(Laser Design Inc.: Minneapolis) -- Laser Design Inc. announces that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has installed a Laser Design SURVEYOR WS Series 3-D laser scanning system in its Materials Reliability Division located in Boulder, Colorado. The fully automated, CNC programmable system was purchased by NIST primarily for its industry-best high accuracy (0.011 mm) and high resolution (0.005 mm). It is equipped with the industry’s highest-accuracy laser line-scanning probe, the Laser Design SLP-250 with 9 micron accuracy.

“The Laser Design SURVEYOR WS system met all our requirements: high accuracies, the best resolutions, and a compact size for our testing lab,” explains Chris McCowan, NIST materials research engineer.

The SURVEYOR WS system also includes a Renishaw PH-10 (CNC head indexer) and a fourth-axis rotary stage for the most flexible six-axis 3-D scanning available.

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