The need to measure, to control and to quantify deviations has become critical in all stages of the product development cycle.
The ever increasing complexity in shapes, the diversity of materials, the shortened deadlines for manufacturing and minimum stocks are elements which drive the demand for optimisation of means of quality control.
Having understood that it was the measuring tools that needed to adapt to the operator’s workflow and not the other way around, Kreon worked in collaboration with leading metrology software editing companies to develop solutions that combined non-contact and contact measurement technologies.
This answers virtually all needs for quality control of parts and assemblies. The Kreon laser scanners make it possible to visualize deviations at a glance with color coded maps of deviations between a part and its CAD reference but also to perform real-time inspection of geometrical entities. Data density, fast measurement technology and regression algorithms result in considerable timesaving. Furthermore, tool path programming on a CNC measuring machine is much simpler to implement with a Kreon laser scanner than with the traditional contact probe. The non-contact measuring principle adds rapidity, flexibility and simplicity in the machine’s tool paths.
The time required to perform measurement of geometric features with a contact probe on sheet metal parts cut is least cut in half when using a Kreon laser scanner.
