive hardware upgrades.

GelSight, a pioneer in tactile intelligence technology, has announced the release of its GelSight Mobile 3.7 software package, which adds APIs that enable users to integrate GelSight’s tactile sensing capabilities into factory automation processes, robotics systems, and other products sold as a total solution.

At the recent Hannover Fair event, Siemens presented the first generative artificial intelligence (AI) product for engineering in an industrial environment. The Siemens Industrial Copilot, the generative AI-powered assistant, is now seamlessly connected to the Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) Portal enabling engineering teams to find the right help topic and to generate a basic visualization and code faster for programmable logic controllers (PLC).