Inspection Tools and Instruments Reference Materials

Description: High-resolution image transmission in a durable stainless steel insertion tube with light guide fibers for bright illumination. Wide selection available to suit any requirements. ...

Description: The videoscope captures light reflected from a subject through an objective lens and directs it to the surface on the image sensor. The image sensor then converts the light into electrical signals and ...

Description: Sensors used for inline inspection must be both repeatable and accurate to be effective for quality control and process monitoring. Without suitable accuracy, measurement data cannot be trusted for ...

Description: Test instruments supplied to the civil engineering industry can be used to survey the mechanical properties of soil and rock conditions. Transducers can be used instead of traditional manual dial ...

Description: Orbit® LTH is being used to check the aluminium sheet thickness as it comes off the roll, but before being cut into blanks and "drawn" into a cup shape. This has incurred thousands in savings, as ...

Description: Pipe Inspection and location systems represent a significant investment for most small businesses. In return, they offer unique diagnostic and marketing potential that can either save or earn a ...

Description: On behalf of well-known automotive vehicle manufacturers, the Institute of Dynamics and Vibration Research (Institut für Dynamik und Schwingungen, TU Braunschweig) carries out brake disc testing. ...

Description: The new optoNCDT 1320 and 1420 laser triangulation sensors from sensor specialist Micro-Epsilon are a world first in miniature design. They are used in pick-and-place machines, the food industry or in ...

Description: In industry, the need for adhesive film is increasing. When producing the film, depressions and folds often occur, rendering the film unusable. Therefore, the customers' requirements for an impeccable ...

Description: A common application in which an air bearing is specified is scanning. Scanning involves moving either a work-piece or an optic at a constant velocity, while a reading or writing operation takes ...

Description: big international food group in addition to high quality demands also has committed itself to the fight against food wastage. Following the principle "What men eat must be pure!" they want to ensure ...

Description: At Delta Airlines' Calibration Laboratory, the Pratt & Whitney Labmaster Universal has again proven itself as a resource that will expand and enhance the capabilities of any laboratory that makes ...

Description: Harmonic Drive located in Peabody, MA is a leading manufacturer of precision gears, gearheads, servo actuators and motion control systems. The Pratt and Whitney Labmaster Universal has helped Harmonic ...

Description: The lead tribology Metrologist of one NASA laboratory stated "The radial internal clearance and axial internal clearance kits for the Labmaster Universal will help further establish us as a very ...

Description: Controlling the color and appearance of products can involve a number of individuals, departments, and suppliers. This process requires a color to be specified, produced, and inspected for accuracy ...

Description: When there's a lot of variation in a sample's color, evaluating it against the standard or communicating its color to others becomes more complex. With the appropriate measurement instrumentation, ...

Description: The method for evaluating the color and appearance of a sample is unique to each application. Many applications, including textiles, ink, plastics, and paint, require visual assessments to be ...

Description: When formulating the color of dye, ink, paint, plastic, or other materials, standardized procedures and conditions are required to match standards through a more efficient process. This involves ...

Description: Which Illumination Angle is Ideal for Evaluating the Color of Your Samples? An object may appear brighter, duller, lighter, or darker depending on the angle at which it is viewed. This is because ...

Description: The end goal of implementing a color process is to get the color you want, or your customer wants, for the finished product through an efficient and streamlined process. If the color of a product ...

Description: How Closely Does the Sample Match the Standard? Even if two colors look the same to one person, slight differences may be found when evaluated with a color measurement instrument. If the color of a ...

Description: When coordinating the color of a product or a sample internally or throughout the supply chain, measurements of the objectâ s color are often performed by two or more instruments. Instruments that are ...

Description: To accurately measure the color of your samples, standardized procedures are required. This includes preparing and presenting the samples the same for each instrumental measurement reading. If ...

Description: The texture and glossiness of your samples may make them appear brighter, duller, lighter, or darker. This is because an object's surface condition directly affects how the wavelengths of light ...

Description: Using heat or high temperature is common practice in plant operations to manufacture a product. Elevated temperature, however, can affect a product's physical appearance, particularly color. This ...

Description: Without light, we cannot see color. With light, color is seen but may appear differently under one type of light than another. An apple, for example, may appear redder under incandescent light than it ...

Description: The sensitivity of the human eye varies from person to person, often causing color to appear differently to each individual. This subjectivity often leads to inconsistencies when evaluating or ...

Description: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Choose two." This common adage doesn't just apply to the design of systems; it also applies to the system itself. ...

Description: The distinction between touch-trigger (single point) measurement and scanning is well known. Touch trigger has been described as a "woodpecker" approach-measure a point, move to another location, ...

Description: Enhanced long term accuracy and reliability through in situ verification. ...

Description: Selecting the right imaging colorimeter for an inspection application requires understanding a few basic trade-offs in imaging colorimeter architecture. Proper selection of image sensor, control ...

Description: Camera and pipe locating can be very intimidating. However, with the right equipment and a bit of practice, you will find that it can become much easier. Here are step-by-step basics to help you ...

Description: Perhaps no single component is as critical to the usability and perceived quality of today's smartphones, tablets, and other electronics as their displays. The use of imaging colorimeter systems and ...

Description: Wireless operation facilitates use in small machining envelopes, and allows fast checks with minimal interruption. Volumetric accuracy testing adds new dimension. ...

Description: Surface irregularities can significantly impact the quality and performance of industrial products; these irregularities can then impact the value of such products. Industrial manufacturing requires ...

Description: Surface texture measurement has a history that began a century ago with the advent of contact-type 2D measurement. Although measurement using optical instruments has been in existence almost as long ...

Description: In the world of industrial manufacturing, surface measurement plays a pivotal role in product development, process enhancement, and quality assurance. Industrial surface measurement began in the 1930s ...

Description: X-ray fluorescence method (XRF) provides an excellent alternative for analyzing the content of precious metals - without damaging the object. ...

Description: Strobe Light Application for Machinery problem solving. ...

Description: The chromatic confocal measuring technique uses a white light source. The white light is delivered from the control unit to the probe via an optical fibre. With no moving parts or electronics, the ...

Description: This paper presents a comparison of machinery condition monitoring results obtained through the use of troubleshooting tools and traditional predictive maintenance instruments and software. ...

Description: The field of predictive machinery test and monitoring has developed a wide range of techniques, methodologies and instrumentation. Although many of the tests are valuable diagnostic tools and are ...

Description: As the fan is running view it from the side. You will be able to detect any "wobble" or misalignment of the blades relative to one another. A fan in good condition should have all three blades ...

Description: The primary use for a stroboscope is to stop motion for diagnostic inspection purposes. However, the stroboscope can be used to measure speed. In order to do this, several factors need to be ...

Description: Customer needed precision alignment of tiny parts on a routine basis. Strong magnification was needed to make small parts visible for most accurate alignment. Instrument would have to look straight ...

Description: The Water Division of a major city contracted with a commercial diving company to repair a malfunctioning valve some 700 feet underwater. Careful inspection of the valve's condition was needed prior ...

Description: Critical surface inspection under high magnification is needed to assess the quality of edge preparation of individual rotor straps. These straps are later stacked to make "strap packs", whose ...

Description: Combustion Engineering designed a system to remotely repair coolant tubes in heat exchangers. The process called for inserting new liner tubes into old corroded tubes and to weld the top and bottom of ...

Description: Design a carriage and slide to translate and rotate rocket case. Drives for both motions to be air-motors for explosive prevention. Include fiber optics illumination into both probes with high ...

Description: Customer's needs were to view a reaction at the surface of crude oil within a narrow vessel. A thick walled glass tube, sealed at one end, was submerged in the oil, creating a passage for a viewing ...

Description: Inspect the entire front air intake section of a GE 404 engine, buried deep inside a new single engine aircraft being manufactured by Volvo. Only available port enables viewing from approximately ...

Description: Certain sections of a high temperature glass-forming mill required remote monitoring via video. The customer wanted to re-use existing borescope cooling shrouds, but no offthe- shelf scope of the ...

Description: Inspect fuel elements within nuclear energy bundles located 10 meters under water. Probe size to be 8mm diameter with working length of 500mm. Probe must be capable of 90° scan from forward to right ...

Description: Although color spectrophotometers are designed to measure specimens both accurately and repeatably, they accomplish these measurements only within tolerances. Spectrophotometers aren't perfect ...

Description: The production of high-quality optical lenses from glass or polymer materials is subject to tight specification tolerances. Critical lens parameters such as central thickness have to be monitored ...

Description: Mike Sullivan founded Future Advanced Manufacture Ltd (Future AM) thirty years ago and realised immediately that competing on price was not the way forward: "There's always a 'Fred in the shed' down ...

Description: Since adopting the machine tool probes, Associated Tools have benefited from an elimination of component rejections, and a 66% reduction in tooling set up times. ...

Description: As the electronics industry makes use of ever thinner coatings, manufacturers increase their demands on measuring technologies to provide reliable parameters for product monitoring. One example is the ...

Description: Stereo microscopes are often nicknamed the workhorse of the lab or the production department. Users spend many hours behind the ocular inspecting, observing, documenting or dissecting samples. Which ...

Description: The fast size results provided by laser diffraction and the method's versatility in analyzing a wide range of materials have made it the benchmark particle sizing technology for dry bulk materials. ...

Description: Retrofitting a gauge probe onto an insert tool to give true position feedback has become commonplace in many high volume mechatronic assembly applications. ...

Description: Grading of bearing components is a demanding post process gauging application. Both Flexures and Block Gauges provide fast and reliable measurements in hard to reach places. ...

Description: Non Contact measuring systems, such as Laser, are commonly used for measuring moving material and they are often effective. However, they are not always practical, cost effective or even possible to ...

Description: CMM's had been used by a large engine component manufacturer for the profile analysis of large turbine blades. The process was both accurate and reliable. However, when the volume of blades being ...

Description: Gauge R&R (repeatability & reproducibility) is one of the most important aspects of a gauging fixture. Good repeatability is one of the most difficult functions to achieve when building a gauging ...

Description: The automation of data collection through barcode technology improves patient care and clinic efficiency by ensuring accuracy and expedited availability of clinical data. ...

Description: Measuring particle size is an indispensable step in understanding a material's physical and chemical properties. Of the many particle sizing methods on the market, laser diffraction is one of the most ...

Description: Some industries need to have a good correlation between the size and the shape characterisation. In the battery industry, the shape and the size of the particles are very important for the electrical ...

Description: In the past few years, high precision inspection and measurement has undergone a revolution in quality and scale. Not only are tolerances far more precise than at any other time in industry history, ...

Description: One of the driving forces in the semiconductor manufacturing industry today is to reduce manufacturing cost and increase efficiency. In the past, laser displacement sensors have been used infrequently ...

Description: One of the driving forces in the solar cell industry today is to reduce manufacturing cost and increase efficiency. In the past, the laser displacement sensors have been used infrequently due to lack ...

Description: The uses of 3D imaging are extending rapidly to many industries that are leveraging the power of 3D software to greatly enhance their products. While 3D scanning technologies have typically been ...

Description: 3D scanning technology is moving from labs and factories into the lives of everyday people. This unique look at 3D scanning applications showcases the pitfalls and benefits of bringing this technology ...

Description: Traditionally, hard-to-reach surfaces have been measured by taking a mold by replication and bringing the replica under a profilometer. With a fiber-based profilometer, it is possible to measure ...

Description: Testing a device, such as automotive oxygen sensors, that immediately changes resistance when power is applied is exceptionally di_cult. Testing demands precision and advanced waveform analysis ...

Description: Lead-free solders are said to cause various problems, such as: lack of self-alignment, bridges, solder balls, insufficient wetting, dendrites, pits, voids and peeling of soldering land. ...

Description: The overriding consideration in designing a very large gage (over 8 inches in diameter) is to make it light enough to handle easily without fatiguing the user. These gages are, therefore, designed ...

Description: In some special cases, a little gaging time can be saved by putting the Go and NoGo diameters on a single gage member. A progressive plug, for example, is suitable for checking a short hole, which is ...

Description: Now, let us look at the alternate design for cylindrical plug gages. The reversible plug gage was more recently introduced and standardized, after it became possible to reach the necessary precision ...

Description: The taperlock gage is so-called because of the tapered shank, which locks into the tapered hole in the end of the handle. It is the time honored standard of the American Gage Design Committee, for ...

Description: The taperlock and pin (reversible) type designs are not well suited for large, heavy gages. The trilock design has been found best suited for gages between 1 ½ and 8 inches in diameter. The trilock ...

Description: The word gage, when used by itself, is about as general and unspecific in its meaning as the companion word tool. In discussing gages, we must first narrow the field down to a manageable size. First, ...

Description: The nominal, or "name" size of this hole is 1/2 - inch. If the draftsman wanted to give the impression of great precision, he could name it .500000-inch. But that, too, is only a name. The nature of ...

Description: Why portable hardness testing? Portable hardness testers have come of age since the late 90's, with a vast offering of high tech, digital instrumentation. Small, compact and menu driven, these ...

Description: The Rockwell hardness test is one of several common indentation hardness tests used today, other examples being the Brinell hardness test and Vickers hardness test. Most indentation hardness tests are ...

Description: GO-NO GO GAGES The concept of Go-No Go gaging is so simple in its logic that it has been known to delight philosophers. For them, a Go-No Go situation is the very rare case where there are only two ...

Description: Renishaw's XL-80 laser calibration system allows calibration service company Geo Tec Messtechnik to expand capacity to meet growing industry demands for tighter part accuracies and greater process ...

Description: Mechanical vibration and turbulent airflow present significant problems for most interferometric test methods. Conditions on the factory floor and in industrial clean rooms with high-capacity air ...

Description: Conditions on the factory floor and in industrial cleanrooms with high-capacity air filtration systems can hamper the use of interferometry. Another problem is the testing of large-aperture mirrors ...

Description: Wavefront measurement is important in the manufacture of individual optical components and for the optimization of sub-assemblies in optical data storage. The trend towards short-wavelength, high ...

Description: An on-axis, vibration insensitive, polarization Fizeau interferometer is realized through the use of a novel pixelated mask spatial carrier phase shifting technique in conjunction with a low coherence ...

Description: We demonstrate a new type of spatial phase-shifting, dynamic interferometer that can acquire phase-shifted interferograms in a single camera frame. The interferometer is constructed with a pixelated ...

Description: The purpose of Data Matrix symbol verification is to ensure reliability and consistency of symbols based on the strict criteria outlined in the ISO/IEC 15415, AS9132, and AIM DPM quality standards. ...

Description: Renishaw's automatic tool setting and tool breakage detection systems recently installed at Hewland Engineering Ltd, are proving to be highly successful in raising productivity of transmission part ...

Description: The rise in the popularity of air bearing spindles for new applications owes much to the ability of modern machine tools to provide extremely tight dimensional tolerances and fine surface finishes. ...

Description: Martin-Baker, the world's leading supplier of aircraft ejection seats, rely on Renishaw's QC10 ballbar and machine tool probe systems to manufacture complex, high-quality components. Martin-Baker ...

Description: Dunlop Aerospace Braking Systems, a part of Meggitt plc, is a global organisation that designs, develops and manufactures wheels and brakes for commercial and military aircraft applications. Aircraft ...

Description: With negative headlines often surrounding the British car industry, it is easy to forget that major manufacturers continue to operate world-class volume vehicle production facilities in the UK. The ...

Description: As the demand for products in the world-market continues to push production, the requirements for high-speed automated processes capable of providing these products and components at lower cost and ...

Description: ACU-RITE readouts are application-specific systems for the manual machine tool industry. The primary benefit is saving time and increased productivity. The addition of a readout system on any machine ...