Measurement & Inspection Photo courtesy Bruce Morey and MicroPulse
MicroPulse uses both quality labs as well as shop-fl oor installed CMMs, accessed by both quality technicians and machinists in their medical device manufacturing facility.
to validate processes, even as we see smaller lots and ever tighter tolerances.” Today, nanometer–level measurement repeatability is a common requirement with some manufacturers. That level of precision was unheard of 10 years ago. OGP offers their Smart-
Scope Specialist 300 for the medical fi eld. It features an array of sensor options including telecentric zoom optics, touch probe, TeleStar telecentric interferometric TTL laser, microprobes, rotary tables, and continuous-contact scanning probe. Accuracy is down to 1.5 + 5L/1000 µm, to the ISO 10360 standard. Another device useful on the shop fl oor that OGP recently introduced is its SNAP digital measuring system. Shop-hard- ened, it has no moving parts and quickly measures in 2-D to an accuracy of 5 + L/150 µm, to the ISO 10360 standard. “We felt the ergonomics of how to use measuring equip- ment is becoming more important, which is certainly true in the medical fi eld,” says Murray, even though the SNAP is a general-purpose machine. “SNAP features AutoCorrelate, recognizing the part it measures regardless of the orienta- tion. This reduces [or eliminates] the need for special jigs or fi xtures to hold parts,” says Murray.
Long-term use of data is another trend in medical. “We are well past the point where we look at measurement data,
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