CMM Laser Tracker

 

Quality of Manufactured products are dropping due to poor site installation and worn components. Faro Tracker is DCL’s solution to helping solve and prevent deteriorating manufactured products in these areas with using our Vantage S6 Laser Tracker to provide a large-scale, six-degrees-of-freedom capability for both probing, scanning & surveying with the highest degree of accuracy.

Laser Tracker

Laser trackers are instruments that accurately measure large objects by determining the positions of optical targets held against those objects. The accuracy of laser trackers is of the order of 0.025 mm over a distance of 80 + / – metres. Some examples of laser tracker applications are to align aircraft wings during assembly and to align large machine tools. To take measurements the technician first sets up a laser tracker on a tripod with an unobstructed view  (must always have a line of sight for the laser beam) of the object to be measured. The technician removes a target from the base of the laser tracker and carries it to the object to be measured, moving smoothly to allow the laser tracker to follow the movement of the target. The technician places the target against the object and triggers measurements to be taken at selected points, sometimes by a remote control device. Measurements can be imported into different types of software to plot the points or to calculate deviation from the correct position.