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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
PSP Engineering, one of the best equipped manufacturing companies in the Czech Republic, has been planning and building cement factories, lime works, crushing and screening plants, and processing facilities for coal and ores plant worldwide for more than 50 years. The main products of PSP Engineering are rotary kilns, mills and crushers for cement and [...]
The most modern and the largest nuclear power station of the world with an output of 1.600 MWatts relies on German technology. At Siemens, blades are installed to the rotor and measured in the housing during the final assembly of turbine manufacturing. With a difference of just tenths of a millimeter, this is a balancing act [...]
