Metrology
NEW AUTOMATED BALLOONING AND REPORTING SERVICE
To help manufacturers improve traceability, accuracy and efficiency, industrial metrology specialist The Sempre Group has announced a new automated ballooning and reporting service. As an addition to its existing contract measurement support, the company will now automatically balloon any part drawing for customers, providing the relevant dimensions and standardising the reporting process so that manufacturers can confidently proceed with production.
industrial quality control, is proud to announce SmartScope E45, a floor model addition to the all-new SmartScope E- Series family of Automatic Digital Zoom Metrology Systems.
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templates with all the dimensional data. Meanwhile, manual ballooning and handwriting inspection reports is time-consuming and vulnerable to human error. In highly regulated industries such as medical and aerospace, such errors cannot be tolerated.
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As part of the new service, Sempre’s engineers use High QA Inspection Manager to automatically balloon customer component prints to extract the geometric data. If the customer has already installed the software, Sempre will provide the inspection files so that they can reuse the data pack for repeat measurement jobs in their facility. However, if they do not have the software, its team will offer a PDF of the ballooned drawing and an inspection plan template, so that the manufacturer can check that all dimensions are present and correct. The new service is available as a standalone inspection package to help customers get a head start on a New Product
utomatic ballooning of engineering drawings error-proofs the first article inspection (FAI) process by highlighting any missing elements, removing ambiguity and populating
Introduction (NPI). Alternatively, Sempre will offer the service as part of a wider contract measurement support program for customers. “If done efficiently, ballooning and digitising of drawings can streamline the first article inspection process, ensure traceability and save manufacturers time in the long run,” explains Peter Jones, applications engineer at The Sempre Group. “There is also a trust factor – we can present standardised, professional inspection reports that are secure and that we can share easily with them. Many of our customers see us as an extra arm of their inspection team.” “We are also using Prolink SPC data collection software as part of the new service,” adds fellow applications engineer Kevin Hall. “As soon as a part is measured, this data is collected and uploaded onto Prolink so that everyone can access it and create inspection reports for customers. In many manufacturing firms, there are parts all over the shelves, because they are producing faster than they can assess. However, our new service means they can outsource inspection with confidence.”
The Sempre Group
www.thesempregroup.com
With the launch of the benchtop model SmartScope E7 in September 2022, OGP reimagined their trusted SmartScope line- up to be accessible for all skill levels and budgets. Along with E7, E45 features the brand-new fixed lens IntelliCentric optical system – a fully telecentric optical system providing super high-resolution images, perfectly suited for video edge detection metrology. The digital zoom allows for instantaneous magnification changes, while the standard all-LED lighting system illuminates parts from all angles. E45 features a generous stage to handle large parts or a variety of smaller parts. Jim Stern, director of OGP Applications Engineering, remarks, “SmartScope E45 combines innovative optical design, advanced camera technology, and OGP’s class-leading image processing algorithms. E45 has the same feature size range as mechanical zoom optical systems, but without moving parts, increasing throughput and system longevity. The IntelliCentric optical system produces outstanding optical performance at low zoom, with fantastic image quality, telecentricity, and distortion-free imaging.”
Optical Gaging Products (OGP)
www.ogpnet.com
August 2023 Instrumentation Monthly
PRECISION MULTISENSOR METROLOGY SYSTEM
ptical Gaging Products (OGP), a leading manufacturer of optical and precision multisensor metrology systems for
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