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When All You Have Is a Hammer: Key Considerations When Evaluating Appropriate Tools for Quality Inspections
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When All You Have Is a Hammer: Key Considerations When Evaluating Appropriate Tools for Quality Inspections

It is vitally important that quality inspectors maintain a clear understanding of what tools are available and appropriate for any feature inspection. Most features of size could be measured with any of a half dozen different tools. Deciding which tools to use and, more importantly, which tools not to use is essential to ensuring the accuracy, repeatability, and establishing confidence in your report.

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LK Metrology expands into industrial CT by acquiring ProCon X-Ray
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LK Metrology expands into industrial CT by acquiring ProCon X-Ray

Through this acquisition, LK Metrology can now offer its customers an even wider range of products for inspection and measurement from a single source, from traditional CMMs, portable measuring arms and laser scanners to high-resolution X-ray equipment and CT analysis.

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AMETEK to Acquire FARO Technologies
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AMETEK to Acquire FARO Technologies

AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) and FARO Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FARO) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AMETEK will acquire all outstanding shares of FARO Technologies common stock for $44 per share in cash, which represents an approximate 40% premium to FARO’s closing price on May 5, 2025. The transaction values FARO at an enterprise value of approximately $920 million. The boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved the transaction.

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New PRESTO Quality Stations Redefine Smart Inspection Workflows
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New PRESTO Quality Stations Redefine Smart Inspection Workflows

Providing major advances in high-resolution scanning for faster, highly versatile manufacturing quality control, Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division has announced the launch of two major advances in automated large-component quality inspection that make its turnkey PRESTO Quality Stations accessible to manufacturers that need to improve productivity but face budget and skills constraints.

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Why do you Drill Holes in your Turbine Blades
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Why do you Drill Holes in your Turbine Blades

It's just the way life goes: You have a super important task and nobody knows about it. The best example is cooling holes in turbine blades. Very few people even know that they exist. Let alone what they are used for. Yet it is precisely these cooling holes that not only increase efficiency but also save lives in the aviation industry.

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