 The QC Group has taken another step to provide the highest level of customer satisfaction for scanning services. Now QC has expanded its capabilities to include chromatic white light interferometry. This technology is based on the confocal measurement principle and works using chromatic depth scanning. White light is refracted differentially depending on its wavelength in order to carry out distance measurements and to capture 3D geometry.
The technology greatly enhances QC’s commitment to serving precision tooling designers and manufacturers. Now the quality of a micro-scan can be produced for scanning highly reflective tooling inserts, transparent materials, and microstructures without prepping the part surface in any way. This improves the accuracy of the CAD model and CAD comparisons that result from the scan.
The QC Group will be providing this service at the start of 2012. |
QC Invests in Chromatic White Light Technology
QC Launches Containment/Sort Division
I had yet another request for a trusted resource to support our customer in a containment/sort activity. This one was like many of the others – “I’m hoping QC can help me because we need someone we can trust, whom we can meet face to face, and who we know will be there for us year after year”.
We’ve listened.
At QC we strive to be more than hearers only, but doers as well. Therefore, we’ve launched our Containment/Sort Division to serve that specific need in the marketplace – a trusted resource with a long-standing quality reputation. We’ve developed the processes and dedicated the people necessary to provide a rapid response in time of need. QC’s knowledge of dimensional inspection and expert quality improvement will be an important backdrop for customers in need of containment services.
QC will continue to expand to fulfill the specific needs of our valued customers; taking each one to the next step of product development and quality improvement.
You Saved My Life
“You saved my life”.
When I was a boy I wanted to be a fireman. The thrill of racing to the scene, sirens blaring. Spraying water on an intense inferno. Wearing that hat. Performing a miraculous rescue. And hearing those words, “You saved my life”.
For the second time in as many weeks I’ve heard that phrase “You saved my life” coming from another one of our inspection customers. We do precision dimensional inspection, laser scanning, training, and staffing of source inspectors. Our people wear a lot of hats. But not usually the hat of a fireman, since we’re not in the lifesaving business. Yet many of our customers keep saying we are.
That’s almost as good as being a fireman.
Measuring Objects in Motion
Have any of you had experience measuring x,y,z coordinates of objects in a dynamic state? This request has come up a few times: How do you capture the physical 3D coordinates of an object in motion – throughout its dynamic range such that the dimensional positions affected by mass and acceleration are taken into account?
