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AICON 3D Systems Announces New North American Office
Paul Joss is the new general manager responsible for expanding sales of complex portable metrology used in 3D inspection and measurement for engineering, testing and manufacturing environments.
Renishaw Appoints Sales Engineer for Southwest Region
Sheila Schermerhorn brings eleven years of experience in provides applications engineering for machine tool, calibration, CMM and styli products to customers in Texas and Louisiana.
2012 State of the Industry: Measurement and Inspection
Forecast: Disruptive non-contact measurement technologies will continue to grow to support mass customization in job shops for strong opportunities in anything formed and fabricated, particularly in the automotive, commercial aircraft and energy markets.
PROBING FOR ANSWERS
Explore how advances in on-machine measurement technologies from FARO Technologies have helped Ontario aerospace supplier Express Manufacturing realize a full and quick return on investment.
JUST THE RIGHT TOUCH
An RMP600 strain-gauge machine-tool probe from Renishaw has the right touch for form measurement of 5-axis aerospace parts and enables a portal mill that uses on-machine verification software to double as a CMM at Triumph Fabrications.
PART INSPECTION DROPS FROM TWO HOURS TO FIVE MINUTES
Instead of dedicating a static CMM located away from the point of manufacture, BMW combines the portability of Zett Mess inspection arms with PowerINSPECT software from Delcam to make many more prototype inspections possible.
GAGE MULTIPLEXER AND SMARTCABLE FOR FAST, SIMPLE DATA MEASUREMENT
Make Data Transfer a Snap: Both wire-based units from L.S. Starrett offer a simple plug-and-play set up to gather data from measuring tools such as electronic height or depth gages or other precision measurement products and transfer that data to a PC.
OPTICAL MEASURING SYSTEM INTERFACES TO ANALYSIS SOFTWARE
This direct connection between MoveInspect HR from AICON 3D Systems GmbH and PowerINSPECT from Delcam offers a great advantage: before beginning data collection, a measurement plan can be created in the analysis software to prescribe the measurement procedure in a detailed way, guiding even inexperienced users through the measuring-process smoothly.
GETTING IN GEAR
When a rebuilt CMM from the 1970s that was being used for gear inspection lost its repeatability, specialty transmission manufacturer Cotta Transmission replaced it with a Wenzel bridge-type CMM from Xspect Solutions that was equipped with inspection software and a level of basic gear measuring capability that optimized the inspection process and improved measurement variation by over 200 percent.
A FIRST: SOFTWARE ENABLES POINT CLOUD CAPTURE
CAM2 Measure 10 software from FARO Technologies is ideal for CAD and non-CAD inspection and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) in aerospace, automotive, metal fabrication and tool and die applications.
TOOL MANUFACTURER GAINS COMPETITIVE EDGE WITH ADVANCED TEST STAND
This one-of-a-kind live tooling test stand from the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies at RIT enables Parlec to grow sales revenue by performing unique condition tests on its own tooling and others.
MICURA: HIGH PRECISION CMM IN A COMPACT SIZE
This bridge-type CMM from Carl Zeiss is ideal for measuring small and intricate parts often required in the optical, electronic, medical, aerospace and telecommunication industries.
