Industry Focus – Industrial Robots
From George Devol’s Unimation patent in 1961 all the way to the groundbreaking innovations in smart robotics we see from Fanuc and Boston Dynamics today, Industrial Robots have steadily taken a larger role in manufacturing, assembly, and inspection applications across...
Experience the unveiling of World Firsts – API at Control Show 2022
At the CONTROL 2022 Exhibition, May 3 – 6 Stuttgart Germany, API will present its portfolio of ‘Dimensional Metrology Tools for Automation’ allowing for the seamless integration of metrology into smart manufacturing. API will present world firsts on Dimensional...
Employee Profile: Chris Baker
Name: Chris Baker Position: General Manager – North American Sales Years with the company: 7 Years 1) What was your childhood like? Extremely blessed. Dad was coaching my baseball team, and I could look over to see...
Industry Focus: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)s are aerial vehicles operated by radio remote control and programmed control devices. UAVs can primarily be divided into four categories: fixed-wing UAVs, rotary-wing UAVs, umbrella-wing UAVs, and unmanned airships. The concept of a UAV...
Employee Profile: Ron Hicks
Name: Ron Hicks Position: Vice President, Sales and Service Years with the company: 11 1) What was your childhood like? I lived in the country, so my friends and I traveled all over on our bikes exploring. We left in the morning and didn’t come home until dinner. We...
Dr. Lau/NIST
39 years ago, a visionary young engineer, newly bestowed with his doctorate, began working at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), which would later become known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). By the fall of that year, Dr. Kam...
5 Axis Machine Tool Volumetric Error Compensation
Since the first machine tools were made more than 200 years ago to make manufacturing faster, more accurate, and more standardized, machine tools have needed calibration to verify their performance is as desired. These calibrations have evolved over the centuries from...
API & MLT Cooperate for 3D Measurement Systems in Finland and Norway
