Sharpe Products, an ISO 9001:2008 registered company and a provider of custom pipe and tube bending and fabricating services, has one of the latest inspection machines in the industry, the Tube Inspect S. The Tube Inspect S is an optical tube measuring system that does high precision measurement of tubes. This process is done by placing a tube in a measuring optical cell where 16 high resolution cameras then measure the tube geometry in only a few seconds. This tube inspect can measure parts up to 4 feet in 1 step, plus or minus .1mm.
This technology is directly linked to the CNC bending machines and determines what the set-up and correction data needs to be. If corrections need to be made to the part, changes are directly transmitted to the CNC bending machine. When production changes to new models, new set-up procedures are no longer necessary. What this means for you, the customer, is more flexibility for your project when it is in production. Savings on labor costs because of the direct links to the benders determining if there needs to be corrective action, and a high quality made part.
Other capabilities of the Tube Inspect S include reverse engineering and inspection of sample parts.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 5:23:00 PM