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 »
Category: Composites
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 »
SAMPE 2023
Join us at SAMPE 2023 booth M16. Our team is excited to show you how LASERVISION catches even hard-to-see FOD in real time and explain why LASERGUIDE costs you less and saves you more than any other laser projection system. We also invite you to attend Aligned Vision president Scott Blake’s tech presentation, “AI-Based Automatic… 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 »
How will companies accelerate quality manufacturing in 2023? An interview with Scott Blake
Reading time < 4 minutes “Achieving the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for laser projection” is how Aligned Vision president Scott Blake summarizes what he and the Aligned Vision team heard from you throughout 2022. At trade shows, customer visits and other venues, we listened to what you had to share about your experience… Read more »
How to Expedite the Qualification Process for New Quality Monitoring Technology
Reading time < 4 minutes Anyone who has traversed the qualification process for a new manufacturing technology knows just how lengthy and complex these processes can be. The uninitiated may be surprised to learn that implementing a new technology takes many more steps than they might have anticipated. In reality, qualifying a new manufacturing technology… Read more »
Banishing Foreign Object Debris (FOD) from Your Production Scene
Reading time < 4 minutes “Foreign object debris” (FOD) may not be the term that devotees of the Game of Thrones series would use, but most still remember the Starbucks cup that escaped the cutting room floor and made its way to TV screens across the world in the series finale. As an analogy to… Read more »
Three Great Ways to Benefit from Automatic Inspection Data
Reading time < 3 minutes The benefits of automatic inspection extend well beyond the technology’s lights-out speed and greater accuracy compared to manual inspection. This is because of one obvious difference between the two: automatic inspection technologies like LASERVISION produce data, and lots of it. Manufacturers of large, complex components and subassemblies are quickly leveraging… Read more »