INSTRUMENTATION ELECTRONICS


The machine is mainly


designed for control and quality checks, ensuring all product dimensions are accurate


The Baty Venture FV series fi eld of view inspection machine


QUALITY CONTROL A


Jake Holmes looks at some of the machinery safeguarding the quality of precision products


s product designs grow increasingly complex, the need to check and validate these designs continues to


grow. Precision parts manufacturers can design parts that are measured in nanometres, a scale too small to be assessed with the human eye. The desire for eff iciency has led


designers to maximise all space available to them, meaning a single nanometre can be the diff erence between a part working and failing. Having a high level of quality assurance on parts is also becoming


increasingly vital to companies. Bowers Group has developed


its new Baty Venture FV series, a range of inspection machines. The fi eld-of-view machine standout is the FV3020, named as such for its measuring range of 300 by 200 along the XY axis. FV3020 features a dual fi eld of view


which has a three-micron accuracy on its large fi eld of view, or a one-micron accuracy on its small fi eld of view. The machine is mainly designed for control and quality checks, ensuring all product dimensions are accurate.


SPEED IS KEY The FV3020 stands out due to the speed with which it can capture information and assess parts. In high-volume production environments, quality assurance mechanisms need to match the speed of production to avoid creating a bottleneck eff ect. With the machine, it only takes a single second to capture a thousand dimensions of a product or part, speeding up the quality control process signifi cantly. Meanwhile, batch inspections can be completed in seconds.


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