Robots are critical to the speed and efficiency of automotive production lines. They help control costs and ensure the quality of today’s automobiles by quickly and reproducibly performing repetitive tasks such as part handling and welding. But to ensure the quality of the end product, every aspect of every part—planes, slots, holes, gaps, studs, etc.—has to be correctly sized and precisely located. There was a time when testing and measuring of those features could be done manually, but to keep up with today’s robotic assembly lines, measurement too has had to be automated.(…)
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