Inspection & Quality

API has introduced its 6DoF vProbe, a hand-held tactile probing system, for use with its portable RADIAN Pro and Plus Laser Tracker range, extending their dimensional measurements capabilities to perform part inspections conventionally performed by large fixed coordinate measuring machines.

L.S. Starrett's precision tool education manager offers the latest trends and developments in surface roughness measurement.

Paired with machine tools in a manufacturing cell, a coordinate measuring machine can collect, process and transmit data.

Machine Technology: Companies partner to create an extremely fast-acting process monitoring system.

Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division launched DPA Industrial, featuring the new C1 Camera in combination with the AICON DPA series photogrammetry measurement system. Designed to make photogrammetric measurement simple and rugged enough to allow inexpert operation in inhospitable workshop conditions, DPA Industrial is set to establish itself as one of the most accessible high-speed/high-accuracy measurement tools on the market.

Exact Metrology announces the availability of its Artec LEO 3D scanner, which offers onboard automatic processing with an integrated touch panel viewer. This frees users from being tied to a computer for data capture.

Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division launched a new laser tracker line, the Leica Absolute Tracker ATS600. This new product introduces a new concept in metrology-grade laser trackers, with targetless 3D scanning possible for the first time directly from the laser tracker.

Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division launched the APODIUS Vision System 2D, a standalone solution for advanced carbon-fiber part inspection. Designed for fast results within both production-integrated inspection or offline quality assurance contexts, the APODIUS Vision System 2D delivers 2D fiber orientation analysis.

Non-contact laser tool setting systems use a beam of laser light passing between a transmitter and a receiver. Positioned correctly these systems can also be used to measure geometry and detect broken tools.

The XL Box marking laser has been improved to meet new users' requirements. It keeps all the advantages that have made it a best seller and a key reference for integrators.

Manager's Desk: Although stressful, auditing for quality, health and safety can make a company better

Providence Texture LLC, Smithfield, Rhode Island, is a shop leading the way and showing how much femtosecond lasers can do. Femtosecond laser technology represents a new frontier in moldmaking.