The compressors used at NEAC’s Übach-Palenberg, Germany plant run so hard and fast that, if they were the pistons in a car engine, that auto would rack up nearly 500,000 miles every year – representing 333 days of uninterrupted driving. Oh, and the engine would receive only one service check-up each year. This example illustrates [...]
API Services offers in house and on-site 3D laser scanning. We have the ability, utilizing a multitude of laser scanning instruments that best fit your application, to reverse engineer your part, mold, tooling gauge or model. Our API Axxis 7 arm equipped with a Kreon laser scanner easily jumps locations around this Boeing 737 model [...]
New Speaker’s Announced for API’s Global Conference and Workshop! Learn from industry leaders how advances in new technology have changed their manufacturing, inspection and quality control processes. William George, U.S. Department of Defense Bill George is a System Electronics Engineer for the Air Force and a Subject Matter Expert in electronic and mechanical parts for [...]
Antennas are used for the transition of guided electromagnetic waves into free space, and antenna metrology takes place at exactly this interface. ORBIT/FR offers turnkey solutions in this area for aerospace, automotive and telecommunication fields, as well as for the defence sector. Whichever of the solutions offered by ORBIT/FR comes into question for a specific [...]
Quick turnaround has rapidly become a staple in decision making when companies seek out service providers. A major downfall with this is the results may come back skewed or inaccurate. As a precision measurement service company, API Services constantly strives to provide the most cost and time efficient solutions for our customers. We put this to the [...]
Wind power is more than an emerging industry. Wind energy is recognized as a sector poised for dramatic growth in the coming years. Its potential has drawn many upstarts to move into the market, and more established players to expand their operations. To succeed, companies must differentiate themselves – and the quality of their products. [...]
It is a paradox of manufacturing that objects requiring the most complex and precise three-dimensional (3D) measurements often offer the least freedom of movement, making it difficult to obtain such readings. Cockpit equipment, filling systems, aircraft parts and railroad cars are all such examples of objects that require very precise measurements in their construction but also have large [...]
Tracking the future Very rarely is a research area as dependent on 3D measurement technology in the setup of its major experiments as fusion plasma physics. When one realizes how highly complex these systems are, and how deeply industrial portable 3D laser metrology measurement technology, and in particular the mobile variants – highly-developed laser trackers, [...]
The video about shows you how to do a four point QVC (Quick Volumetric Calibration). The purpose of the four point QVC is to tighten your encoder angles and ensure that the front and backsight measurements are within tolerance. Once your tracker is warmed up please open your TrackerCal software that is provided on the [...]
API turns 25 this year and API’s 25th Anniversary Global Conference and Workshop, rather than look back at how far we’ve come, we’d like you to join leading builders and thinkers to discuss what the next 25 years will bring in metrology, quality assurance, and productivity advances. You are invited to API’s 25th Anniversary 2013 Global Conference & [...]
