Phase Vision expands range of applications for Quartz shopfloor 3D scanners

These include the incorporation of software tools which deliver an even easier to use data analysis toolkit for both shopfloor inspection and reverse engineering applications. The Quartz scanner is an area-based optical measurement system. It rapidly gathers meshes of measurements (or point clouds), allowing inspection to be applied where it has not traditionally been economic. Quartz scanners operate by illuminating an object with a sequence of SmartFringe patterns, and measuring that sequence with a camera. There must be an angle between the camera and projector – and both must be able to 'see' the object being measured. This defines the limits of measurement volume. This is often described as a cube, centred at the stand-off distance in front of the scanner. Application areas for the Quartz technology include aerospace and automotive engineering. Interest is also emerging within the offshore, energy and materials engineering sectors, says Phase Vision, and the scanner is proving successful for measuring composites that have challenged other optical measurement technologies. Quartz systems are available on a contract measurement basis, on system hire or an installed system basis.