Last week, as I was delivering a set of checking fixtures to a customer, he told me that it was the first time that he received the checking fixture before the injection mould. Although this is how things should be, since it is a basic and essential point, this is scarcely the case, which is a big mistake....

HandyScan is one of the tools for digitalizing parts and surfaces that have been most successful and gone most popular over the past few years, and have even managed in some cases to overthrow the traditional tridimensionals. It is a hand scanner, totally portable and user-friendly. It has very different...

The referencing or alignment of a checking fixture can be done in two different ways: geometric system or 3 points system. - GEOMETRIC - This term refers to the alignment system composed of plan, straight line, point. On a mathematic point of view, this system is the most correct. For this system, you...

While I was surfing on the Net, I saw that one of our providers has got a very interesting product for some of our customers, called TubeInspect (pdf catalogue) that consists of a 3D optical system enabling to measure tubes of any diameter, shape and matter. It makes a dimensional check of the tube It...

The unawareness of the functionality and use of checking fixtures, low prices or the wish to get a high margin can be reasons to use materials of poor quality or uncertain origin that will probably not give good results on the long term. Getting a good reputation is something difficult and slow to get,...

To carry out the fabrication of a checking fixture in an optimal way, its manufacturing has to be taken into account when designing it. If we design something that is not manufacturable, then it will be impossible to get what had been initially designed, and the concept will be useless. Understanding...

One cannot pretend that someone without the specific training for the use of a checking fixture, and without the instructions for it, could use it without any problems. Some guidelines or user manuals must be created to specify the process to follow for a correct use. This is the only way to get good...

It is important to foresee the launching of checking fixtures early enough. Just like production means like moulds or matrixes are planned, why not planning the launching of checking fixtures at the same time? Once we are over a barrel, we usually say things like: “I need something quick and simple...

Since the automotive sector is constantly submitted to pressure to reduce costs and deadlines (which come down to the same thing…), metrology and checking fixtures do not escape this trend. Dimensional metrology and quality control have always been present in the industrial production chain, and in...

Anodizing is an electrochemical process that can also be applied to checking fixtures to give them better aesthetic and mechanical properties finishings. This superficial treatment can only be carried out on aluminium; it is a forced oxidation thanks to which the base aluminium generates an aluminium...