(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 production. In vehicle production, a door to be mounted must be placed in the right position to the door cutout. A component that is supposed to be milled must be aligned to the milling machine. And when a new machine is integrated into the manufacturing process, it must be brought into position. These are just a few examples of positioning and adjusting tasks in production. However, the requirements are the same in all cases: The measured object’s position must be inspected geometrically based on specified data (e.g., computer-aided design (CAD) data  or reference data) by measuring the relevant points on the object. Then deviations to the target position have to be corrected.  

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