Quality Control Solutions

Product catalog summary

Quality Control Overview
SMAC Inc. provides advanced quality control solutions for various applications, including force displacement measurement and thread screw checks. Their systems are designed to improve inspection accuracy and efficiency in challenging environments where traditional methods may fail.

Applications

Force Displacement Measurement: Used for assessing spring rates in diesel injectors, automotive and industrial switches, and door latch assemblies.
Thread Screw Check: Applicable to casting parts, oil pans, fuel valves, and wheel bearings.
Measuring and Gauging: Includes bore gauging, groove inspection, and gauging of internal and external diameters, height, thickness, and multiple points with resolutions ranging from 5µ to 5 nm.

Moving Coil Actuators
SMAC's automated contact measurement system offers a unique solution for inspection challenges, providing 100% inspection, increased quality, SPC data acquisition, process control feedback, and increased throughput.

Comparison with Conventional Solutions

Camera: Issues with optical distortions, lighting consistency, vibrations, and dirty environments.
Laser: Reflective inaccuracies and problems with textured or colored surfaces.
LVDT: Inaccuracies due to pneumatic variables, non-programmability, non-linear data, short strokes, poor resolution, and force control.
Eddy Current: Requires accessible material surfaces, may have bad readings due to material finish, limited penetration depth, and expensive probe tips.

Advantages of SMAC Solutions
SMAC's systems can be correlated with manual gauge methods and offer a free proof of concept at their in-house lab. Customers are encouraged to send parts for testing and can contact SMAC for more details.

Quality Control Solutions

Quality Control Solutions

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