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(Laser Design Inc.: Minneapolis, MN) -- Laser Design Inc., a supplier of 3-D laser scanners for 25 years, announced that it is now reselling Renishaw metrology probes and machine tooling, professional “repair by exchange,” (RBE) and used equipment. Renishaw products lead the industrial metrology…
(Calibrate Inc.: Research Triangle Park, NC) -- Calibrate Inc., a leading provider of on-site and mail-in pipette calibration and repair services, announces the launch of its User Qualification Clinic program. The program is designed to meet client needs for staff training in pipetting technique…
(Buehler: Lake Bluff, IL) -- Buehler, a global manufacturer of scientific equipment and supplies for material preparation and analysis, has introduced its EcoMet 250/300 Pro grinder-polisher with AutoMet 250/300 power head.
New capabilities include the ability to store and recall 32 methods via…
Tetra Tech, a global consulting and engineering firm, selected BlueView Technologies to provide detailed 3-D, multibeam scans of the outflow “draft” tubes of a hydroelectric dam in Washington to check for obstructions, scouring, and erosion. The outflow control doors were obscured and not…
(Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.: Ecublens, Switzerland) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a global leader in serving science, has launched a solution for preparing ferrous metals samples for optical emission and X-ray fluorescence. The solution integrates the Haas Mini Mill milling machine from…
(Soltec Corp.: San Fernando, CA) -- NEC Avio Infrared Technologies introduces its new InfReC R300 high-definition thermal imager with a host of advanced capabilities that includes thermal movie recording to SD card in radiometric format, thermal and visible integrated images in composite and split…
(IMAGINiT Technologies: Framingham, MA) -- Rand Worldwide, a provider of technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division launched its Scan to BIM software for the Autodesk Revit platform.…
(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- Invensys Operations Management (IOM) saved 60 hours, or about 5 percent in man-hours, in a mechanical upgrade to a steam turbine by using NVision’s Engineering Service Division to capture precise measurements of valves and other hardware. IOM usually has to spend…
(SGS: Rutherford, NJ) -- SGS was recently awarded the contract for nondestructive testing (NDT) services of the liquefaction and purification facilities during the construction of the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Damietta, Egypt.
About the Damietta LNG plant
The Damietta LNG Plant…
(Wenzel/Xspect Solutions: Wixom, MI) -- “Industry continues to look for good portable 3-D imaging technology for reverse engineering and inspection,” says Giles Gaskell, North American sales manager for 3-D imaging products for Wenzel/Xspect Solutions.
Early in 2010, Wenzel Scantec introduced…
(CMSC: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, has announced a call for papers in anticipation of its 2011 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC). This 27th annual event will be held in Phoenix, July 25—…
(HEIDENHAIN Corp.: Schaumburg, IL) -- The conditions surrounding production-environment metrology place special demands on position measuring systems used for workpiece inspection. The principle of inductive systems involves disadvantages such as temperature sensitivity or nonlinear behavior. A…
Since automotive manufacturing is so highly automated, it makes sense that this industry was an early adopter of machine vision technology. Automotive manufacturers and their suppliers haven’t put their vision solutions on cruise control, however, as they continually seek easier, faster, and less…
(TÜV SÜD America: Peabody, MA) -- TÜV SÜD America Inc., a global inspection and certification services organization, has announced that its Industry Service division offers nondestructive testing (NDT) personnel-approval services in accordance with Europe’s Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC…
(Micro-Epsilon: Passau, Germany) -- Micro-Epsilon has launched the MTS 8202, a modular thickness-control measurement system in C-frame construction. Equipped with calibration technology and supporting different physical measurement methods, the system offers a unique range of measurement solutions…
(T&D Corp.: Matsumoto, Japan) -- T&D Corp. has released the TR-5i series of data loggers, a more powerful and functional family of data loggers. The TR-5i lineup includes the TR-51i with internal temperature sensor and the TR-52i with external temperature sensor; you get the same great…
(Delcam: Windsor, ON, Canada) -- Delcam has launched the 2011 version of its PowerINSPECT inspection software. This new release makes the analysis of results even easier with the introduction of a “Quick Report” option. It also incorporates improvements to the handling of point-cloud data and…
(Fluke Corp.: Everett, WA) -- The first IEC 61010, CAT III 1000V/CAT IV 600V safety-rated portable oscilloscope, the Fluke 190 Series II ScopeMeter, is the only scope designed to be safely used on industrial three-phase power electronic equipment. Yet it offers the fast sampling (up to 2.5 GS/sec/…
(Taylor Hobson: Leicester, England) -- Taylor Hobson, a global provider of ultra-precision measurement instrumentation, has further expanded the capabilities of its Talysurf family of metrology instruments by launching the Talysurf Optics 3D. Based on the established PGI Blu, the new PGI Optics 3D…
(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. has announced its next-generation OmniView 360° inspection system, now with color and five-megapixel, high-resolution cameras. OmniView allows detailed inspection and verification of unoriented wine and juice bottles, canned goods, pharmaceutical vials,…
The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at increasingly lower temperatures. Now, pushing the regime of the very cold into the very small, a team of researchers from the National Institute of…
(Zwick Roell: Ulm, Germany) -- Efficient, cost-effective materials testing is essential for today’s plastics and textile industries. Zwick’s roboTest F robotic testing system offers a compact solution for automated tensile tests on dimensionally unstable specimens. Operating the system is easy,…
(PPT Vision: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION Inc. announces the high-resolution IMPACT M-390 Smart Cameras, which deliver greater accuracy for high-precision machine vision applications. The cameras can be used as part of PPT VISION’s IMPACT M-Series Embedded Vision System—a single system with four…
(Bruker Corp.: Tucson, AZ) -- At the Materials Research Society (MRS) fall 2010 meeting in late November, Bruker Corp. released AcuityXR, a novel optical surface profiler that combines Bruker hardware and software technology to enable select ContourGT noncontact, 3-D optical surface profilers to…
(Baumer Ltd.: Southington, CT) -- With its DSRC strain ring series, Baumer Ltd. offers flexible solutions for measuring cyclical processes such as tension, compression, and torque. The strain rings offer a good repeatability of 0.1 percent of full scale (F.S.). based on its STRAIN…
