The 2010 Formula One World Championship has seen a thrilling season and for Red Bull Racing the culmination of a few years hard work has seen their meteoric rise to the top of both the Constructors and Drivers championships. Hexagon Metrology has been working with Red Bull Technology for a number of years as one of Red Bull Racing’s Innovation Partners. Winning a Formula One race usually involves the difference between a few thousandths of a second, in quality terms we turn this into a few (…)

The new design of the reliable Werth ScopeCheck® CMM increases the standard of performance for shop floor measurement. The solid design of the column-type machine on a granite base provides the lowest measuring uncertainties and highest dynamics in CNC mode. Werth ScopeCheck® 400x200x200 3D-CNC Covered guideways and scales allow for use under rough manufacturing conditions as well. The measuring capacity of this economical range of products extends up to 400 mm in X axis and 200mm in Y (…)

Werth Messtechnik GmbH offers the reliable Werth VideoCheck©-IP 400 multisensor coordinate measuring machine in a new design. The constant tension guide way system of the X-Y measuring stage provides precision and long term stability. This technology is based on the design principles that have been used successfully since the nineteen seventies. . For over 50 years the name Werth has stood for the highest quality and precision in the field of dimensional measurement technology. The (…)

Hexagon Metrology today announced the immediate availability of new versions of the Tesastar-m and Tesastar-sm motorized probe heads for DEA and Brown & Sharpe coordinate measuring machines. These new variants of the popular motorized probe heads offer a 7.5 degree indexing increment for maximum compatibility with legacy products. . The new Tesastar-m and Tesastar-sm versions deliver -180 to +180 degrees of revolution and 0 to 105 degrees of pitch for a total of 720 indexable (…)

Hexagon Metrology GmbH in Wiener Neudorf expands to include a demonstration centre. From today Austrian customers have live access to the Hexagon Metrology product world. On 28 and 29 January 2010, the new Precision Center was officially opened by Per Holmberg, President of Hexagon Metrology Europe, and Holger Fritze, General Manager of Hexagon Metrology Germany and Austria. It is attached to Hexagon Metrology’s existing GmbH in Wiener Neudorf, south of Vienna. "With the new Precision (…)

This course has been developed to give attendees the background to perform Microsystem reliability characterization from the component to system levels. Initially, the fundamentals of mechanical, environmental, and reliability testing as applied to Microsystems will be presented. The focus begins with the characterization of single components and structures; these are illustrated with practical examples from industry. These procedures are applied to MEMS and Microsystem level reliability (…)

PC-DMIS 2009 is the latest version of the well known CAD-based metrology software. PC-DMIS 2009 is a family of software products covering a variety of metrology hardware platforms and solutions sold under the banner of Enterprise Metrology Solutions (EMS). PC-DMIS 2009 rolls out enhanced versions of PC-DMIS CMM and PC-DMIS Vision software, and also introduces new products such as PC-DMIS Planner and PC-DMIS Reporting Suite. A brand new software “Far from being simply an incremental release (…)

In the field of control, we saw a certain tendency to centralization in the 1990s and the development of quality assurance. If this evolution has certainly led to more quality, it has also shown the limits of the completely centralized controlling dept. i.e. bottleneck effects, loss of time and responsibility. Today, it is common to see a centralized control associated with controls in the workshops. Marcel Aubert AG is specialised in providing such solutions. Meeting in Bienne (Switzerland) (…)