NASCAR Team Speeds Production
with 3-D Imaging
As the operations staff at Richard Childress Racing will
tell you, NASCAR racing begins long before the actual event.
From the time the checkered flag is waved until the next
race, RCR engineers are not only racing against time, but
they're also competing to find the best technologies that
will gain their professional drivers -- Kevin Harvick, Robby
Gordon, Jeff Green, Johnny Sauter and Jay Sauter -- the
next win. Full Story
System Combines Surface Finish
and Profile Measurement
Lemforder Corp. is a Lancaster, South Carolina-based supplier
of steering components and suspension systems for trucks
and buses. Being a quality systems supplier, several of
the company's machines feature bearing surfaces that will
come into moving contact with mating parts made of metal,
plastics or powder metal. These bearing surfaces, which
can have complex geometrics, must meet certain surface finish
requirements to ensure product functionality and durability.
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Porcelain Glazing Perfected
Using Optical Technology
Arabia, a Scandinavian porcelain company, has won several
awards for its design and manufacture of artistic and functional
ceramic pieces. The company demands that only the highest
quality products reach its customers, so any piece that
varies even slightly from the company's standards gets scrapped.
A major cause of rejects at Arabia is an inconsistency
in the thickness of glaze. If it's applied either too thinly
or too thickly, the piece has to be thrown out. To reduce
scrap, the company now uses a Dynascope Kestrel from Vision
Engineering Inc. Full Story
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