KEYENCE's Instant Measurement System Makes Dimensional Checks Much Faster LISI MEDICAL’s plant in Miribel, a French town just outside the city of Lyon, specialises in the outsourcing of surgical implants and ancillary items. Consisting primarily of plates and screws, these parts require precision manufacturing and are inspected by the plant’s metrology department. The typical tolerances are in the order of 0.1 to 0.05 mm.“We measure around thirty points on each part. We perform these measurements either on entire production runs or randomly selected parts. Inspecting a part with a conventional system consisting of a prole projector, micrometres and callipers takes around 20 minutes on average. With the IM measurement system, these inspections take only four to ve minutes,” explains Franç

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