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(Creaform: St. Georges Lévis, Québec) -- Last August, 3-D technology provider Creaform launched its Put Us to the Test 2010 challenge. Daring the world to submit high-difficulty engineering projects to its team of experts, the company promised thousands of dollars in engineering labor hours to…
(GAO Comm: Toronto) -- GAO Comm Inc. has released its Model 530 infrared thermometer designed for industrial, laboratory, food service, fire fighting, hobby, and home use. It is suitable for measuring surface temperatures in hazardous or hard-to-reach places or other situations in which noncontact…
(Pinpoint Laser Systems: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems has developed the Microgage Roll Alignment Kit to facilitate the alignment of rollers, idlers, take-up reels, shafts, and web-handling systems. This newest addition to the Pinpoint line is compact and easy to use in all industrial…
(Titan Tool Supply: Buffalo, NY) -- Titan Tool Supply Inc. introduces its new Micro-Video-Zoom Objective and Camera, featuring a CMOS camera for use in microscopy or to attach to a borescope for connecting to a desktop or laptop computer. The new low-cost unit is supplied with a 6-ft USB cable and…
(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- At the EuroMold show held Dec. 1–4 in Frankfurt, AICON showcased its optical measuring system MoveInspect HR, a system that can be used for aligning and positioning objects.
Aligning components or machines is a daily routine both in prototyping and…
(Ophir-Spiricon LLC: Logan, UT) -- Ophir-Spiricon LLC, part of Ophir Laser Measurement Group, a global provider of precision laser measurement, has announced a new version of StarLab, laser measurement software that converts a PC into a multichannel laser power and energy station. The newest…
(Harvard Computing Group: Devens, MA) -- Harvard Computing Group Inc. announces a prerelease pricing for TaskMap 4 until Dec. 17, the release date for v. 4 of this process mapping and documentation software. The capabilities of the TaskMap 4 Standard edition and Professional edition have been…
(Riegl USA: Orlando, FL) -- Riegl USA announces that Riegl Laser Measurement Systems GmbH has released its newest V-line terrestrial laser scanner, the VZ-1000. The VZ-1000 provides high speed, noncontact data acquisition for ranges up to 1,400 m using a narrow infrared laser beam and a fast…
(Simio LLC: Sewickley, PA) – Simio LLC, a developer of 3-D object-oriented simulation software, recently announced the availability of Simio Express, a fully functional, 3-D object-based modeling and animation system. Simio Express, priced at $4,850, was brought to market so modelers could have an…
(Spectronics Corp.:Westbury, New York) -- Inspection professionals now have a new method for fluorescent magnetic particle and penetrant testing, mining inspection, and many other applications—the Spectroline EK-3000 EagleEye UV-A/white-light LED inspection kit.
This kit features the palm-…
(George Products Co.: Middletown, DE) -- George Products Co. Inc. has announced the addition of Florida Metrology as the newest distributor of its OASIS Inspection Systems.
Florida Metrology, a sales and service provider of dimensional and visual inspection products based in Jupiter, Florida,…
In 2008 more wind-turbine power generation capacity was added in the United States than coal-fired power generation. The costs of producing power with wind turbines continues to drop, but many engineers feel that the overall design of turbines is still far from optimal.
New ideas for enhancing…
(Exact Metrology: Cincinnati) -- Exact Metrology Inc. has announced the addition of a Leica Geosystems ScanStation C10 laser scanner to its extensive lineup of portable metrology equipment. The ScanStation C10 is a high-speed, high-accuracy, long-range scanner with full field of view ideal for…
(IPETRONIK: Baden-Baden, Germany) -- IPETRONIK, a global developer of mobile measurement technology for the automotive industry, has announced MultiDAQ, a new universal measurement module. With 32 measurement inputs, eight analog inputs for voltage with sensor excitation, and two frequency and…
(Bruker Corp.: Boston) -- At the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall 2010 meeting taking place Nov. 29–Dec.3, Bruker Corp. has unveiled the AcuityXR, an optical surface profiler that combines patent-pending Bruker hardware and software technology to enable select ContourGT noncontact, 3-D…
(Creaform: Levis, Quebec) -- Creaform, a global manufacturer of 3-D measurement technologies, presents at Euromold and to the entire world its new MetraSCAN optical CMM 3-D scanner.
The portable, arm-free MetraSCAN 3-D scanner and the C-Track 780 dual camera sensor are used to take precise…
(Extensible CAD Technologies: Raleigh, NC) -- Extensible CAD Technologies has released an enhanced version of InspectionXpert First-Article. The software helps companies automate their quality-control inspection processes by providing a faster and more accurate way to balloon CAD drawings and…
(Tiger Optics LLC: Warrington, PA) -- The HALO-500-H2O, designed to measure higher levels of moisture in gases, is gaining notice from gas manufacturers and metrology institutes, reports Tiger Optics LLC, the manufacturer that developed the product at the behest of its London-based representative…
(GE Measurement & Control Solutions: Huerth, Germany) -- The new DMS Go from GE’s Inspection Technologies is a high-end thickness gauge that provides accurate and comprehensive thickness-inspection data in a range of selectable formats. It incorporates joystick control, a high all-round…
(Carl Zeiss: Maple Grove, MN) -- Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology has announced King Machine as a new distributor of Zeiss metrology equipment for Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. King Machine, with a Precision Measurement Center in Boise (Meridian), Idaho, will represent the full line of Zeiss…
(University of Illinois: Champaign, IL) -- The long, anxious wait for biopsy results could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a tissue-imaging technique developed at the University of Illinois. The new microscopy technique, called “nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging” (NIVI), was…
A new chemical analysis technique developed by a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses the shifting ultrasonic pitch of a small quartz crystal to test the purity of only a few micrograms of material. Because it works with samples close to a thousand times…
(3D Systems: Rock Hill, SC) -- 3D Systems announces that it will showcase its entire suite of 3-D content-to-print solutions at the 2010 EuromoldWorldFair to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 1–4, in Hall 11, booths D46 and E26.
The company plans to introduce several new 3-D printers at…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released an updated version of a computer system testing tool that can cut costs by more efficiently finding flaws.
Catching software “bugs” before a program is released enhances computer…
(Capture 3D: Novi, MI) -- See what’s NEW and BLUE at Capture 3D. Mark your calendar for Dec. 8. Capture 3D invites you to have lunch with its Michigan team in Novi and spend a couple of hours learning about the latest metrology technology and participate in live demos.
There are two sessions…
