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e-Xstream engineering, a unit of Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division, has been chosen by McLaren Racing to supply a materials data management system for its vehicles...

The current health and economic crisis is affecting all industries, without exception. Many factories are accelerating their production or transforming their processes to meet their urgent needs. Others are adapting their production rate...

In the last issue of Contrôles Essais Mesures magazine, we presented a hybrid dossier. Part of the content was published in the magazine, the other part on our...

Long reserved for the manufacturing industries (automotive, aeronautics, precision mechanics, etc.), SPC (Statistical Process Control) is now developing in the food industry. After...

In 2020, the mechanical engineering industries recorded sales of 120 billion euros, down 10.8 % on 2019 (compared with +1.7 % in 2019). Business in 2020 will be...

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence's Optiv 3.2.2 multi-sensor machine with palletizing mode offers precise, automated dimensional measurements of L'Oréal's caps and bottles, and enables the development of...

From prototyping to manufacturing, gain in productivity with the AT960, the LAS-XL and the T-Scan 5 Volvo Car Body Components (VCBC), based in Olofström, is an automotive plant of 2400...

Hydroelectric power plants around the world have been equipped with Voith Hydro components for over 140 years. As a full-service supplier of equipment for hydroelectric power plants, Voith...

A promising new 3D vision system now makes inspecting 3D parts as easy as using a 2D smart camera. Whereas optical 3D inspection used to require...

Microcertec, a pioneer in this approach Since its creation in 2004, Microcertec has been adding value to its precision-machined technical ceramic parts through thin-film metallization. The object is then...