‘METROLOGY BREW’ News Bulletin – 19th October
Summary of metrology and smart manufacturing news from the past 7 days.
InnovMetric Unveils MasterKey by PolyWorks
InnovMetric has unveiled MasterKey by PolyWorks, its new customer success program that brings together the essential services that customers rely on to maximize the value of their PolyWorks software investment. The launch of MasterKey by PolyWorks marks a natural evolution of InnovMetric’s long-standing commitment to customer success … read more
Glimpse Simplifies Industrial CT Scan Review
Glimpse has launched Explore, a new package on the Glimpse Portal that brings X-ray vision to all hardware teams. Explore joins the company’s Battery and Automate packages and marks Glimpse’s expansion beyond batteries into verticals such as medical devices, aerospace, automotive, additive manufacturing, and electronics … read more
Hexagon Expands HYPERSCAN Range with Entry-Level Scanner
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 … read more
Beyond Monitoring: Why Metal AM Needs Build Intelligence
Metal 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 … read more
FARO Quantum X Brings Faster Laser Scanning to Automotive Inspection
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. With FAROBlu Laser Line Probes … read more
SuPAR Brings Step-by-Step AR Assembly Guidance Directly to the Shop Floor
Stages and Navigation connect digital assembly sequences with physical components, helping operators see what to position, where to place it, and which step comes next. SuPAR, the augmented reality solution, is showcasing how its Stages and Navigation capabilities bring CAD-based assembly guidance directly into the production environment … read more
Octave Advances NXG Intelligent Quality Management Platform with AI
Octave Intelligence has announced the latest release of Reliance NXG Cloud Platform, delivering innovations that extend its vision of a connected, intelligent quality management platform. The release introduces AI-powered Complaint Intelligence and Natural Language Smart Search, delivers connected supplier qualification and audit workflows … read more
Teledyne FLIR Launches HD Thermal Imaging for Microscopic Heat Analysis
Teledyne FLIR has announced the launch of the A8481, a new compact HD MWIR science camera designed for researchers and engineers who need significantly more thermal detail without changing the workflows, optics, software, and infrastructure they already use. Built around a 1280 × 1024 HOT MWIR SLS detector, the A8481 delivers four times the pixels of VGA A-Series cameras … read more
ZEISS Advances Inspection and Metrology for Next-Generation SMT
ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT) is involved in key processes across semiconductor manufacturing, with technologies ranging from lithography optics and photomask systems to solutions for leading-edge microchip and chiplet production. As chip architectures become more complex, advanced packaging is driving new requirements … read more
Artec 3D Launches Artec Twins for Real-Time Processing of Massive 3D Datasets
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. Artec Twins applies this approach at a far larger scale with a single platform for processing and rendering billion-point environments in real time … read more
Manufacturing Data Quality: The Overlooked Lever in the Cost of Quality
Ask anyone what quality means and they’ll likely describe an experience: a product that works reliably, fits well, and lasts. But that experience is not an accident. It is the outcome of hundreds of engineering decisions across design, manufacturing, and inspection — and every one of those decisions rests on data. When companies optimize the cost of quality … read more
A Decade of Metrology News as Measurement Transforms Manufacturing
Launched in October 2016, Metrology News was established to provide a dedicated, global news service for an industry becoming increasingly important to advanced manufacturing. Ten years on, that mission remains as relevant as ever. When Metrology News was founded on a recognition that industrial metrology was becoming increasingly central to manufacturing … read more
