Groundbreaking research to measure offshore workers' body size with 3D scanners to inform the future design of safety equipment, survival clothing and space requirements on offshore installations has been launched in Aberdeen.
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In the metrology driving seat with FI worldbeater, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is FARO, now the McLaren Group's Official Supplier of measuring systems
Bruker has received over $3 million in orders from a leading provider of consumer displays for Bruker’s self-calibrating ContourGT-X 3D optical microscopes. The ContourGT-X optical microscope plays a key role in the customer’s strategy to dramatically reduce production costs while maintaining the highest standards of quality as it expands production of larger, higher density displays.
Acciaierie Venete is an Italian steelmaker whose activity dates back to 1957. Today the company casts 1,500,000 tons of steel per year. The steel is delivered to the Automotive, Mechanical, Energy, Oil & Gas and construction industries. Two automatic Indentec hardness testing systems for hardenabilty deliver quality and productivity improvements.
How does a five-decade-old, privately-owned New England sheet metal job shop remain competitive and profitable even during challenging economic times? According to Moe St. Germain, chief operating officer of Century Manufacturing, of Holliston, Massachusetts, USA, "A fair price, on-time delivery and consistent product quality is the recipe."
Janam Technologies LLC, a provider of rugged mobile computers that scan barcodes and communicate wirelessly, along with I & R Partners, a leader in data collection solutions for quality control and assembly in manufacturing environments, has announced that one of the world's largest automotive companies is using Janam's rugged mobile computers as an integral part of the I & R Partners' GaugeFlex wireless data collection system at a major South American manufacturing facility.
Integrating industrial ID code readers and machine vision systems into production processes elevates logistics, the automation of operations and automatic data collection to a higher level.
It is 97 metres long and weighs 7,400 tonnes. The vessel has a sonar system with the processing power of 2,000 laptop computers which is so sensitive it can hear other vessels 3,000 miles away and can carry a payload of 38 Tomahawk cruise missiles capable of hitting targets 1,200 miles away. It is clad in high-density rubber tiles and noise and vibration suppression techniques are used to maintain the submarine's stealth.
With Hexagon Metrology's Cognitens WLS400M, Honda in the UK now carries out a root cause analysis in one shift instead of several days. Measurements on the new Honda Civic that used to take 1.5 hours are now taken in 15 minutes.
Varta Consumer Batteries in Dischingen, Germany produces up to 1 billion portable batteries annually. In order to meet customer demands for product quality, the company relies on a high level of automation with visuion systems achieving 100% fault detection.
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