Gaging.com - Measure Smarter visited the BIOMEDevice Boston trade show yesterday and saw some of the latest technologies for the Biomedical Industry. 

The Trimos booth was featuring the TR-Scan, a high-end laser surface finish analyzer that can measure a large variety of surfaces to the nanometer range.

Mitutoyo featured a new stand for the Surftest SJ-410 profilometer that will make repetitive measurements a breeze.  They call it the Autoset Unit.  Basically the stand can be programed with high precision to move back to a specific starting location. That function is a huge time saver for high volume, consecutive measurements.  Contact us for details.

Fowler had some new Sylvac products and configurations.

A Trimos THV connected to a Sylvac D300S display with the new Heidenhain interface.

The New Sylvac D70S display!

Another major focus of the show was 3D printing.  The results that this process can yield are truly remarkable and will only continue to get better. That is the most definitely the direction the manufacturing industry is going in. The thing is, no matter how advanced manufacturing technology gets, the final product will need to be checked for quality. 

That is good job security for Metrologists like us...for now at least!