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December 28, 2020
reverse engineering

Selecting the Right Reverse Engineering Provider

Whether you are outsourcing or purchasing equipment to reverse engineer in-house, you want to be sure that you are working with a qualified provider that can guide you through the entire process. The ideal solution is a company that both sells equipment and provides outsourced reverse engineering services.
November 24, 2020

Contact vs. Non-Contact Measurement

Understanding which dimensional inspection sensor type, contact, or non-contact, best meets your requirements can be a bit complicated. With this article, we aim to help answer some basic questions and give readers an idea of how to go about choosing measurement systems and methods. For a simplified introduction, contact measurement devices must navigate the object/part point-to-point, where non-contact systems measure with absolutely no contact or direct touch probing whatsoever.
October 30, 2020

Tips on How to Avoid the Quality Inspection Bottleneck

Most production and manufacturing development systems include quality inspection in the process. Often, these quality roles are independent teams with the purpose of safeguarding against sub-standard manufacturing from EVER reaching customers.
August 31, 2020
Ruby Styli

The Ruby CMM Stylus – A Closer Look at an Industry Standard Tool

Ruby styli are the industry standard as the ideal stylus material for a vast majority of measurement applications. Ruby (both natural and synthetic) is one of the hardest minerals known to man (second only to diamond) with inherent characteristics that make it a nearly perfect material for use as a CMM stylus.
June 18, 2020
Inspection-Tools

The Top 10 Dimensional Measurement Tools Every Start-up Machine Shop Should Have

We are often asked what the most essential dimensional measurement tools are for a machine shop that is just getting started. If purchasing a CMM or vision system (or both) is outside of your budget currently, these are the tools that every machine shop quality dept should have at the very minimum to perform quality inspections. In fact, even if you’re going to get a CMM or a vision system, a good inspection department should always have these measurement tools in-house.