Inspection equipment has greatly advanced in the past 30 years from scribe lines and height gages to CMM and Renishaw touch probes.
Non-Contact inspection, utilizing a CMM equipped with a 3-mirror laser scanner is part of O’Fallon Casting’s Digital Product Definition capability, allowing a casting to be inspected relative to the customer supplied solid model.
Non-Contact inspection is less expensive yet highly accurate, providing infinitely more inspection information than by traditional point-inspection methods.