Attending JEC World 2024? Visit Aligned Vision booth 5N44. Our laser projection and automatic inspection experts will be available to discuss your manufacturing challenges and show you how our digital quality tools will eliminate quality escapes from your fabrication floor. Stop by for a demo or contact us for a meeting. See you in Paris!
Category: Composites
Composite manufacturing: Closing the digital gap
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 we were called Assembly Guidance),… Read more »
How to get good data: Tips for 3D automatic inspection
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 are otherwise achieving new speed… 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
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 primary questions: When 3D laser… 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
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 fabrication floors still depends on… Read more »
How will companies accelerate quality manufacturing in 2023? An interview with Scott Blake
“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 with laser projection, automatic inspection… Read more »
How to Expedite the Qualification Process for New Quality Monitoring Technology
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 for application to your shop… Read more »
Banishing Foreign Object Debris (FOD) from Your Production Scene
“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 the problem of foreign object… Read more »