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Testing and Measuring - Page 4
- From The Fabricator
Evident’s IPLEX G Lite-W videoscope designed for wind power turbine gearbox inspection
- Dec 12, 2022
- Product Release
The portable IPLEX G Lite-W videoscope from Evident enables users to visually inspect inside a wind turbine gearbox without disassembling it.
MAC’s Echomac phased-array ultrasonic system tests entire weld area
- Dec 5, 2022
- Product Release
Magnetic Analysis Corp.’s Echomac robotic phased-array ultrasonic NDT system detects weld zone defects in ERW tube caused by scarfing or welding processes.
- From The Fabricator
Hexagon’s AT500 laser tracker includes wireless probe
- Nov 29, 2022
- Product Release
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has launched the Leica Absolute Tracker AT500 and accompanying B-Probeplus hand-held probing device.
- From The Fabricator
XVC-S100 weld camera from Xiris monitors SAW applications
- Nov 21, 2022
- Product Release
Xiris Automation has introduced the XVC-S100 weld camera for SAW applications.
- From The Fabricator
InfoSight names president/CEO, R&D director
- Nov 7, 2022
- News Release
InfoSight has announced a number of staffing changes.
What are ERW bond lines?
- By Balázs Varbai, Erzebet Nagy, Ferenc Kristály, Valéria Mertinger, and Yoni Adonyi
- Nov 5, 2022
- Article
Are ERW bond lines defects? As it turns out, even though they look like defects, bond lines in several experiments proved only to coincide with imperfections.
- From The Fabricator
Why datums used in CAD should remain distinct from GD&T datum features
- By Mike Matusky
- Oct 7, 2022
- Article
Mike Matusky defines the relationships among datums, datum features, and datum simulators in GD&T.
- From The Fabricator
Hexagon HxGN Machine Trainer CNC/CMM simulator offers training flexibility
- Oct 7, 2022
- Product Release
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has introduced the HxGN Machine Trainer, a multiaxis CNC and CMM simulator.
- From The Fabricator
FARO Vantage Max laser trackers deliver 3D measurement up to 80 m
- Sep 30, 2022
- Product Release
FARO Technologies Inc. has released the FARO VantageS6 Max and VantageE6 Max laser tracker series.
AI improves welding performance
- By Lincoln Brunner
- Sep 13, 2022
- Article
Novarc Technologies’ Spool Welding Robot uses the company’s NovEye control system to inspect welds in real time and learn from that observation how to perform successful welds on its own.
- From The Fabricator
Is the material you ordered the material you are getting to your fab shop?
Properly identifying materials like low-alloy steels or high-alloy steels as they are delivered to a shop is a best practice for metal fabricators.
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- Aug 17, 2022
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- From The Fabricator
Visual Quality Inspection from Schuler compares parts to templates to find defects
- Jul 27, 2022
- Product Release
Schuler has developed a camera-based system called Visual Quality Inspection that automatically detects bad parts so that errors in production can be corrected immediately.
- From The Additive Report
A better way to assess the tensile strength of 3D-printed parts
AON3D and two Canadian universities have devised a method for testing the Z-axis strength of parts 3D-printed on filament-style equipment.
- From The Fabricator
Vision system added to Productive Robotics’ OB7 cobot
- Jul 11, 2022
- Product Release
Productive Robotics has introduced a new, automated vision system for its 7-axis OB7 collaborative robot.
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