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
7 Pop Culture Robots We’d Like to Re-Calibrate
Going back as far as the works of Plato and Homer, moving statues made of gold and bronze marked some of the earliest recorded robots in human art. In literature, television, movies, comic books, and more over the centuries, robots and androids (a term popularized by...
API Helps Tacquet Accurately Machine 7M Turbine Wheel Casing
MSP, Radian Laser Tracker Provide Measurements to Ensure Proper Machine Rotation Onsite machining, or in field machining, is one of the greatest innovations in the last few decades of industrial manufacturing. There are many fixtures and machines across every...