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Testing and Measuring - Page 12
- From The Fabricator
Updated vProbe sensor from API offers production floor CMM measurements
- Oct 19, 2020
- Product Release
The API vProbe tactile measuring sensor provides the ability to perform CMM-style measurements directly on the production floor. Integrated with the company’s Radian Laser Tracker series, the sensor enhances its measuring capabilities and functionalities. The wireless, hand-held, lightweight...
- From The Welder
Xiris adds special adviser
- Oct 16, 2020
- News Release
Xiris Automation, Burlington, Ont., has named Dr. Patricio Mendez as a special adviser to help the company develop new camera and inspection technologies for the welding industry. Mendez is a professor, the Weldco/industry chair in welding and joining, and director of the Canadian Centre for...
- From The Fabricator
Olympus provides equipment to Hellier for training future NDT inspectors
- Oct 15, 2020
- News Release
Waltham, Mass.-based Olympus, a manufacturer of NDT systems, has supplied Hellier NDT’s Houston location with an OmniScan X3 phased array flaw detector and other instruments for use in training new inspectors in ultrasonic testing. Hellier NDT is a provider of NDT training and Level III services...
- From The Additive Report
ROE Dental Lab is all in with 3D printing
- By Don Nelson
- Oct 8, 2020
- Article
ROE Dental Laboratory has steadily expanded its use of 3D printing and other digital manufacturing processes. Digital now touches 60% of the Ohio company’s processes.
- From The Fabricator
Buehler to sponsor Wilson Hardness Days in November
- Oct 5, 2020
- News Release
Buehler, an ITW Company based in Lake Bluff, Ill., is hosting Wilson Hardness Days Nov. 4-5, 2020. This free, virtual educational program includes two half days of an immersion into hardness testing and calibration. Dr. Mike Keeble, U.S. labs and technology manager, and Dr. Evans Mogire, EU labs...
- From The Fabricator
Hexagon RS6 laser scanner from Exact Metrology scans challenging surfaces
- Sep 29, 2020
- Product Release
Exact Metrology has released the Hexagon RS6 laser scanner. It scans up to 1.2 million points/sec. with a scan rate of 300 Hz. Its laser stripe is 150 mm at midrange, and a visual guide provides real-time feedback for standoff distance. According to the manufacturer, SHINE (systematic...
- From The Fabricator
Solar Atmospheres named as preferred aerospace supplier
- Sep 23, 2020
- News Release
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA has achieved preferred status for heat treating, hardness testing, and nondestructive liquid penetrant testing following an on-site Boeing Supplier Assessment in August 2020. The company added a metallurgy lab since Boeing’s last visit and will be seeking D1-4426...
- From The Fabricator
CMM with laser scanner helps aviation company retrofit aircraft
- Sep 21, 2020
- News Release
SituationLocated in Sugar Grove, Ill., Chicago Jet Group was formed in 2003 to serve the corporate aviation industry. The company provides aircraft acquisition, aircraft management, charter services, prepurchase evaluation, aircraft avionics, aircraft consulting, and aircraft maintenance. Chicago...
- From The Additive Report
The first Bridgeport I crashed—and other shop memories
- By Kip Hanson
- Sep 18, 2020
- Blog Post
Memories, be they of freshly cut grass or a 1-in. micrometer, can elicit a vague sense of loss.
- From The Fabricator
Starrett’s AVX550 vision system combines vision, touch-probe inspection
- Sep 18, 2020
- Product Release
The L.S. Starrett Co. has introduced the AVX550 multisensor vision system, equipped with dual optical systems and touch-probe capability. The large-format system can be equipped with two cameras and lenses to be used sequentially in the same program along with touch probe options. It features a...
- From The Fabricator
FARO makes two additions to senior leadership team
- Sep 3, 2020
- News Release
FARO Technologies Inc., a provider of 3D measurement, imaging, and realization systems, has hired two industry veterans to join its senior leadership team and manage the global hardware and software R&D teams. Avi Ray-Chaudhuri, named vice president of hardware R&D, has more than 20 years of...
- From The Fabricator
FARO acquires ATS AB
- Aug 24, 2020
- News Release
FARO Technologies Inc., Lake Mary, Fla., a provider of 3D measurement, imaging, and realization systems, has acquired Advanced Technical Solutions in Scandinavia AB (ATS), a Sweden-based provider of 3D digital twin technology. The acquisition integrates ATS software and its proprietary Traceable...
- From The Fabricator
Mahr Inc. appoints GM, sales
- Aug 13, 2020
- News Release
Providence, R.I.-based Mahr Inc., a manufacturer of precision measurement equipment used for dimensional metrology, has hired Bill Taylor as general manager, sales, for the U.S. and Canada. Taylor has more than 20 years of industrial experience, holding leadership positions with companies including...
- From The Fabricator
Olympus, Metal Analysis Group to deliver alloy verification training
- Aug 5, 2020
- News Release
Waltham, Mass.-based Olympus and Metal Analysis Group have announced a collaboration to offer API RP 578 global training courses for alloy verification and positive material identification (PMI) workers. Using the right alloy in the right component is critical to help prevent accelerated corrosion...
- From The Fabricator
Scientific Dust Collectors completes ASHRAE 199 testing of baghouse unit
- Aug 5, 2020
- News Release
Scientific Dust Collectors (SDC), Alsip, Ill., has established an on-site ASHRAE standard 199 test lab and recently completed testing on its Reverse Pulse Jet Baghouse Collector. The standard provides an objective method of testing the performance of an industrial pulse cleaned dust collector. The...
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