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3D Scanning Anywhere: Race to Simplicity

After taking our 3D scanner out of the lab to hit the slopes and prove its accuracy, we are back with an exciting and brand-new experiment! We took the HandySCAN…

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Do You Have Trouble Measuring and Analyzing Large Parts?

You work in aerospace, transportation, energy, mining, or heavy industries. You manufacture large parts and assemblies, some with black or shiny surfaces. You want to measure these large parts with high accuracy and fine detail without having to move them from their production environment. And, above all, you don’t want to siphon off all your budget. If these sentences describe you, the blog below will surely be of interest.

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How to Improve, Optimize, and Accelerate First Article Inspection

First article inspection (FAI) is a crucial step in the manufacturing process. The quality control (QC) team needs to optimize this phase of inspection in order to limit the back and forth between conception and fabrication. The QC team must not only correctly identify the defects, but also provide relevant data, measurements, and results for solving the identified problems.

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What Is the Best 3D Scanner?

You have been tasked with buying a 3D scanner. The only problem is figuring out where to start your search. You know what 3D scanning is but don’t know enough…

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3D Scanning for Inspection: Are 3D Scanners A Smart Choice?

In this post, we want to offer you guidance on why choosing 3D scanning for inspection. We want to help you differentiate the different types of 3D scanners and metrology software, and choose the best one for your inspection needs. Finally, we want to explore how opting for 3D scanning can benefit your company and your customers.

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How Hyundai North America uses Creaform’s 3D scanners for product development and design

How Hyundai Design North America uses HandySCAN 3D for improving real-time design workflows Opened in January 2003 and located in Irvine, California, Hyundai Design North America’s design and technical center…

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Innovative 3D scanners for a competitive edge in automotive design

Automotive manufacturers and suppliers around the world have used portable 3D scanning systems for product development, vehicle design and quality assurance. Everything from individual components to complete vehicles can be measured.

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Inspecting complex aerospace parts with easy-to-use metrology solutions

While aerospace quality control workflows have greatly evolved over the past decade, due to the development of more complex parts, stricter tolerances, productivity pressures, challenges remain as to inspection efficiency.

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3D Scanning Supercharges the Design and Development of Supersports Car, GTA Spano

Spania GTA is on a mission to build a limited-production supersports, the Spania GTA Spano, with unmatched handling, advanced technology and innovative aesthetics.

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Behavioral measures for cable-driven parallel robots in the industrial environment

Recently, the Jules Verne Technological Research Institute (IRT) developed a new robot, belonging to the category of cable-driven parallel robots. The latter has been evaluated using Creaform technologies.

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3D Measurement Systems: An Alternative Solution to Visual Inspection Systems for Inline Inspection in Smart Factories

Performing bad inspections and delivering defective parts are scenarios that manufacturing companies want to avoid imperatively.

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Demystifying the difference between quality control and quality assurance

The differences between quality control, quality assurance and quality management systems. Get all the details on how quality concepts apply to manufacturers.

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Go!SCAN SPARK versus HandySCAN 3D | SILVER and BLACK Series

A guide through the differences between the HandySCAN 3D | BLACK and SILVER Series, and the Go!SCAN SPARK 3D Scanners, to get a better idea of which 3D scanner is the best choice for your needs and applications.

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HandySCAN 3D

HandySCAN BLACK combines high-performance 3D scanning with improved optics, multiple blue laser technology and a sleek, ergonomic design. Its distinctive simplicity and portability advantages are a staple of Creaform’s product line. As the company’s flagship portable metrology-grade 3D scanner, the HandySCAN BLACK sets the standard for measurement, regardless of size, material or complexity, within seconds anywhere.

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Automated Quality Control: More Precise, More Productive

With the constant pressure put on the market, both from the customers and competitors, the need to increase speed, efficiency and productivity is pushing many transport and automotive companies to…

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Les compagnies manufacturières peuvent augmenter leur productivité avec la robotique.

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Robots are invited to quality control: How to tie in metrology with robotics?

The optimization of manufacturing processes has become a priority for the vast majority of the automotive and aerospace industries. The parts designed, developed, and produced today are becoming more complex,…

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Full moto picture for 3D scanning Lunar project

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Inspection and design of composite parts in the automotive, aerospace, defense and railroad sectors

In collaboration with Carboni and Metalli, Bercella is creating an innovative motorcycle using composite components and the HandySCAN 3D Many companies in Italy were born, thanks to the dreams and…

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Quality Control of Composites in the Aerospace industry

Lufthansa Technik AG (LHT) is a provider of MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) services for aircraft and has 50 locations worldwide. LHT is wholly owned by Deutsche Lufthansa AG and…

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Flexible 3D Scanning in Research

The Chair for Aerospace Systems is an integrating chair dealing with the aircraft in its entirety and the integration within civil and/or military aviation. In addition to civil and military…

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HandySCAN 3D: 3D Scanning Adrenaline Rush in A Polaris Slingshot

SEMA Show 2019 is coming soon, and Creaform team could not be more excited to be back! Year after year, businesses, and enthusiasts from the automotive aftermarket industry gather in…

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3D Scanning Anywhere: Sky is The Limit

3D Scanning Anywhere is back for the last experiment of the year! After proving the HandySCAN 3D won’t lose any of its accuracy wherever it’s being used on the ground, Simon decided…

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Reaching the Perfect Balance Between Accuracy and Productivity

For several reasons, the role of a metrologist has evolved in recent years. First, metrologists must inspect increasingly complex parts, often composed of free forms and embellished with multiple finishes….

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3D Scanning Anywhere: Accuracy vs. Snowboarding

We already know that our 3D scanners work great in labs… And that our clients use 3D laser scanners for a really wide variety of very demanding applications. But…

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Tuning Industry: Creaform Creates a Brand New Market Opportunity

It’s a well-known fact that in Australia, like in England, people drive on the left side of the road, therefore the cars are configured to be driven right sided. While…

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Galileo looking to the universe with his telescope

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The history of metrology from Galileo to optical systems

Metrology originates from antiquity. The first forms of measurements were established to facilitate commerce and record human activity. Time, weight and length were the first standards formulated. Over the course…

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Artifact pots display at the National Museum of the Philippines in Manilla

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On the importance of Precision and Resolution for Academics and Museology

How important is the resolution of your 3D scanner? While the industrial world obviously also requires great accuracy and resolution, this need becomes paramount when it comes to applications related…

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Where will metrology be in 5-10 years ?

Metrology has come a long way since its conception during the era of the pharaohs. It has particularly evolved in the last 25 years with the advent of lasers, 3D…

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Quality control managers in the shop floor

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THE NEW SECRET WEAPON FOR QUALITY CONTROL MANAGERS

Quality control managers in the automotive and aerospace industries are responsible for ensuring that manufactured parts meet customers’ requirements, specifications, and tolerances. To do so, they rely on coordinate measuring…

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3D Printing: How the Diversification of Materials is Always Pushing the Limits

Think all 3D printers produce plastic parts? Well, (you know what’s coming…) think again! From 3D printing human tissue to metal, glass and even mashed potatoes, new materials seem to…

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IMTS 2014 conclusion: 3D Scanning is now a must in any manufacturing process

Imagine getting to work and your boss says: « We no longer need Internet at our desks. From now on, we’ll get what we need from the library. » That…

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The MetraSCAN 3D for automotive applications: 3D scanning right on the shop floor!

A major automotive manufacturer asked Creaform to 3D scan robot hands on their production line. This kind of tooling is used to manipulate embossed sheet metal that will be used…

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Product designers using 3D scanners for product development – from dream to reality!

3D found its way into different steps of the product design process, and has for many years. Whether it is for 1st developing the preliminary concept, proceeding with the ergonomics…

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Pipecheck is in the (big) news!

KGO-TV, the local ABC television station in San Francisco, featured one of Creaform technologies recently. Journalist Heather Ishimaru discussed how the Pacific Gas and Electricity Company, usually referred to as…

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Short-range 3D scanning technologies: an overview

According to engineer Dr. Mostafa Abdel-Bary Ebrahim “a 3D scanner collects distance information about surfaces within its field of view. The “picture” produced by a 3D scanner describes the distance…

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Creaform’s new Go!SCAN 3D Scanner Released !

We are absolutely thrilled to unveil our most recent accomplishment: the Go!SCAN 3D, a brand new handheld white light 3D scanner offering the easiest and fastest 3D scanning experience on…

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Building the world, one building at a time

If you have played around a little bit in Google Earth, you most likely noticed the 3D Buildings layer. This layer contains textured 3d models of buildings in many cities…

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