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Articles Tagged with ''optical comparators''

Dorsey Metrology - Your Precision Problem Solver
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Dorsey Metrology International

November 11, 2022

For over 65 years Dorsey Metrology International, a certified women’s business enterprise (WBE), has been manufacturing high-precision mechanical and optical measurement equipment.


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Choosing the Optical Measurement Device That’s Right for You

This form of noncontact detection applies to applications across most verticals and sectors.
Paul Nuara Mark Sawko
October 1, 2019

Optical measurement refers to noncontact measurement using various light sources. It usually requires at least one lens, a light source and a detector. 


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Keyence IM-7000 Measurement System

Keyence IM-7000 Measurement System

October 1, 2017

Keyence will be featuring the recently released IM-7000 Series Instant Measurement system at The Quality Show 2017! 


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Digital Advancements for Shop Floor Inspection of Medical Devices

Digital Advancements for Shop Floor Inspection of Medical Devices

A wide range of inspections and verifications are needed for these parts.
Patrick Beauchemin
August 1, 2017

Inspecting medical parts such as orthopedic implants and medical instruments pose a number of arduous challenges to manufacturers. 


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L.S. Starrett HDV500 Digital Video Comparator

L.S. Starrett HDV500 Digital Video Comparator

December 1, 2016

Starrett Kinemetric Engineering, Inc., a subsidiary of the L.S. Starrett Co., announced the all new HDV500 digital comparator that combines the features of a vision metrology system and an optical comparator. 


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New Optical Comparator Fixturing

New Optical Comparator Fixturing

December 1, 2016

R&R Fixtures now offers a full range of Optical Comparator fixturing for all your inspection needs, allowing you full capacity to position, stabilize and inspect your part with complete access and viewing circumference around the part.


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Automatic Inspection of Industrial Gas Turbine Parts

How do you inspect such large, heavy and complex parts—with the required accuracy?
Patrick Beauchemin
November 1, 2016

Many of the most critical parts that make up industrial gas turbines (IGTs) have complex 5-axis geometries and very tight tolerances. 


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Optical Measurement: When & Why?

Optical measurement can solve certain challenges where other approaches cannot practically be applied.
Patrick Beauchemin
April 1, 2015

Quality engineers have a number of different technologies and approaches available today, each having their own strengths, to perform the measurement and inspection required to meet tight part tolerances and increasingly more stringent QC requirements.


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The Digital Optical Comparator Advances

The capabilities of the digital optical comparator have expanded to provide even more unique benefits over the traditional optical comparator.
Patrick Beauchemin
October 1, 2013

The introduction of the digital optical comparator has provided manufacturers across a wide range of industries with a number of benefits over traditional optical comparators for the inspection and measurement of manufactured parts directly on the shop floor.


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Video Measurement Continues to Evolve

Fred Mason
December 5, 2012

Advances in optical design make today’s video measurement systems faster, highly accurate, and far more capable.


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