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Joel Martin

Joel Martin is a product manager for Leica Geosystems Metrology Division (Unterentfelden, Switzerland). For more information, e-mail [email protected], call +41 62 737 67 88 or visit www.leica-geosystems.com.
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laser trackers

Laser Trackers Take a Bold Step into Scanning

Large scale metrology grade scanning debuts this year.
Joel Martin
June 1, 2019

The time is the late 1960s. Detroit muscle cars roam the streets. Woodstock is just around the corner. Passenger air travel is growing at an unprecedented rate. 


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Laser trackers

The New Science of Laser Trackers

Today’s enabling technology for “precision anything.”
Joel Martin
September 15, 2018

The manufacturing industry continues to push the conventional boundaries of creating larger and more complex parts. The potential for costly errors also increases exponentially when producing large-scale, intricate components and assemblies. 


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Leica T-Mac (Tracker-Machine control sensor)

The Real-Time Promise of 7DoF Laser Tracking

A gateway to a new era of automation and factory of the future.
Joel Martin
March 1, 2017

There are major technology disruptions afoot in the world of conventional portable metrology. For the better part a decade, 6DoF laser tracking has been the standard go-to technology for metrologists in the large-scale manufacturing sectors. 


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MeasureA_FT

Tracking Progress: Re-evaluating Laser Tracker Technology

Handheld probes and scanners drastically expand possible applications
Joel Martin
January 1, 2015

Laser trackers have long been the portable metrology tool of choice for companies serving the aerospace, automotive and other large-scale manufacturing sectors.


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Test & Inspection

Metrology Automation is Here and Now

Robots and laser trackers are changing the landscape in manufacturing.
Joel Martin
April 1, 2014

Industrial robots have become part of our everyday life.


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Quality 101: Laser Tracking Fundamentals

Joel Martin
May 14, 2007
Laser tracking systems entered the manufacturing marketplace in 1991. At the time, pundits speculated the new mobile measurement system was just a passing fad, unstable and expensive. More than 15 years later, laser tracking has withstood the test of time with several thousand installations worldwide. The technology has established itself as a standard-issue metrology tool for in-place inspection of large parts and assemblies in both the automotive and aerospace industries. Major inroads are being made in other precision industry applications that require accuracies of a couple thousands of an inch.
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