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.

Carl Zeiss offers DuraMax™, a new compact 3D coordinate measuring machine (CMM). The scanning measuring machine featuring the VAST® XXT sensor is the ideal replacement for all types of gages.

What happens if your fixture is deformed? This new 3D optimal measuring system offers a solution.

The Spectroline® FC-150 ultra-high intensity UV inspection lamp has a built-in fan that reduces operating temperatures and prevents the lamp from becoming too hot to handle.

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.