High-hardness ferrous metal matrix composite (MMC) parts have been produced in a one-step 3D-printing process using a new nanosteel powder. The NanoSteel Company worked with an unnamed process development partner to adapt its nanosteel powders to laser sintering, producing a 99.9%…
So, your shiny new, state-of-the-art metrology system is up and running. What’s next on the agenda? Well, after you relax for a minute and admire your handiwork, starting some serious, in-depth planning for its replacement is probably not a bad…
The new Nikon LC15Dx steps up 3D scanning accuracy to deliver more in-depth insight into turbine blade aerofoil geometry and provide more accurate section and feature extraction. Renaissance Services is currently using Nikon 3D scanning on turbine blades. Read More
New QIF™ V1.0 Standard: A Significant Breakthrough for the Metrology Industry Burleson, Texas, USA December 23, 2013 —The (DMSC) Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium announced today the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved QIF v1.0 (Quality Information Framework, version 1.0)…
Attend the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)/Department of Defense (DoD) Model-Based-Enterprise (MBE) Summit to be held on the NIST Gaithersburg campus December 18-19, 2013. Visit website here……
Dan Z. Sokol, Renaissance Services Managing Partner, will be presenting an interim review of the VIVID project at the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC). The DMC is an annual event attended by over 1,000 people from the nation’s top aerospace &…
The presentations from the December 12 – 15, 2011 National Institute of Standards & Technology MBE/TDP Summit held in Gaithersburg, MD are available. The presentation from Lockheed Martin was very interesting.
Aberdeen recently published a research report on Closed Loop Quality Management, with a subtitle of “creating visibility and reducing risk in the supply chain”. While the report addresses some of the well-known issues with quality management systems, it’s interesting to…
While there aren’t statistically significant research reports available, the general word on the streets is that PC-DMIS represents greater than 50% of the marketplace. Does the future of a all CMM programming all run through this very expensive software package?
Hexagon has released as update of DataPage, which provides integration with PC-DMIS, the de facto standard CMM software. DataPage+ provides meaningful way to quickly share CMM data with shop floor appplications such as SPC.