A setup like this one is commonly used to measure the hole or its location using front lighting. The precision for measuring the diameter and the distance is not the same. This article will attempt to help you make this decision.
Setup
Dot calibration target. The dimension has 0.001mm accuracy.
Precision Manufacturing and Equipment Inc established a physical facility from January 2020 to serve the growing need for development and prototyping. The new facility is located at Rensselaer Technology Park, Troy NY. We installed a new milling machine at this newly established facility and established an imaging application development lab.
Peak-to-Valley (PV) and Root-Mean-Square (RMS) are two common parameters used to measure the difference between an ideal optic surface to the actual optic surface. Historically the PV is used more often than RMS but RMS is a much better method for measuring the feat of an optic. Neither one of them are perfect parameters to fully calculate the optics’ performance.
Precision Manufacturing and Equipment Inc has been incorporated in May 2018. This will replace the old Kai Engineering.
Live chart is commonly needed for process monitoring. EtherCAT's fast data rate makes it possible to have very dynamic live chartiing capability. In one of recent project, I tried the live chart from a very simple QT live charting mechanism. The data used for live chart is exchanged through ADS communication interface. The chart itself is realized from QT's standard line chart. It is surprisingly easy to do this with both tools, simple and yet powerful.
Tuning servo is a basic skill in automation and machine building. There is tuning by ears and eyes (who know how good this is). There is also tuning by performance factor. The fundamental key is the good understanding of PID control. P is proportional gain, adding. I is integration gain, reducing. D is derivative gain, anticipating. For servo tuning, the following error and derived charts are key for good visual understanding of the system performance.
