The MachineEye video measuring system from MachineEye, a division of MeV Technologies LLC (Westport, CT), was developed to be an affordable alternative to coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). While it does not offer the precision of a CMM, nor generate or capture the same amount of data, the MachineEye allows parts to be visually inspected on the machine tool without having to offload the part and before additional operations are performed on the part.
“If machining a complex part with a complex part setup, the part can be inspected before it's taken off the machine, so the operator can confidently move to the next machining step knowing that the first phase of the operation was done properly,” says Milan Milosevic, chief technology officer and designer of the MachineEye inspection system.