Brand new video on the AR100 Super Compact Laser Triangulation Sensor June 18, 2021 – Posted in: Updates

We put together a new overview video on our AR100, one of the smallest triangulation lasers in the world. Its body measures just 45 by 30 by 17 mm. It fits literally in the palm of your hand. Even with such small dimensions, the AR100 is available with measurement ranges up to a half meter all while maintaining a 0.05% linearity for ranges 250 mm and under and 0.1% linearity for the 500 mm range.…

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Acuity Laser Seeks Lead Sales Engineer April 14, 2021 – Posted in: Updates

UPDATE MAY 12, 2021:This position has been filled. Thanks to everyone who applied! Summary: The Lead Sales Engineer is responsible for managing the internal sales pipeline and the Independent Representative network with technical sales activities in net-new and pre-existing opportunities. Duties and Responsibilities: Grow product sales in existing and new markets. Deliver the technical value of Acuity’s products and services to the end-user. Build a strong business justification to the end-user, while meeting/exceeding sales growth targets. Understand customer requirements…

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Acuity Laser Announces New AR550 High Speed Laser Sensor April 6, 2021 – Posted in: Updates

Acuity Laser is pleased to announce the release of a new product, the AR550 High Speed Laser Sensor. Coming from the company’s short range sensor product group, the Acuity Laser AR550 is an off-shoot of their popular AR500. “We were already offering the AR550 to our established customers, but had yet to publicly formalize the product,” said Nick Catalano, Acuity’s General Manager. “Now we can point directly to what the AR550 has to offer.” The…

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Scanning the Edge Thickness of a Circuit Board March 2, 2021 – Posted in: Thickness Measurement

In this application, we're going to be using the Acuity AP820-5 laser line sensor for scanning edge thickness of a circuit board. The AP820 laser profiler has a five millimeter depth of field in the Z direction, and a four millimeter wide laser line sensor. With this model, we should have a linearity of about plus or minus 3.5 microns of accuracy, which equates to about a pixel roughly every seven microns. In our demo… Continue reading