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(NVision: Coppell, TX) -- Invensys Operations Management (IOM) saved 60 hours, or about 5 percent in man-hours, in a mechanical upgrade to a steam turbine by using NVision’s Engineering Service Division to capture precise measurements of valves and other hardware. IOM usually has to spend…
(SGS: Rutherford, NJ) -- SGS was recently awarded the contract for nondestructive testing (NDT) services of the liquefaction and purification facilities during the construction of the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Damietta, Egypt.
About the Damietta LNG plant
The Damietta LNG Plant…
(Wenzel/Xspect Solutions: Wixom, MI) -- “Industry continues to look for good portable 3-D imaging technology for reverse engineering and inspection,” says Giles Gaskell, North American sales manager for 3-D imaging products for Wenzel/Xspect Solutions.
Early in 2010, Wenzel Scantec introduced…
(CMSC: Benbrook, TX) -- The Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS), the preeminent membership association for measurement professionals, has announced a call for papers in anticipation of its 2011 Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference (CMSC). This 27th annual event will be held in Phoenix, July 25—…
(HEIDENHAIN Corp.: Schaumburg, IL) -- The conditions surrounding production-environment metrology place special demands on position measuring systems used for workpiece inspection. The principle of inductive systems involves disadvantages such as temperature sensitivity or nonlinear behavior. A…
Since automotive manufacturing is so highly automated, it makes sense that this industry was an early adopter of machine vision technology. Automotive manufacturers and their suppliers haven’t put their vision solutions on cruise control, however, as they continually seek easier, faster, and less…
(TÜV SÜD America: Peabody, MA) -- TÜV SÜD America Inc., a global inspection and certification services organization, has announced that its Industry Service division offers nondestructive testing (NDT) personnel-approval services in accordance with Europe’s Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC…
(Micro-Epsilon: Passau, Germany) -- Micro-Epsilon has launched the MTS 8202, a modular thickness-control measurement system in C-frame construction. Equipped with calibration technology and supporting different physical measurement methods, the system offers a unique range of measurement solutions…
(T&D Corp.: Matsumoto, Japan) -- T&D Corp. has released the TR-5i series of data loggers, a more powerful and functional family of data loggers. The TR-5i lineup includes the TR-51i with internal temperature sensor and the TR-52i with external temperature sensor; you get the same great…
(Delcam: Windsor, ON, Canada) -- Delcam has launched the 2011 version of its PowerINSPECT inspection software. This new release makes the analysis of results even easier with the introduction of a “Quick Report” option. It also incorporates improvements to the handling of point-cloud data and…
(Fluke Corp.: Everett, WA) -- The first IEC 61010, CAT III 1000V/CAT IV 600V safety-rated portable oscilloscope, the Fluke 190 Series II ScopeMeter, is the only scope designed to be safely used on industrial three-phase power electronic equipment. Yet it offers the fast sampling (up to 2.5 GS/sec/…
(Taylor Hobson: Leicester, England) -- Taylor Hobson, a global provider of ultra-precision measurement instrumentation, has further expanded the capabilities of its Talysurf family of metrology instruments by launching the Talysurf Optics 3D. Based on the established PGI Blu, the new PGI Optics 3D…
(Cognex Corp.: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. has announced its next-generation OmniView 360° inspection system, now with color and five-megapixel, high-resolution cameras. OmniView allows detailed inspection and verification of unoriented wine and juice bottles, canned goods, pharmaceutical vials,…
The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at increasingly lower temperatures. Now, pushing the regime of the very cold into the very small, a team of researchers from the National Institute of…
(Zwick Roell: Ulm, Germany) -- Efficient, cost-effective materials testing is essential for today’s plastics and textile industries. Zwick’s roboTest F robotic testing system offers a compact solution for automated tensile tests on dimensionally unstable specimens. Operating the system is easy,…
(PPT Vision: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION Inc. announces the high-resolution IMPACT M-390 Smart Cameras, which deliver greater accuracy for high-precision machine vision applications. The cameras can be used as part of PPT VISION’s IMPACT M-Series Embedded Vision System—a single system with four…
(Bruker Corp.: Tucson, AZ) -- At the Materials Research Society (MRS) fall 2010 meeting in late November, Bruker Corp. released AcuityXR, a novel optical surface profiler that combines Bruker hardware and software technology to enable select ContourGT noncontact, 3-D optical surface profilers to…
(Baumer Ltd.: Southington, CT) -- With its DSRC strain ring series, Baumer Ltd. offers flexible solutions for measuring cyclical processes such as tension, compression, and torque. The strain rings offer a good repeatability of 0.1 percent of full scale (F.S.). based on its STRAIN…
(Proceq SA: Schwerzenbach, Switzerland) -- Proseq, a global manufacturer of high-quality portable test equipment, has created new features for its Pundit Lab, which was originally developed during the 1970s as the world’s first portable, ultrasonic nondestructive indicating tester.
Pundit’s…
(Creaform: St. Georges Lévis, Québec) -- Last August, 3-D technology provider Creaform launched its Put Us to the Test 2010 challenge. Daring the world to submit high-difficulty engineering projects to its team of experts, the company promised thousands of dollars in engineering labor hours to…
(GAO Comm: Toronto) -- GAO Comm Inc. has released its Model 530 infrared thermometer designed for industrial, laboratory, food service, fire fighting, hobby, and home use. It is suitable for measuring surface temperatures in hazardous or hard-to-reach places or other situations in which noncontact…
(Pinpoint Laser Systems: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems has developed the Microgage Roll Alignment Kit to facilitate the alignment of rollers, idlers, take-up reels, shafts, and web-handling systems. This newest addition to the Pinpoint line is compact and easy to use in all industrial…
(Titan Tool Supply: Buffalo, NY) -- Titan Tool Supply Inc. introduces its new Micro-Video-Zoom Objective and Camera, featuring a CMOS camera for use in microscopy or to attach to a borescope for connecting to a desktop or laptop computer. The new low-cost unit is supplied with a 6-ft USB cable and…
(AICON: Braunschweig, Germany) -- At the EuroMold show held Dec. 1–4 in Frankfurt, AICON showcased its optical measuring system MoveInspect HR, a system that can be used for aligning and positioning objects.
Aligning components or machines is a daily routine both in prototyping and…
(Ophir-Spiricon LLC: Logan, UT) -- Ophir-Spiricon LLC, part of Ophir Laser Measurement Group, a global provider of precision laser measurement, has announced a new version of StarLab, laser measurement software that converts a PC into a multichannel laser power and energy station. The newest…
