Tech Zones

This is the Life: This European manufacturer of armored prestige vehicles employs a sophisticated inspection system to integrate life protection into its VIP vehicles.

Error-Proofing Gets Easy: You've got to check it, but every time you touch it, its cost increases. Now, an RFID system provides 100 percent reliable tracking of parts on pallets, totes, or in bins in many conveying applications - and you never have to touch them.

In this case study, a new CMM was purchased as part of the capital investment program for a quality control department that included retrofitting an older CMM with new software and trading in another for this new machine.

Bill Fetters of Hexagon Metrology reveals what the future holds for the next generations of metrology professionals.

More Power to You: Today, economic growth depends upon the power of centralized management through collaborating, interconnected, and integrated processes. Time to revisit enterprise-wide supplier quality management.

ADCOLE Corporation offers a high-speed, sub-micron accuracy gage that measures camshafts for rise error and chattermark detection and features top loading or through-feed bottom loading.

Zontec Inc. offers its Version 6.0, Synergy 1000™ Statistical Process Control (SPC) Software used for ensuring product quality and process improvement.

Gamma Scientific introduces the new Digital Light Source RS-5-93K for characterization of the performance of image sensors and image sensor systems. The new device simplifies focal plane array testing while offering high resolution digital brightness control with near perfect linearity and uniformity.

Carl Zeiss offers DuraMax™, a new compact 3D coordinate measuring machine (CMM). The scanning measuring machine featuring the VAST® XXT sensor is the ideal replacement for all types of gages.

What happens if your fixture is deformed? This new 3D optimal measuring system offers a solution.