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(ABTech: Swansey, NH) -- ABTech Inc., a precision air-bearing metrology gauge manufacturer has introduced the air bearing-based μicroForm Gage model μFG150. This compact gauge is designed around an air-bearing rotary axis with microinch (nanometer) accuracy, ensuring precise, repeatable…
(CSA Group: Toronto) -- To speed entry for solar panel manufacturers into the North American and international markets, a new a photovoltaic (PV) certification test company, CFV Solar Test Laboratory, has opened in Albuquerque, New Mexico, offering worldwide certification services from one location…
(FasTest: Roseville, MN) -- FasTest Inc. announces the FasCal Manifold System for pressure calibration. The manifold supports connections of up to four different devices at the same time, accommodating a wide variety of fitting configurations. The stainless-steel system allows any FasCal connector—…
(Duff and Macintosh: Hornsby, Australia) -- Duff and Macintosh Pty Ltd now supplies the laminar mass flow meters and mass flow controllers manufactured by Tuscon, Arizona-based Alicat Scientific.
Alicat’s mass flow meters and controllers can be used in a variety of measurement and control-based…
(CMS: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, has announced that Trevor Toman is the chair of the organization’s newly formed Academic subcommittee. Toman will serve as a liaison with key education institutions…
(FARO: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., an innovative and leading global provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, introduces the FARO Edge and V4 Laser Line Probe, the most advanced, state-of-the-art FaroArm system ever produced.
The FARO Edge is a portable measurement…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Do you hold the key to solving some gadget mysteries from the last century of U.S. science and technology? During its 110 years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made many innovations in the way we measure things, from basic quantities…
(Nikon Metrology: Leuven, Belgium) -- At archaeological sites, drawing of contexts, sections, and site plans can easily consume a huge part of the total excavation time. For particularly complicated and detailed sites, this can even rise to as much as half of the total project time. To increase…
(Laser Design Inc.: Minneapolis) -- Laser Design Inc., a leading supplier of 3-D laser scanning for more than 30 years, introduced a new high-precision line of 3-D scanners, the Surveyor ZS-Series. It is based on the Spectrum coordinate measuring machine (CMM) platform from Carl…
(InnovMetric: Québec City, Canada) -- A talisman is “an object considered to possess magical powers,” and InnovMetric Software has announced that PolyWorks V. 12 will offer a talisman of its own for users of laser-scanning and tactile-probing devices who need to operate 3-D metrology hardware away…
(Renishaw: Gloucestershire, UK) -- Mike Sullivan founded Future Advanced Manufacture Ltd. (Future AM) 30 years ago and realized immediately that competing on price was not the way forward. “There’s always a ‘Fred in the shed’ down the road who will offer to do any job cheaper,” he…
(AIA: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Sales of machine vision components and systems in North America soared 54 percent in 2010 to nearly $1.8 billion, according to new figures released by the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the world’s largest machine vision trade group.
The AIA “Quarterly Machine Vision…
(SICK: Minneapolis) -- SICK, a global leader in manufacturing sensors, safety systems, machine vision, and automatic identification products for factory and logistics automation, has launched the Inspector Viewer. The Viewer is a compact, real-time, touch-screen monitor that provides advanced…
(Thermo Fisher: Waltham, MA) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, notes that its FT-IR spectrometer instrumentation can provide scientists with increased confidence in their results during quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) testing. This means they…
(HEIDENHAIN: Schaumburg, IL) -- HEIDENHAIN Corp. has now coupled its ACANTO absolute length gauge with the established and versatile ND 2100G GAGE-CHEK metrology readouts.
This gauging package is a great solution for many fixed gauging applications. The ACANTO absolute length gauge with EnDat 2…
(Mettler-Toledo: Columbus, OH) -- Mettler-Toledo Inc. has introduced Quantos Q2 and QL2 powder- and liquid-dispensing auxiliary modules that can be added to any 0.1 mg or 0.01 mg XP Excellence Series analytical balance. The addition of automated powder- and liquid-dispensing functionality to…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time used an apparatus that relies on the “noise” of jiggling electrons to make highly accurate measurements of the Boltzmann constant, an important value for many scientific…
(NeoMetrix: Lake Mary, FL) -- Air Mobile Ministries (AMM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that does disaster relief all around the world. Since its inception in 1978, AMM has traveled around the world many times bringing medical supplies, food, clothing, and now the Air Mobile Rescuer water…
(LUXO: Elmsford,, NY) -- Luxo extends its industry-leading microscope line with a new series of variable inclination position (VIP) microscopes. Luxo’s new VIP series features an extended magnification range, 23 mm (.90 in.) optics system with a 186 mm (7.32 in.) working distance (0.5X lens,…
(PQI: Plymouth, MN) -- Productivity Quality Inc. (PQI) has partnered with the International Institute of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (IIGDT) to present a series of seminars as part of an ongoing effort to promote geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) implementation among…
(PQI: Plymouth, MN) -- Productivity Quality Inc. (PQI) has partnered with the International Institute of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (IIGDT) to present a series of seminars as part of an ongoing effort to promote geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) implementation among…
(Nikon Instruments: Melville, NY) -- In response to an exciting new trend in digital photomicrography, Nikon Instruments Inc. is accepting movies taken through a microscope as a new category in the 37th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. The introduction of this new category,…
(Nikon Instruments: Melville, NY) -- In response to an exciting new trend in digital photomicrography, Nikon Instruments Inc. is accepting movies taken through a microscope as a new category in the 37th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. The introduction of this new category,…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. announces the availability of its new white-light measurement products in North America. The manual measurement system, Cognitens WLS400M, and the automated measurement system, Cognitens WLS400A, replace all former white-light…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. announces the availability of its new white-light measurement products in North America. The manual measurement system, Cognitens WLS400M, and the automated measurement system, Cognitens WLS400A, replace all former white-light…