September 3, 2008 - Brown & Sharpe TESA announced the TESAVISIO 200 Vision non-contact video measuring machine, a high precision, scalable system that can be reconfigured at any time. TESAVISIO 200's measurement range is 200 x 100 x 150 mm. The manual system is ideal for smaller parts, shop floor measurement, and inspection applications in medical, stamping, aerospace, plastics and more.

The TESAVISIO 200 package includes a high resolution Color CCD camera (752 x 582 pixels) with manual focus and course or fine adjustment features. Linear encoders with 0.05 ìm resolution are mounted an each axis. The system has a variety of fixed lens options, as well as a manual zoom index that can be set to different zoom positions. The configuration also includes a computer and 19" monitor to view high resolution images captured by the vision system.

The TESAVISIO 200 comes standard with TESA-VISTA measurement software providing an easy-to-use interface designed for basic shop floor applications. The product is also offered with optional PC-DMIS Pro or PC-DMIS CAD software, both advanced solutions for measurement applications in two and three dimensions. The software offers both on-line and off-line programming, automatic edge detection, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and more. PC-DMIS also provides on-screen viewing of measured values including those related to the position of geometric elements and edge capture. Users can choose from a variety of CAD import options and several formats for inspection reports that can be custom-made to their specific needs. Pricing starts at $14,000 with the TESA-VISTA software.

Other features include a solid granite base and column, pre-stressed carriages mounted on ultra-precise monorails, and linear encoders mounted on each axis. A handy red laser pointer helps to locate features to be checked. The TESAVISIO 200 has long lasting LED light sources, and its transmitted light is produced by a green LED with programmable light intensity.

About Brown & Sharpe TESA

Brown & Sharpe TESA is a leading Swiss manufacturer of vision measuring systems, manual coordinate measuring machines, non-contact measuring systems, height gages, and hand-held precision measuring instruments. For more than 60 years, TESA has combined high technology, research and development, practical engineering, and ultra-modern manufacturing processes to design measuring instruments that offer high accuracy, dependability and durability in the most demanding operations.

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.

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.