Wixom, Michigan, January 8, 2008 - ROMER Inc., a Hexagon Metrology company, today announced the release of DOCS 2.3, a new upgrade of its state-of-the-art tube inspection software. Designed to revolutionize quality control in the tubing industry, DOCS (Data Overlay Camera System) 2.3 has numerous features not found in other software. Used with a ROMER portable CMM, DOCS can inspect and measure round metallic and non-metallic wire, tubing, and piping used in almost any industry - automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, medical, machinery, appliance, and more. DOCS can also produce corrected bend data for CNC tube benders.

Among the new features of DOCS 2.3 is Auto Single Measure Mode, which further automates the already easy tube inspection process by significantly minimizing operator input requirements. Also, support for multiple languages is now included: English, Chinese (simplified), Czech, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Turkish.

“We continue to develop DOCS as the premier tube inspection and bending solution,” said Doug Schueneman, Product Manager of Software Integration for ROMER, Inc. “The new features in this release makes an already easy process even easier and faster – providing crucial tube inspection data in a matter of seconds.”

Seamless Integration of Contact/Non-Contact Probes, and DOCS Patented Transprojection™

A ROMER portable arm CMM with DOCS software, plus a non-contact tube probe (sizes range from 6 mm to 150 mm), allows precise measurement of items as fine as wire up to tubes that are six inches in diameter. Seamless integration with contact (touch or touch trigger) probes is also standard, which enables operators to measure areas inaccessible by non-contact probes. Based on the length of the arm, touch probes can measure very large tubing and geometric features such as brackets, tabs, holes, and slots. DOCS supports ROMER’s powerful switch on-the-fly capability between contact and non-contact probes during a measurement routine.

When used with ROMER’s INFINITE portable CMM, the DOCS software patented Transprojection™ ability allows operators to overlay inspection results on a live view of the part from the INFINITE arm’s onboard digital camera for the ultimate in process documentation. This data can easily be included in the DOCS inspection report or used to make operator instructions. 

DOCS Helps to Eliminate Waste in Tube Bending

As tube inspection goes hand in hand with bending, DOCS can send corrected bend data directly to the CNC bender. This process eliminates costly transcription errors, and enables correction of bend data based on inspection results of the first tube bent. The second tube is usually in spec and ready to ship without wasting hours adjusting the bender trying to make a good tube. The elimination of waste and scrap, as well as increased shop productivity, is a key benefit of a ROMER arm system with DOCS. A connection to one CNC tube bender machine is now included FREE with DOCS 2.3 (additional connections may be purchased at additional charge).

About ROMER

ROMER Inc. designs and manufactures portable coordinate measurement machines for industrial measurement applications in the automotive, aerospace and general manufacturing applications.  The company's products are sold worldwide under the ROMER and CimCore brand names.  More information is at www.ROMER.com. 

About Hexagon Metrology

Hexagon Metrology serves the high precision measurement and inspection needs of worldwide manufacturers with its extensive line of metrology hardware, software, accessories, and customer services. The company's name-brand portfolio of quality assurance products include Brown & Sharpe, CogniTens, Leica Geosystems, ROMER, Sheffield, PC-DMIS, DEA, Leitz, and TESA. Hexagon Metrology has an unrivaled installed base of more than 1.5 million handheld, stationary and portable measurement devices, and over 30,000 seats of PC-DMIS metrology software. More information is at www.HexagonMetrology.us

The company is a subsidiary of Hexagon Measurement Technologies, a business unit of Hexagon AB (Nacka Strand, Sweden), a publicly-traded company (OMX Nordic: HEXA B). The Hexagon group consists of  nearly 8,200 employees located in 30 countries.

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