Manufacturing Technology

New features on SBM-35L inspection system 23 November 2015

San Shing Fastech Corp has added new features to its SBM-35L First Article Inspection System, which was especially designed for fast inspection of bolt products during the manufacturing process – enabling quality control to be implemented on each manufacturing process.

The SBM-35L First Article Inspection System not only replaces the traditional measurement devices such as optical projectors, surface profiler, as well as hand measurement tools such as micrometer and internal gauges, it also integrates a database so that multiple measurement results can be stored for complete process capability analysis and failure tracking.

The SBM-35L manages to eliminate the erroneous measurement cause by negligence of operator, and new features further enhance the machine’s capabilities.
A long-awaited feature that is now available is geometric measurement, which had previously always been a concern for fastener manufacturers. Now SBM-35L is able to inspect roundness, straightness, perpendicularity, eccentricity, concentricity, and parallelism. San Shing points out that these geometric features, together with previous measurable items, elevate the machine capability to a higher level.
Another new characteristic is the application of front light illumination in manual measurement. San Shing explains that whilst backlight illumination is undoubtedly the first choice for measuring, there are still blind spots that can be found during inspection, even with a rotation function. Therefore, San Shing has incorporated a front light illumination to SBM-35L. With the fine-tuned accuracy of ± 0.01mm, this alternative lighting produces a silhouette to measure various diameters, radius, and angles, which cannot be profiled from the backlight illumination.

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