The standards for precision in parts finished by contract machine shops are increasingly stringent thanks to the specifications and tolerances required by buyers in automotive, aerospace, medical, and ...

To ensure that the speed of composites fabrication keeps pace with customer demand, the ability to inspect and monitor composite part quality must become an integral part of high-rate part ...

Cincinnati-based Hunkar Laboratories Inc. said its Smart-Q-See part inspection system can link to eight cameras to check part counts instantly and rapidly verify the part configuration in packages.

At the heart of the system is the IDS uEye XC industrial camera. Its 13-megapixel sensor delivers detailed images, while the ...

Aiming to eliminate the hassles of supporting and maintaining part inspection vision systems is Advanced Technologies, which has released the Spectrum II. The unit can detect structural, mechanical, ...

Plastics have replaced the materials used previously in many application areas. Above all, fibre-composite materials are very well suited to producing components with precisely defined properties.

Innovation is often a result of the push and pull of market forces: new products or applications that push forward in one industry can pull in their wake significant technological innovations in a ...

Borescopic visual inspection may be appropriate for small parts with areas not visible to the naked eye. Even with all the high-tech testing and inspection techniques in use today, basic visual ...

Jeff Johnson, mechatronics product manager, Beckhoff Automation Quality assurance bottlenecks are especially apparent when working with different components and in high-mix low-volume production. This ...

Dirk Margosch, Vice President Visual Inspection, Assembly & Secondary Packaging at Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co KG, provides advice on final product inspection for small batch sizes. He also ...

The final installment in a four-part series article focuses on the inspection phase when using CAD/CAM tools to design a golf putter. CAD/CAM software used for CNC programming and simulation could ...