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(Honeywell: Helsinki) -- Honeywell has released Precision FotoFiber, a fiber orientation-angle sensor that helps paper and board makers improve overall product quality, while reducing waste and lowering production costs. The sensor—ideal for manufacturing large product runs of newsprint, fine…
(Olympus: Waltham, MA) -- Olympus introduces the new IPLEX LX and IPLEX LT industrial videoscopes. These small and lightweight videoscopes, which are used for a wide range of remote visual inspections of parts or structures where access is limited, offer portability, ease of use, durability, and a…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with private industry and other government agencies, have produced a new reference material for beryllium. Beryllium, an exotic metal used as a hardener in high-performance alloys…
(Coherent Inc.: Santa Clara, CA) -- The new MATRIX 532-8-100 is a Q-switched, diode pumped, solid state laser designed to deliver the best cost-to-performance ratio for demanding micromachining tasks in solar, semiconductor, and medical device manufacturing.
Specifically, it provides 8 W of…
According the Metris web site, as a result of a mandatory reopening of the takeover bid of Nikon Corp. (through NIMD SPRL, a wholly-owned Belgian subsidiary) on Metris, NIMD SPRL holds 11,980,911 shares and thus holds 95.04 percent of the Metris shares. NIMD SPRL will proceed from Sept. 28 to Oct…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Planned and potential expansions and new facilities across campus, the addition of 400–500 kilowatts in power from solar panels, and increasing the already heavy use of alternative transportation by employees to a daily rate of 40 percent are among the highlights of an…
(GE Fanuc: Charlottesville, VA) -- GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, announced the availability of miView, a comprehensive new machine intelligence solution designed to automatically provide companies with accurate and unbiased data to help teams improve the…
(Leica Geosystems: Norcross, GA) -- Leica Geosystems announces a complete new series of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and geographic information systems (GIS) products for the asset management market. The revolutionary Leica Zeno GIS offers experienced professionals and newcomers…
(CEESI: Boulder, CO) -- CEESI would like to invite you to the 2010 Ultrasonic Meter User’s Workshop in Singapore. This annual event, which is modeled after the Ultrasonic Meter Seminar held previously in Colorado, brings together a wealth of information as well as new ideas and new questions…
(NDI: Waterloo, ON, Canada) -- NDI has expanded the versatility of its OPTOTRAK PROseries portable coordinate measuring machine (CMM) with the addition of the wireless Universal Probe Controller. This new addition provides complete freedom of movement for all of the NDI probing options. When…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl’s best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently found1 that the gems might turn out to be a patient’s best friend as well.
The team’s work…
(Thermo Fisher Scientific: Cambridge, UK) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., recently announced a new application note to illustrate the capabilities of its Thermo Scientific iCAP 6200 ICP spectrometer for the analysis of toxic trace elements in children’s toys. The dual-view inductively coupled…
(Leica Geosystems: Norcross, GA) -- Leica Viva is a new generation measurement system that combines state-of-the-art technologies into a portfolio of total stations, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers, system controllers, and on-board software. Innovative features and functional…
(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. has announced at the Quality Expo in Rosemont, Illinois, the immediate availability of analog scanning packages on entry level Brown & Sharpe Global Classic coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).
Scanning packages are…
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new ruler and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available “meter stick” for the nano world, the…
(Olympus America: Center Valley, PA) -- Industrial engineers, quality control inspectors, and researchers can perform image capture and analysis tasks quicker and easier than ever, thanks to the groundbreaking new Olympus microscopy software platform, Stream v1.3. In industrial laboratory…
(Palmer Wahl: Asheville, NC) -- Wahl Instruments Inc. is proud to announce the Wahl Heat Spy Portable Calibration Black Body, an ambient temperature black body used for single point calibration verification and checking of thermal imaging cameras and point infrared thermometers. With an accuracy…
(Advantest: Tokyo) -- Advantest Corp. announces that it has successfully developed the world’s first terahertz (THz) wave imaging system, using Advantest’s original terahertz-wave technology, for nondestructive 3-D analysis and inspection. The system is the first product developed within the…
(New Vista Corp.: Baltimore, MD) -- New Vista Corp. has developed a thread verification unit that is hand-held, the TVU-HH, for the rapid inspection of internal or external threads in production parts. The TVU-HH powers a thread gauge into and out of (or onto and off of) the part. The unit…
(FARO Technologies Inc.: Lake Mary, FL) -- FARO Technologies Inc., the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging solutions, recently announced the release of their latest 3-D measurement system, the FARO Laser Tracker ION.
The FARO Laser Tracker ION is the most advanced,…
(Z Corp.: Burlington, MA) -- Z Corp. recently introduced the world’s most affordable portable 3-D laser scanner, providing high-resolution 3-D data capture to a broad base of users at an economical price.
The ZScanner 600 extends Z Corp.’s fast-growing line of unique hand-held, self-…
(OGP: Rochester, NY) -- Optical Gaging Products Inc. (OGP) introduces the new Focus Advance 16-inch Horizontal Contour Projector, continuing its longstanding tradition of supplying state-of-the-art optical comparators to the industrial marketplace. The new Focus Advance is a premium bench top…
Product News: Manufacturing Cleanliness with Automated Filter and Particle Analysis System Available
(Olympus America Inc.: Center Valley, PA) -- In fields as diverse as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, heavy machinery, and medical devices, the inspecting and analyzing of residue on filters is key for documenting the purity and cleanliness of the manufacturing process and analyzing particles found…
(Zemetris: Tucson, AZ) -- Zemetrics, an optical metrology product company founded last year to provide new concept surface metrology systems, has brought its first system, ZeMapper, to the precision engineering and research and development (R&D) market.
The ZeMapper interferometric optical…
(Baumer Group: Southington, CT) -- To increase the flexibility of machine vision systems and allow control over custom-designed LED illumination, Baumer has introduced advanced gigabit Ethernet (GigE) cameras outfitted with four independent input/output (I/O) ports located adjacent to the trigger…
