DEA - Serving Metrology Worldwide
 
 
Automotive
With the ever-shorter design-to-production runs, assorted automotive manufacturers and their suppliers have turned to industrial metrology solutions to find ways to decrease ramp up times, increase productivity, reduce part rejection and improve the quality of their products.

From inspecting multiple bodies-in-white in one setup with laser tracker systems, prototype part inspection or die build and tryout validation with white light scanner systems, checking fit-and-finish tolerances in a car's interior with articulated arms to entirely automated gantry and horizontal arm coordinate measurement machines (CMMs) installations and everything in-between, Hexagon Metrology's customer roster reads like a "Who's Who?" of the world's most successful car companies.



 
Italdesign Giugiaro - Torino
Cars and more. Designed by Italians. Measured by Hexagon Metrology.

Not only production cars and supercars that are now part of automobile history, but also boats, trains and objects of everyday use. After forty years of design the tireless and inexhaustible Giorgetto Giugiaro’s pencil is still one of the most famous and valued all over the world. Undoubtedly design is one of the things that have made Italy ...

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Del West Europe - Roche
Del West Europe Measures up to Formula 1 Standards

It is a paradox that Del West Europe SA, a world leader in supplying valve train components to virtually all Formula 1 engine manufacturers,
is located in Switzerland, a country that manufactures no cars. “It was a deliberate decision,” says Bruno Engelric, Del West Europe’s managing director, ”For one thing, Switzerland is centrally located ...

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Pilkington - Turin
Forms and Transparencies

Time was when car glazing were simple flat glass panes. Today, automotive glazing surface becomes wider to increase visibility to the outside and the amount of light of the car inside. Glazing style becomes richer and more complex to fit car shapes of all segments, becoming more and more flexuous and appealing, but above all it is now integrated ...

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Ford - Brazil
João Marcos Ramos: A Question of Style

Ford Brasil started operating as early as 1919 assembling cars and trucks. Since then, the investments of this US manufacturer in South America have multiplied and now Ford has numerous manufacturing facilities in Brazil. In Taubaté, they produce engines (the Zetec RoCam engine was produced for the first time here), transmission systems and ...

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ATR - Colonnella
Racing with Supercar & Co.

Luxury cars for the very rich. Race motorcycles - advanced technological machines that challenge the boundaries of physics. Hi-tech bicycles making the most of the extraordinary power of the human body. Each of these objects, made in small numbers are extreme performers, they are made with great precision in great detail and have components of ...

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