It’s no secret to anyone involved in aerospace composites that production rates in commercial aircraft assembly lines anchored by advanced layup processes — automated fiber placement (AFP) and ...

Drone or quadcopter with camera 3d for scanning. This idea is now being applied to aircraft inspections, and will result in lower costs and improved safety. Aircraft are regularly inspected for a lot ...

If you’re producing small precision components, quality drives the entire manufacturing process. One of the ways to help ensure the quality of such products is through the use of automated inspection ...

As it currently stands, there is no easy-to-use and efficient process in place for fleet owners and managers to assess their fleet vehicles’ conditions for onboarding, offboarding, after a driver ...

3D surface profilers have been used across many industries since the mid-1970s due to their ability to deliver critical topographic data. The size and type of samples measured using these techniques ...

The key to precision manufacturing is right there in the name: precision. Accurate measurement is crucial to reproducibility, and reproducibility is the soul of modern manufacturing. Because of this, ...

To ensure that the speed of composites fabrication keeps pace with customer demand, the ability to inspect and monitor composite part quality must become an integral part of high-rate part ...

Dirk Margosch, Vice President Visual Inspection, Assembly & Secondary Packaging at Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co KG, provides advice on final product inspection for small batch sizes. He also ...

The BMW motorcycle plant in Berlin. During my time in Germany for Hannover Fair 2015, I had the opportunity to visit BMW’s motorcycle production facility in Berlin as a guest of Siemens. All BMW ...

The CMM Master is fully portable, so it can be configured for use on the shop floor or in the QA lab. Inspection sequences can be automated, or conducted manually using a joystick. What machine shop ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has submitted to Congress “Automated Track Inspection Technologies,” a report (download below) required under the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Sent ...

Rental car giant Hertz will deploy Israeli automated vehicle inspection technology to help speed up detailed damage and maintenance assessments of its fleets stationed across major US airports.