Practical Tip-Why to Use Multisensor Technology-QZ 12.2017

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The term “visual sensor” denotes all sensors which, similar to the human eye, pick up at least a two-dimensional image of the object being measured. The intensity distribution of this optical image is detected and evaluated by a sensor. For […]

The sensors of a coordinate measuring machine are used to pick up the primary signal from the workpiece. They are designed using mechanical and, in some cases, opto-electronic and software components of varying complexity. The sensors must be selected on […]

For higher precision requirements and larger measuring ranges, the mechanical guide way of the desktop model is replaced by systems with air bearings.  The high-precision guide ways are typically made of a natural hard stone material like granite.  All moving […]

The Mechanical components of this group of instruments were created as a logical further development of measuring microscopes and measuring projectors.  They primarily consist of a mechanical stage with mechanical bearings (Fig. 5a).  The Z axis also runs on mechanical […]

The measuring projector combines the advantages of the measuring microscope with those of the profile projector.  On its ground screen, the image can be compared with a drawing just as quickly as with a profile projector.  Since it is equipped […]

The measuring microscope is considered to be the “father” of all coordinate measuring machines. Here, a microscope and the human eye are used as a “sensor”. The operator uses a reticle integrated in the beam path to aim at the points of […]

Coordinate measuring machines are used to measure geometric features of workpieces such as size, diameter, angle, angularity and parallelism. In principle, relatively complex shape, size and position measurements are reduced to the determination and mathematical evaluation of the spatial coordinates […]

Up until a few years ago optical (or non-contact) dimensional metrology was dominated by measuring microscopes and projectors which had remained more or less unchanged since the development of the profile projector (below). However, the automatic measurement of geometric features […]