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Joel
Martin is a product manager for Leica Geosystems Metrology Division
(Unterentfelden, Switzerland). For more information, e-mail
Joel.Martin@leica-geosystems.com, call +41 62 737 67 88 or visit
www.leica-geosystems.com.
The time is the late 1960s. Detroit muscle cars roam the streets. Woodstock is just around the corner. Passenger air travel is growing at an unprecedented rate.
The manufacturing industry continues to push the conventional boundaries of creating larger and more complex parts. The potential for costly errors also increases exponentially when producing large-scale, intricate components and assemblies.
There are major technology disruptions afoot in the world of conventional portable metrology. For the better part a decade, 6DoF laser tracking has been the standard go-to technology for metrologists in the large-scale manufacturing sectors.
Laser trackers have long been the portable metrology tool of choice for companies serving the aerospace, automotive and other large-scale manufacturing sectors.
Laser
tracking systems entered the manufacturing marketplace in 1991. At the time,
pundits speculated the new mobile measurement system was just a passing fad,
unstable and expensive. More than 15 years later, laser tracking has withstood
the test of time with several thousand installations worldwide. The technology
has established itself as a standard-issue metrology tool for in-place
inspection of large parts and assemblies in both the automotive and aerospace
industries. Major inroads are being made in other precision industry
applications that require accuracies of a couple thousands of an inch.