The semiconductor industry is constantly marching toward thinner films and complex geometries with smaller dimensions, as well as newer materials. The number of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) ...

Chipmakers are ramping up a new class of chip architectures, such as 3D NAND and finFETs. Measuring and characterizing the tiny structures in these technologies is a major challenge. It will not only ...

The Engineer caught up with three leading metrology experts to find out about the latest trends and developments in the field Metrology is an often-overlooked part of industrial production, but it ...

A new £25m centre of excellence in metrology will save British industry millions of pounds and hours in new “smart factories”, an audience of industry experts has been told in Huddersfield. L-R: Prof ...

Much of subcontractor Driven Engineering's turnover comes from the Formula 1 circuit, although the cost cap imposed on teams over recent years has somewhat reduced that volume. This has led the ...

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz.-- From military vehicles to tank and artillery cartridges, Metrology Branch Chief Savanna Silva has worked on many of ground combat’s largest projects in her more than 10 ...

Rigaku Corporation, a global solution partner in X-ray analytical systems and a group company of Rigaku Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; CEO: Jun Kawakami; “Rigaku”), has opened ...

Van Horn, whose resume includes engineering efforts on the Madison Square Garden Sphere in Las Vegas, discusses how combining MBSE with laser metrology improves accuracy from design to installation.

A FULL-TIME postgraduate course in engineering metrology (technical measurement), extending over one apetaemic year, is being started this year as a permanent feature in the courses provided at the ...

Coordinate metrology is used by designers, engineers, and manufacturers to accurately gauge the characteristics of mechanical components. Coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) can make comparisons of ...

A peer-reviewed study published in npj Heritage Science has applied whole-object metrology to ancient Egyptian stone vessels and found concentricity and surface tolerances that align more closely with ...