Tech Zones

Error-Proofing Gets Easy: You've got to check it, but every time you touch it, its cost increases. Now, an RFID system provides 100 percent reliable tracking of parts on pallets, totes, or in bins in many conveying applications - and you never have to touch them.

In this case study, a new CMM was purchased as part of the capital investment program for a quality control department that included retrofitting an older CMM with new software and trading in another for this new machine.

Bill Fetters of Hexagon Metrology reveals what the future holds for the next generations of metrology professionals.

More Power to You: Today, economic growth depends upon the power of centralized management through collaborating, interconnected, and integrated processes. Time to revisit enterprise-wide supplier quality management.

Erhardt+Leimer offers its new camera, ELSIS OL 52, which now also inspects aluminum and metal webs for defects. The defect catalogue comprises, in particular, scratches, dents, contaminations and roller marks.

Pepperl+Fuchs offers their 2008-2009 North American Sensor Catalog and Selection Guide.

Gradient Lens Corporation (GLC) offers its new Luxxor Video System. The new system offers manufacturers an easy way to capture, share and store borescope inspection images, aiding the effort to discover product flaws early in the manufacturing process.

Loadstar Sensors Inc. offers a wireless weight measurement kit that enables product designers and end users to easily build an accurate and reliable weight measurement system.

Renishaw offers its QuickView™ software that gives engineers continuous "streaming" data on machine dynamics, viewable on a live oscilloscope-type display.