Inspection & Quality

Products • September 13, 2012

3dGage Portable CMM

Verisurf Software Inc. says its new 3DGage enables manufacturers to quickly implement lean model based inspection right on the shop floor that yield real improvements in production and quality while reducing costs.

Products • September 13, 2012

LED Ring Illuminator

A low-cost LED ring illuminator from Titan Tool Supply Inc. features a constant-current design to provide powerful, microscope-quality light output with no color shift when dimming.

Products • September 13, 2012

Absolute Arm

The enhanced ROMER Absolute Arm with integrated laser scanner is more rapid than previous versions, offering an acquisition speed of up to 50,000 points per second.

Products • September 13, 2012

MarSurf LD 130 and LD 260

Mahr Federal has introduced a new generation of instruments with a number of improvements and innovations. Reportedly, together the new LD 130 and 260 feature longer travel, the longest in the industry for the LD 260, the fastest positioning and measuring speeds in the industry, an innovative biomimetic probe arm design with magnetic mounting and automatic probe recognition, dynamic measuring force, extremely low residual noise, and a plethora of other improvements.

Products • September 13, 2012

CF160-2 Objective Lens

Nikon Metrology announced significant improvements in optical performance with the CF160-2 Series Objective Lenses for Industrial Microscopy.

Products • September 13, 2012

LSP-X1h Probe Head

Hexagon Metrology announced the release of the LSP-X1h probe head for analog scanning on select Global Silver Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs).

Articles • September 1, 2012 • Alan Richter

Get smart

The second Look Ahead item in the September issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine covers bandsaw technology that automatically adjusts feed rate as the density of a structural workpiece changes.

Articles • September 1, 2012 • Alan Richter

Guided by mirrors

One of the Look Ahead items in the September issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine features a robotic fiber laser machine without a working optical fiber in which the laser beam is integrated in the robot.

Articles • September 1, 2012

Coefficient of linear thermal expansion

Dr. Scott Smith, who writes the Machine Technology column for Cutting Tool Engineering magazine, covers some practical steps to improve accuracy and reduce scrap.

Products • August 13, 2012

laser 103 l-g Marking System

The new range of integrated laser i 103 l-g from SIC Marking meets marking needs on plastic or metallic parts which are subjected to close tolerances or very high rates of production.

Products • August 13, 2012

MarSurf XR 1

With the introduction of the MarSurf XR 1 surface measuring system, Mahr has bridged the gap between portable surface measuring devices and larger, full-featured, PC-based surface measurement and evaluation systems.

Products • August 13, 2012

Wireless Data Transmission

Mahr Federal Inc. has added a new MarConnect Integrated Wireless data transmission system to its family of MarCator Digital Indicators at prices that compete with typical wired systems.