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Exact Metrology Helps EVCO Streamline Quality Inspection

‘Point cloud’ seen more clearly with advanced 3D laser scanning equipment

Exact Metrology
Wed, 03/02/2016 - 16:24
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EVCO Plastics is an injection molding company that produces parts for myriad industries, including powered sports equipment, lawn and garden devices, agricultural and construction machinery, and medical and packaging machinery. Owing to the volume of work, coupled with the challenges of collecting and processing point-cloud data in the lab, the company turned to its supplier partner, Exact Metrology, for assistance.

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Part of the EVCO strategy, according to Rich Duval, who heads the EVCO metrology lab, is “to have the ability to take a part, scan it, compare it to the CAD/CAM files, as early as possible in the process, and to allow the customer to observe how the plastic product compares to the solid model.” Duval also notes that by using scanning technology and reverse engineering, the EVCO metrology team has been able to re-create the surface of tooling where solid models don’t exist and provide these data to a tool shop for steel revisions.

EVCO’s metrology team had been researching earlier-generation scanning but saw the more advanced Romer and other brands of scanning arms in the Exact Metrology product offering.

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