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* Blow molded product designers and moldmakers are finding laser scanning to be a fast, accurate, and cost-effective method to replicate molds and create new designs for highly contoured and complex parts such as beverage betties. In blow mold manufacturing, laser scanning has emerged as an effective tool for digitizing ......

HEADNOTE INSPECTION IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 2 DETAILED VISUAL INSPECTION RAM Optical Instrumentation, Inc. offers the Hi-Eye Versatile Video Microscope - * Ideal for visual inspection, detailed quality control, manufacturing or assembly work * More capabilities than simple optical viewers and magnifiers, user-friendly ergonomie design * Large zoom range ......

In construction, there's a direct correlation between the quality of a plan and the ultimate quality of a project. That's why a good plan can be worth its weight in gold. But all too often—especially in construction—there are major discrepancies between design assumptions and actual site conditions. That pressure to ......

Remmele Engineering Inc., Big Lake, Minn. specializes in machining and fabricating large parts, assemblies, and tooling for the aerospace, defense, and commercial industries. This work includes 3D precision measurements of large parts. These measurements range from initial stock verification and aligning a part in a machine to final quality inspections....

Leica Geosystems has announced the next generation Leica ScanStation 2 pulsed laser scanner with significantly faster scan speeds and functionality for as-built and topographic surveying. Now housed in a lighter, lower profile design, the Leica ScanStation 2 is capable of a maximum instantaneous scan speed of 50,000 points/second, more than ......

Three-dimensional laser scanning offers tremendous time savings and cost benefits for metal fabricating and sheet-metal forming. Most important, it provides the ability to reverse engineer and inspect complex parts, assemblies and tooling to a higher level of accuracy and in a shorter period of time than other methods. Instead of ......

An existing laser-based CMM at Jerry Fain Models in Bedford, Tex., provides excellent service but has its drawbacks. The device captures points one at a time, and operators must manually move the steering system to track each point to be measured. The time involved makes it impractical to reverse engineer ......

Hattie Bryant of Small Business School interviews Rosemary Skeffington of Time Technology, a collaborative software company based in the United ......

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Disaster can strike at any time. But during the six month hurricane season, small business owners should have a heightened awareness of how a disaster can impact your business.