Racing to Create Custom Pistons
Laser scanning technology enables this automotive aftermarket company to design and machine custom sets of pistons in short order.

Applying Inductive Technology to Detect Grinding Burn
This sensor-based technology for gear measuring machines quickly detects grinding burn and other imperfections on the surface of ground gears and related components.

New GM Appointed at Wenzel/Xspect
Metrology supplier Wenzel Group GmbH has appointed Andy Woodward as the new general manager of North American operations for Wenzel/Xspect Solutions, the company’s Wixom, Michigan-based subsidiary.

CMM Rental Program Requires No Purchase Commitment
Xspect Solutions (Wixom, Michigan) has introduced a new rental program for X-Orbit CMMs produced in the United States. Keith Mills, president of Xspect Solutions, says the program was created to help manufacturers that are struggling to justify new capital equipment purchases as program schedules and quantities for parts suppliers shrink. Through the Rent2Measure program, manufacturers can use a Wenzel X-Orbit CMM with a Renishaw PH10T/TP20 probe on their shop floors for 6 to 36 months.

Wenzel/Xspect To Deliver Mammoth CMM
Vancouver Gear Works in Richmond, British Columbia has purchased what is believed to be North America’s largest gear measuring machine from the Wenzel GearTech Division of Wenzel/Xspect Solutions. The machine, a model LHF CMM 20. 60.

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Measuring The Benefits Of Mechanical Accuracy
Recently, with widespread use of error mapping to compensate for mechanical variations, the focus has shifted away from the physical parameters of gages and CMMs.