CONTENT

COVERSTORY
Near to REM ... and More
Surface Analysis with Materials Microscopy

EDITORIAL
Gabriele Jansen

TOPICS

News

Performance of Inspection Systems
Factors Influencing Automated Defect Identification
Dr. Ralph Neubecker

Stuttgart Springtime
Control 2009

Put in Perspective
Optical Metrology Basics: Telecentric Lenses
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heckenkamp

Visionaries
Interview with Dr. Rainer Ohnheiser, CEO, Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH

VISION

Millions of Mirrors
Technology and Applications of Digital Light Processing
Alfred Jacobsen

Pixel Highway
Move Large Volumes of Data
Ronny Walther

Green Mobility
Quality Control of Cylinder Wall Surfaces for Engine Optimization
Andreas Hermann

AUTOMATION

Precision out of Gold City
Methods for High-precision Optical Measurement
Dr. Helge Moritz

Wrap Up
Precise 3D Stereo Measurement at 900°

Perfect Interaction
3D Robot Guidance, In-line Measurement and Data Analysis Secure Quality in Body-in-White Production
Robert Werny

Outsourcing
Contract Measurements with Image Processing
Dipl.-Ing. Joachim Kimmerle

CONTROL

Heat Flux Thermography
From Laboratory System to Industrial Application
Dr. Christoph Döttinger

Automatic Focus Adjustment
Piezo Drives for Microscopy
Dipl.-Phys. Steffen Arnold, Ellen-Christine Reiff, M.A.

New Possibilities
Laser Tracker Simplifies the Inspection of Large Castings
Andreas Petrosino

For Highest Surface Grade
All-round Quality Assurance of Drill and Milling Tools
Mag. Astrid Krenn

Perfect Surfaces
Automated Objective Surface Inspection Station with High Flexibility at Daimler AG
Dipl.-Phys., MBM Hubert Lechner

High-precision and Non-contact
Circularity and Radial Run-out Measurement with Multi Sensor Monitoring
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schmitt, M. Sc. Guilherme Mallmann