Inspection & Quality

Fischer Technology Inc.'s Deltascope FMP30, Isoscope FMP30 and Dualscope FMP40 coating thickness instruments feature strategies for measurement capture, more memory and extensive graphical and statistical evaluation capabilities and are now available with an integrated Bluetooth interface for data transmission to a PC or notebook.

Exair Corp.'s new Summing remote display for the digital flowmeter makes it easy to monitor compressed air consumption from a convenient location.

Dorsey Metrology International offers a new comparator has the same high-quality features as the current product line, but in a smaller package and at a lower price point.

Is your shop like a clean room? It could be.

Focus Variation, the technique behind Alicona's Infinite Focus 3D optical metrology system, has enabled EDM Department, Bartlett, Ill., to measure and see what it is making down to 1.7µm tolerances. Watch this brief report to see the system in action and learn about how EDM Department implemented the system.

Continuing to provide the Quadra-Chek metrology digital readout for 2-D geometries, Heidenhain Corp. introduces it with a new dark gray faceplate. It is now called the Quadra-Chek ND 1200.

The benefits of performing tool breakage detection with a noncontact, laser-mounted monitoring system.

Ono Sokki Technology Inc. introduces the Model GS-1600 linear gage sensor.

A rational approach to machine tool selection.

Hexagon Metrology Inc. announced the immediate availability of new versions of the TESASTAR-m and TESASTAR-sm motorized probe heads for Brown & Sharpe and Sheffield branded coordinate measuring machines shipped from the North Kingstown, R.I., factory.

Machine Technology column for December 2009 issue.

While some may question its use, on-machine probing can reduce setup time while boosting in-process dimension control and enabling part verification.