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.

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.

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.

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.

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.