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MANUFACTURING
ASORCAD
Smart manufacturing
becomes portable
Portability, reliability and simplicity: the three attributes
that new technologies have been providing to
engineers and manufacturers in their daily work. Now,
these technologies are doing the same thing in the
field of metrology, inspection and quality control.
It used to be common to see technicians working in
closed metrology laboratories, sealed and away from
the workshop. That is now ancient history. The new
portable laser 3D scanners and portable optical coordinate
measuring machines (CMM) are able to provide
the most reliable metrology data for inspection
and quality control anywhere, and in the working conditions
of any workshop.
In metrology, the great innovation has been the incorporation
of coordinate optical measurement devices
and fully portable 3D laser scanners. Extremely
manageable and comfortable to use, they offer precision
metrology without being affected by the environment.
The part to be measured can be in movement,
because the scanner or CMM can move during measurement.
It does not matter if there are vibrations,
changes in temperature, or light. These characteristics
mean that measurements can be made in the workshop
itself, on the production line, at the customer's
house or outdoors. It doesn't matter. The accuracy of
the measurements will not be altered in any case.
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