Category: Blog

Raising weld quality and speed takes more than laser projection

If your shop relies on manual or paper-driven weld quality management activities, then upgrading to laser projection will bring proven model-driven efficiencies to your setup operations. If you are already using laser projection or if you are ready to digitalize both guidance and inspection operations, you’ll gain a great competitive edge and rapid ROI with LASERVISION’s proven technology.

How to implement automatic in-process inspection: A step-by-step guide

Automatic in-process inspection offers such immense advantages over manual inspection, one might wonder why it hasn’t already been implemented across the manufacturing world. But we get it. As with almost any new technology for the shop floor, any hesitancy probably stems from legitimate concerns about the implementation process. What does it take to develop an… Read more »

In-process inspection of large components: Doing what metrology, profilometry and smart cameras can’t

Reading time < 4 minutes In-process inspection technologies have advanced considerably over the past decade, with many manufacturers performing inspection with smart cameras, profilometry, automated metrology systems and more. Such advancements are impressive but limited when it comes to large works-in-progress (WIPs). Picking up where these technologies drop off, LASERVISION has been designed specifically for... Read more »

Composite manufacturing: Closing the digital gap

Reading time < 4 minutes As composite manufacturing has advanced over the years, it has experienced a striking imbalance in the maturity of digital technologies. Computers have performed design and engineering tasks for decades, while paper plybooks and travelers are still used in many shops to guide composites fabrication. Since our founding in 1988 (when… Read more »

How to get good data: Tips for 3D automatic inspection

Reading time < 3 minutes As more and more automation is used to manufacture large components, relying on human beings and a set of rudimentary measuring tools to inspect works in progress (WIPs) seems more and more antiquated. More important, manual inspection on automated manufacturing floors now represents the bottleneck of bottlenecks for industries that… Read more »

How to evaluate a laser projection system

Reading time < 4 minutes When it’s time to purchase new laser projectors, the choice of which projectors to buy often simply comes down to cost. But that’s where the simple part ends! Though the projectors themselves may look pretty similar from vendor to vendor, their actual value is determined by the answers to three… Read more »

SEEKING: YOUR INSPECTION CHALLENGES

Whether you are making the transition from manual inspection or looking for an automatic inspection system more effective than profilometers, smart cameras or metrology, consider partnering with Aligned Vision to solve your inspection challenges with LASERVISION. LASERVISION offers a unique set of features to solve your toughest inspection challenges: Detect difficult-to-see attributes on large works-in-progressLASERVISION’s… Read more »

Driving composites quality programs toward Industry 4.0

Reading time < 5 minutes Industry 4.0 for composites is attainable in 2023. If your reaction to this statement is skepticism, not only are you not alone; you are probably in the majority of composites industry professionals. This is especially true when it comes to in-process composites quality programs. After all, quality assurance on most… Read more »