192 press releases : Metrology, Inspection, Surveillance

Garbsen, May 27, 2009 — YXLON International, a leading supplier of industrial X-ray inspection systems and industrial CT (computed tomography) solutions for the non-destructive testing of materials (NDT), is increasing its sales of standard rod anodes. Rod anodes from YXLON supplement the high-performance microfocus X-ray tubes from the Feinfocus product family. The innovative, cutting-edge techno...

Ocean Optics (www.OceanOptics.eu), the industry leader in miniature photonics, has used the emergence of powerful yet inexpensive microprocessors to turn its spectrometers into web servers that can wirelessly exchange data and operation parameters. The new Remora is a plug and play adapter that makes connecting to an Ocean Optics Spectrometer as easy as putting a URL into a browser. Users can acces...

A welcome ‘bi-product’ of the impressive, extended travel capability of the measuring anvils incorporated into Bowers’ latest, state-of-the-art XT Xtreme Bore Gauges, is their unique ability to accurately measure grooves. As XT measuring contacts are able to contract into the body of the gauge, prior to entry into a bore, and then expand further than the anvils of previous generations of these popu...

... Video Camera as a Tool to Fight Global Warming Phantom V12.1 Featured on May 2009 Front Cover of Advanced Imaging Magazine It probably comes as a surprise to most people that coal is still a major energy force in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the average U.S. household uses several tons of coal each year, without ever seeing it. It’s the most abund...

Avex CCTV Pte Ltd (Avex) is a Singapore registered start-up contract manufacturing company that specializes in the design and manufacture of high quality Stainless Steel ATEX certified Camera Stations for use in Hazardous Areas at Marine, Offshore, Oil & Gas and Industrial locations. It is the only known company in Singapore which has obtained ATEX certification for its explosion proof range of CCT...

February 25, 2009, InnovMetric Software Inc., a leading supplier of 3D metrology software solutions for engineering and manufacturing, is proud to announce that it has pre-released PolyWorks V11 to all of its end-users and distributors worldwide. PolyWorks V11 is the most ambitious release of InnovMetric’s universal 3D metrology software platform. Offering a major set of new probing-related too...

Weighing 20,000 to 40,000 pounds, a tufting machine is approximately 20 feet wide and has up to 2,000 needles, hooks and knives equally spaced, moving synchronously across the machine. To achieve great carpet and acceptable wear life of these and other drive components, alignment should be maintained within 0.010” across the entire span. Tuftco Corporation needs to ensure that these large machin...

FARO Technologies, the world's leading provider of portable measurement and imaging systems, appeared on the first episode of Shades of Green on the Discovery Channel. The company's leading-edge 3D measurement devices were shown on their customers', ATI Casting Service out of Alpena, MI and Creative Foam Composite Systems out of Fenton, MI, shop floors. The episode shows how FARO and its customers ...

With the large preset counter Codix 560 in DIN 96x48 mm format, Kübler is rounding off a complete new generation of preset counters. All application areas for preset counters - including even simple control tasks - are now comprehensively covered. This DIN size 96x48mm device is full of power: Codix 560 offers very bright, large LEDs that can be easily read - even in poor lighting conditions or ...

.....Software determines separation of metal parts....... Goudsmit Magnetic Systems BV has a series of updated trap magnets in it's delivery programme. These block-shaped magnet systems are easily mounted onto existing equipment. They remove all types of metal particles from either lower or upper material flow on a conveyor belt whether it be food, chemicals, synthetic or ceramic materials. ...

TheODEON TU is the last PONSEL turbidimeter to analyze the turbidity without sampling. This field instrument robust and IP67 concentrates 50 years of experiences and several innovation for accurate measurements and to increase simplicity in field conditions. With its digital smart sensor "plug and play", it allows you a direct and immediate value of the turbidity. The ODEON is available in 3...

A new, highly flexible digital BGA inspection system equipped with ultra small size side viewing BGA zoom lens. Provides brilliant image quality even at 300x on-screen magnification. Excellent for flexible visual inspection and digital image recording of BGA, m BGA, CSP and Flip-Chip packages and all other type of components on printed circuit boards. Flexia BGA creates sharp pictures of solder ba...

Bremen, May the 6th, 2009 - The Imaging Source - an international manufacturer of industrial cameras, video converters and frame grabbers announces today a new series of PCI-Express frame grabbers. The models ship with a number of different video inputs. Some models are available for low profile PC cases. The Imaging Source frame grabbers are deployed for applications in which analog video signals...

Nanosurf — Liestal, Switzerland — Nanosurf today announced it will showcase the successor model to the world’s best‐selling Phase‐Locked Loop (PLL) Detector and Controller at the NC‐AFM Conference, September 2009, Yale, USA. Developed by Nanosurf and the University of Basel, Switzerland, over the past few years, the new system provides a fully digital signal‐processing un...

With over 50 years of proven optical experience, Vision Engineering has packed massive technical capabilities into the new Falcon 3-axis non-contact video measuring system, delivering performance you would expect to find on systems many times the price. Designed to be simple, but powerful, accurate, but affordable, Falcon is suitable for both multi-user shop-floor use and advanced manufacturing ...

With a completely new ACCURA®, Carl Zeiss is presenting a multisensor-capable coordinate measuring machine that permits fast, economical, precise and flexible measurements – primarily due to the use of the latest technologies such as foam insulating technology. Another key factor: as with a versatile modular system, customers can configure the ACCURA to fit their requirements. This applies to the s...

With the METROTOM® 800, Carl Zeiss is once again setting standards in CT-based coordinate measuring technology: The new computer tomograph was specifically developed for 3D measurements and structural inspections of complex parts made of plastic, composite materials and ceramic. With the help of metrotomography® – the combination of metrology and tomography – this measuring system enables both the ...

Versatile white light scanner helps speed up die production and tryout CogniTens, part of the multinational Hexagon Metrology group, has supplied its Optigo 3D optical measurement system to Spanish sheet metal die producer MECANER S.A. The white light system – which facilitates quality iterations and manufacturing process corrections in real time – is being used for dimensional inspection and ...

Vision Research®, a leading manufacturer of high speed digital imaging systems, announces that the company’s Phantom® digital high-speed cameras will provide the eye-catching, ultra-slow motion replay for NBC’s broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII. The Phantom® digital high-speed cameras will be used as part of Inertia Unlimited’s renowned X-Mo slow-motion replay systems, which were instrumental in rec...

JetWave 2600 Series, IP67 Industrial Wireless Outdoor Access Point, is an ideal solution to long-distance surveillance seeking to extend wireless signal coverage.JetWave 2600 extends the wireless coverage to 40km. It supports different types of Wireless Multiple Access technologies, include CSMA and Intel TDMA. CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access) is widely applied in most WLAN applications, howeve...