It’s called Hercules – the oldest and most versatile military aircraft product line in aviation history. First built by Lockheed in 1954, the C-130 has flown to both poles, supported missions in the Congo, Vietnam and Kosovo, and has even retrieved satellites in mid-air. And today, the quality control engineers at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics use API laser trackers to ensure this legendary aircraft’s quality and precision.
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Dimensional measurement of components is routinely used throughout industry to verify the conformance of the manufactured product to the specification. To ensure measurements are reliable, it is important to ensure the measurement capability is suitable for the feature being measured. The capability to measure parts is influenced by
For Honda of the UK Manufacturing, customer satisfaction is everything. Precision measurement is employed at every stage of the manufacturing process to ensure that everything from the engine to the fit and finish of the body is as good as it can be.
Omco Group, the largest manufacturer of glass container moulds in Europe is using laser scanning to digitise customers' bottle designs, shortening the lead-time from receipt of order to delivery of the finished moulds. Manufactured by Nikon Metrology, the LC50Cx digital line scanner is fitted to a C3V co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM) in one of Omco's seven mould shops, located in the north east Romanian town of Iasi.
From smartphones to tablets to laptops, mobile devices are becoming the standard in virtually every industry, with the number of smartphones surpassing one billion worldwide this year, according to Strategy Analytics. Manufacturing is no exception, as many of today’s global manufacturers are realizing the value that mobile technology can bring to their enterprise’s quality program—due in part to the advancing capabilities and reliability of the cloud.
Are you thinking about buying a new co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM) within the next year? Well, if you are, the way CMMs are specified is about to change. The main parts of the international standard ISO 10360 that relate to traditional tactile-based CMMs changed in 2010 and, over the next year or so, these changes will be seen in specifications for new CMMs. So, what are the main changes you need to look out for when buying a CMM?
Advanced 3D software technology that simulates and visualises geometric variations that will be caused by manufacturing processes is enabling automotive manufacturers to deliver higher perceived quality while saving development time and costs.
The Zwick Roell Group is a world leader in the field of automated material and component testing. Zwick began manufacturing testing machines in Ulm, Germany, back in 1938 and grew, in the ensuing decades, to become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of machines for materials testing. Its product range covers materials testing machines for compression, tensile and bending tests on material specimens, workpieces and components.
Pioneering surgery that could lead to a revolution in orthopaedic adult reconstructive knee operations is about to be performed by Professor Justin Cobb, who holds Chair in Orthopaedic surgery in the Dept of Surgery and Cancer at the world-renowned Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust based in Charing Cross Hospital Campus in West London.
Very rarely is a research area as dependent on 3D-measurement technology in the set-up of its major experiments as fusion plasma physics. When one realises how highly complex these systems are, and how deeply industrial 3D laser measurement technology, and in particular the mobile variants – highly-developed laser trackers, scanning and photogrammetry systems – have become interwoven with this research area in the meantime, one can imagine what the systems are now capable of achieving.
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