Inspection & Metrology Equipment

Mitutoyo America Corp. announces the release of MiCAT Planner v1.5 for the company's coordinate measuring machines. In as little as one click, MiCAT Planner automates the generation of measurement programs based on CAD models containing geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) information, as well as dimensional measuring equipment (DME). When no GD&T information exists, it can easily be added.

Renishaw announces the SFP2 – a new, improved surface finish measurement probe – for use with its REVO 5-axis measurement system on CMMs. The SFP2 probe increases the surface finish measurement ability of the REVO system, which offers a multisensor capability providing touch-trigger, high-speed tactile scanning and noncontact vision measurement on a single CMM.

Tapmatic's Scribewriter Force II allows end users to utilize a single setup and mark a part with any logo or text as it is being made. This eliminates the need for separate stand-alone marking machines.

MC Machinery Systems Inc. has partnered with InspecVision Planar US and will be offering the next generation of precision metrology. InspecVision, the high-speed integrated 2D and 3D measurement system, brings speed, accuracy and reliability to a shop's measurement quality process.

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence announced the latest evolution of its GLOBAL S coordinate measuring machine (CMM) series, customizable for specific inspection work and changing manufacturing objectives. The new CMM platform features four capability packages focused on customer productivity drivers: Throughput, Precision, Multi-Purpose and Shop-Floor.

Mitutoyo America Corp. announces the release of the latest Rockwell hardness testers in its HR-530 Series, including the HR-530 (maximum specimen size height: 250 mm; depth: 150 mm) and the HR-530L (maximum specimen size height: 395 mm; depth 150 mm).

The Optoquick high-precision gage from Marposs Corp. measures parts up to 1,200mm (47.244") long. Optoquick sits directly beside machine tools to reduce wasted motion and increase productivity.

FOBA Laser Marking + Engraving has further optimized the capability of its CO2-laser marking systems. In response to increasing demands for marking quality and speed, FOBA introduces 10- and 30-watt lasers that mark a broad range of materials with variable contents.

The L.S. Starrett Company has introduced a comprehensive line of innovative, entry-level, computer-based, force-testing solutions for applications ranging from load limit and distance testing to break limit, time average, cyclic count and duration testing, constant hold and more. Optimized for production and quality control testing, the versatile, innovative architecture of the L1 system is designed for reliable, fast, repeatable and easy operation.

Coordinate measuring machine OEM AIMS Metrology has introduced a virtual calculator designed to help manufacturers find out in "real time" just how much money they will save with a Renishaw REVO 2 5-axis scanning probe. The company designed its flagship CMM, the Revolution LM, around the REVO 2 which is equipped with an RVP vision probe. The RVP provides noncontact vision measurements on a 5-axis platform with infinite positioning.

The new 100-Watt fiber laser FOBA Y.1000 operates up to 40 percent faster than common 50-Watt lasers and allows for marking substrates that are usually difficult to mark with other models. It applies robust marks on heavy wear products to ensure abrasion-proof legibility.

A new line of foot load cells that can add accurate weighing capability to bins, conveyors, hoppers, tanks and virtually any other platform has been introduced by Alliance Scale Inc.