192 press releases : Metrology, Inspection, Surveillance

January 26th, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - LMI Technologies Inc. (LMI) recently announced Visionlink as a new distributor for Italy. As partners, LMI looks forward to working with Visionlink who specialize in vision component distribution and consultancy. Their skills and experience in vision applications offer yet another level of support for LMI customers. The LMI sales team has...

A new 50 nanometer resolution linear motor based XY stage, LXY25 series, incorporating cross roller linear bearing has been developed by SMAC Corporation. It has been used to solve a critical automotive part problem at a major Asian automobile manufacturer. The part is a machined aluminium casting with 3 critical bores machined in it. Required tolerance is less than 4 micron on each bore. High ...

Ocean Optics has combined its expertise in miniature spectrometers and precision optics to create a compact system for real-time transmittance measurement of ophthalmic lenses and other optical components. Typical applications The OTS is especially useful for measuring tint colour, visual transmittance and UV cut-off of ophthalmic lenses, optical coatings, windows and filters and sun lens mater...

January 8th, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia – The Vision 2008 tradeshow in Stuttgart, Germany at the beginning of November presented a wonderful opportunity for LMI to launch maestro™ to the machine vision industry. As industry members know, Germany is the hub for innovative engineering design, so it’s no surprise that most of the key customers, manufacturers, and distributors in this market wer...

Thermwood Corporation is currently the oldest CNC router company. An important process for their CNC machines is axis alignment verification. The mechanical instruments they used, however, were not the desired solution, as they required multiple setups, which in turn required a great deal of back-tracking to verify alignment states. There was no quick or easy way to monitor changes resulting from...

Parallel Robotics uses the FARO Gage to overcome the limitations of fixed CMMs in robot calibration. Before, it took six hours to calibrate each robot, but this has been reduced to one hour with the Gage. This convenience and efficiency is priceless in the design and production of high-precision positioning systems.

Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 29, 2008 – Asylum Research, the technology leader in Atomic Force/Scanning Probe Microscopy (AFM/SPM), announced today that it is introducing the Cypher AFM, the industry’s first completely new small sample AFM/SPM in over a decade. Cypher is the world’s highest resolution AFM, providing more capability, more control, and more modularity with unprecedented ease of use. The...

In response to a rapidly growing customer base, Third Dimension today launched a dedicated online forum. The forum, which is accessible to all GapGun operators, administrators, resellers and partners, provides a central location in which GapGun metrology and technical matters can be easily and openly discussed. Head of Support Steve Rogers explained "We are constantly looking for ways to help ou...

On 5th January 2009 Metris and Renishaw announced a recent agreement under which Renishaw licenses the source code of the Metris Camio CMM software. In order to support their own further development Renishaw has also employed a number of Metris engineers. Metris preserves full ownership of the original source code and the Camio brand name. Metris will continue to develop and market Camio as its...

StarTracker is an inexpensive, lightweight modular solution for position measurement in space, especially developed for nano-satellites. Issues: - Identification and correction of defective pixels on the CCD sensor, - Determination of X/Y coordinates of all stars with pixel accuracy, - Determination of apparent magnitude of all stars with 12-bit accuracy, - 6 m marginal magniturde if used ...

Eriez® introduces the advanced E-Z Tec® XR-81 X-Ray Inspection system, part of the company’s line of highly sensitive automated inspection systems. The XR-81 is specifically designed to inspect large cartons or cases for foreign objects, count and damaged or missing product. This state-of-the-art inspection system is constructed of a durable stainless steel cabinet and features a 15-inch color...

Creating cross-sectional views of crimped connections with chemical etching technique is time-consuming and requires strict adherence to on-the-job safety regulations. Schleuniger’s new MicroGraph System with a combined saw-polishing process and innovative electrolyte staining technology allows the creation of high-quality cross-sectional views in a fraction of the time needed with “conventional” m...

Liestal (Switzerland) — For the first time ever, nanostructures have been measured on another planet. On July 9, the NASA "Phoenix" Mars Probe recorded images with nanometer resolution (one nanometer roughly corresponds to 0.00000004 inch) using its onboard Swiss-made atomic force microscope, and successfully transmitted these images back to Earth. The first images of the microscope — which was dev...

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LMI Technologies Inc. (LMI) is happy to announce that they have signed a distribution agreement with Japan F.A. Systems Corporation (JFAS) to initiate a new added sales value channel in Japan for the following LMI product lines: maestro™, HexSight™ and FireSync™. When asked why JFAS chose LMI as a new supplier, Mr. Naoyuki Kani, CEO of JFAS simply says, “both LMI and JFAS share similar busines...

LMI Technologies introduced the new Selcom™ High Speed RoLine™ 1130 Sensor for high speed pavement profiling at the 20th Annual Road Profiler User’s Group (RPUG) Meeting in Austin, Texas October 26-29 2008. RPUG is an industry user group which serves as a forum for the exchange of information between end users, data collectors, vendors, construction and design engineers and researchers who have an ...

FARO, the world leader in portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software, announced that it released an online video demonstration of its all-new FARO Laser ScanArm V3. The FARO Laser ScanArm was the first-ever seven-axis contact/non-contact measurement device with a fully integrated laser scanner. It enables users to collect simple point variations with the Arm's hard probe, then las...

Nikon Instruments Europe and JEOL have announced an agreement that appoints Nikon as the official European distributor of the innovative NeoScope benchtop SEM (scanning electron microscope). Whether used by trained electron microscopists as a compact screening instrument, or by lab technicians seeking a higher resolution alternative to the light microscope, the NeoScope will help accelerate the pac...

New - Video Endoscope with 4 Way Joystick remote controlled Articulation, LCD Screen and SD Card for image recording. High quality image at a very affordable price. Totally autonomous. Diamete : 6.9mm Working length : 1.500 & 3.000 mm Direction of vision : 0° or 90° Joystick Articulation Control Stand-alone Imaging Unit High Navigation Ability Adjustable Brightness

Vision Engineering’s DX51 metallurgical microscope for routine applications including materials analysis, metal processing and building materials. Vision Engineering is a world leader in optical solutions for inspection and measurement with over 50 years of design and manufacturing for engineers by engineers. The DX51 metallurgical microscope makes easy work of material analysis for a wide ...