Dimensional Inspection

A leading manufacturer produces headsets that are famous for their comfort and cutting-edge styling. Maintaining these qualities requires that suppliers provide parts that conform to the company’s design intent. The aggressive product schedule presents the challenge of quickly and accurately determining whether or not a continuous stream of first articles meets its requirements.

The implementation of a new inspection process based on laser scanning has helped a major manufacturer dramatically reduce first article inspection costs for its plastic injection molded parts.

A leading supplier of automobile components is using rapid prototyping and laser scanning to dramatically reduce the time required to produce precision fixtures for inspecting automotive components.

When Rus Emerick at Schneider Electric first used Laser Design’s laser scanning system, he expected to acquire clean, accurate scan data, and his expectations were more than met. What he didn’t expect was being able to use the same scan data in many ways, from design and first article inspection to functional forensics and even training, saving his company both time and money in the process

The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) hosted a series of workshops recently for area industries to learn about the advanced technology of the Laser Design FA-10P7 3D Laser Scanning system they recently purchased

The loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia because of damage to its thermal protection system (TPS) during launch spurred a search for methods of repairing the TPS in space. The most important and hardest part of the TPS to repair is the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) material ...

A local automotive after-parts manufacturer is now able to move products to market four weeks faster after switching from a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) to a laser scanner. When company engineers used a CMM to measure interior components, the limited number of points that they were able to acquire meant that several weeks were usually required to convert them to a surface model.

By adding a laser probe to a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), a major Belgian aerospace structures supplier has greatly increased the completeness of its inspections and obtains full documentation of the geometry of every component.

A Kentucky manufacturer builds a wide range of foam parts, and inspection of components with a CMM was a tedious and error-prone process because of the difficulty involved in making contact with the part without depressing the soft material.

GKS Inspection Services announced that it will be opening service bureau offices in Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY and in Los Angeles, CA in 2009.

GKS announced that the company’s Detroit-area metrology lab is now registered for the export and temporary import of items that are regulated by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and is now eligible to perform metrology and reverse engineering services on defense articles that appear on the United States Munitions List

GKS Global Services announced that is has changed its name from GKS Inspection Services to reflect the broader scope and range of GKS’s service offerings and worldwide locations.

Ask GKS’s veteran metrologists what is the most unusual scan they have ever performed and they can’t give you an answer—they can give you many!