Digital Mobile Metrology Device Captures 2D, 3D Surface Maps in Milliseconds

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GelSight, a developer of tactile intelligence technology, is expanding its digital mobile metrology device portfolio with the GelSight Max. The product enables users to capture high-resolution 2D images and 3D digital surface maps in milliseconds. These surface maps enable analysis functions such as submicron profile and surface roughness, as well as measurement of surface features, such as scratches and pitting, down to the submicron level, regardless of the material being measured. 

With the GelSight Max, the company continues to develop portable mobile metrology and tactile sensing devices that digitize previously manual, qualitative measurements and inspection processes that require the use of expensive, static and complex lab equipment. GelSight says that GelSight Max maintains the speed and usability customers expect of its products, designed to precisely measure features under 50 microns and roughness values under an Ra of 2.0 microns.

In addition, the company says GelSight Max is capable of repeatable measurements of roughness values down to an Ra of 0.2 micron and surface features of 1.0 micron. GelSight Max’s 2D and 3D imaging and measurement analysis provide traceable accuracy to 0.3 micron/0.01 thou. This level of accuracy can promote improvements for mobile inspection processes in aerospace, automotive, energy, forensics, additive manufacturing, films and coatings, and more.

“Surface roughness analysis is a crucial, yet complex part of many R&D and production quality control inspection processes,” says Dennis Lang, chief business officer at GelSight. “GelSight Max is simplifying surface roughness analysis by allowing users to perform measurements in-situ, on any type of surface, with a level of repeatability and speed that other handheld devices on the market cannot provide. Our customers tell us GelSight systems are intuitive for a new user to set up and begin capturing high-quality 3D surface data with the press of a button in as little as five minutes.”