API Launches New Business

API Services, a wholly owned division of Automated Precision, Inc. (API; Rockville, MD), has launched a recertified laser tracker operation. The company’s chief executive officer, Kam Lau, invented the laser tracker. The Radian Laser Tracker series offers one of the smallest, lightest, and most accurate trackers available.

The recertifed laser tracker allows first-time tracker users to receive the benefits of laser tracker measurements at a significant discount on new tracker pricing or allows for additional tracker capacity to be added by experienced laser tracker users. Recent market surveys estimate that the use of laser trackers by the manufacturing industry will increase by 13 percent per annum (CAGR) over the next 5 years.

All recertified trackers have been through a rigorous factory inspection process and recertified to the B89.4.19 standard at the API Services IS0 17015 certified facility. Each tracker comes standard with a 12 months full parts and labor warranty. Warranty extensions and comprehensive service contracts, which include annual tracker recalibration, can be purchased extending coverage to two, three, or five years.

The trackers can be supplied with one of the popular metrology software’s such as Verisurf®, Polyworks® and Spatial Analyzer® or customers can utilize an existing software license. They are supplied with an initial measurement SMR (spherically mounted retro-reflector). Additional tracker accessories are available to customize the laser tracker to customer specific measurement applications.

The use of portable inspection equipment is rapidly increasing as more manufacturers take part measurement to the manufacturing floor. Laser trackers offer the ability to perform CMM-style measurements quickly and accurately without the part logistics associated with transporting parts to a centralized quality laboratory.

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