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News Release from: Aberlink | Subject: Optical measuring device
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2006
Optical measuring device is very
accurate
An optical measuring device is based on a revolutionary, patented, colour-matrix scale, a novel approach, which allows X,Y and rotational positions to be plotted with extreme levels of accuracy.
An optical measuring device is based on a revolutionary, patented, colour-matrix scale, a novel approach, which allows X,Y and rotational positions to be plotted with extreme levels of accuracy UK-based Aberlink are reporting excellent early sales of their recently launched, groundbreaking Project X
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Aug 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company's new Optical Measuring device is based on a revolutionary, Aberlink patented, Colour-Matrix scale.
This unique approach allows X,Y and rotational positions to be plotted with extreme levels of accuracy.
Although the robust new unit boasts a large measuring capacity of 400 x 300mm with 125mm of motorised Z axis focus, it occupies a relatively small foot-print and is equally at home within an inspection department or on a shop-floor.
Retailing for the same price as a conventional profile projector, yet delivering vastly more functionality and improved accuracy, Aberlink's latest, non-contact offering has already been sold to a wide variety of industries.
A smooth air-bearing system, high inertia adjustment hand-wheels and automatic edge detection helps ensure Project X's class-leading accuracy and ease of operation, The new unit's advanced Telecentric's Lens means that operational metrology is not reliant on focus, whilst a 19in flat screen, high-resolution monitor guarantees that all displayed images and graphics are crisp and clear.
Further improving speed of operation, a fast digital magnification facility, negates the need to changes lenses.
Project X's controller boasts a huge memory and rapid processing power, enabling Aberlink's own intuitive software to generate full graphical and tabulated reports at the 'click' of a mouse.
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