Engineering
Outsourcing metrology boosts Audi Motorsport
Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions inspects several racecar parts regularly and supports rapid development of course-specific components for Audi’s dominant German stock car teams.
Category: Quality
Engineering
Adding vision to process monitoring
Sciemetric Instruments’ software coordinates massive numbers of picture files generated by camera-based quality monitoring and management systems.
Engineering
Quantifying, digitizing subjective data
Major automakers turn to software provider ATS to add quality traceability to human-operated visual inspection stations.
Engineering
CMM-based clay model design systems
Wenzel America adds milling heads to its coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) to create clay models from digital designs, then captures changes to those models to update digital files.
Engineering
Spotting bubbles with process data
Vision systems can’t see air trapped within gasketing material, so an automotive powertrain supplier turned to Sciemetric to find a new way to spot bubbles before they compromised seals.
Engineering
Measurement systems advance cylinder-spray technology
Jenoptik Automotive North America advances optical scan technology to ensure quality as automakers switch from heavy sleeve liners in aluminum engine blocks to spraying on thin layers of metal.
Engineering
Seeing through metal: CT scanning for metrology
Cincinnati-based Exact Metrology invests in X-ray computed tomography equipment to collect dimensional measurements of complex 3D workpieces.
Engineering
Laser scanning improves hydroforming quality
American Hydroformers’ switch to a Faro scanning system to check tube bends results in a repeatable process that produces less scrap.
Engineering
Improving laser seam accuracy, speed
Servo Robot’s laser process control system improves laser welding, laser brazing operations.