Cross-Sectional Scanning Key in Molder's Competitive Strategy

To compete in the shrinking domestic tooling market, Matrix Tooling applies CSS to first article inspection... PDF

Cross-Sectional Scanning Slashes Inspection Time and Labor

A quality expert discovers that automated process cuts labor costs by 80 percent and inspection time by 60 percent... PDF

Cross-Sectional Scanning Delivers 100 Percent Inspection for Thorough Assessment of Complex Molded Parts

Traditional inspection tools may yield an incomplete assessment of injection molded parts. And with a direct correlation of time to measurement points, more data may be impractical or impossible... PDF

All-Inclusive First Article Inspection Completed Faster

Cross-Sectional Scanning breaks the link between time and the number of parts or inspection points. It also severs dependency on the flawless inspection plans required by conventional technologies... PDF

Pinpoint the True Cause of Failure

Quality problems will arise and parts will fail to meet spec. The failure may be due to an oversight in first article inspection; worn or aging tooling; or a change in molding suppliers. To fix the problem, you need to determine the true root cause... PDF

High Definition Reverse Engineering

Legacy parts, digital archival and as-built documentation are examples of reverse engineering applications on which companies have come to depend. They are also examples that stretch the capabilities of contact and non-contact measurement tools... PDF

Managing Measurement Uncertainty

Minimizing and managing uncertainty requires a comprehensive view of the instrument, operator, part, methods and environment.  While controlling these influences will reduce error, the best practice is to eliminate the influences altogether. Cross-Sectional Scanning does just that... PDF

Inspection and Reverse Engineering with Cross-Sectional Scanning 

Cross-Sectional Scanning is unsurpassed in its ability to capture internal and external geometry of small and complex plastic injection molded parts.  With a total system accuracy of 0.0008" and up to 10:1 savings in inspection labor.... PDF