Mahr cooperative agreement with NanoFocus adds optical metrology capability

April 19, 2018

Mahr will soon offer confocal measuring microscopes from NanoFocus as the new product family "MarSurf CM".

Measurement technology company Mahr (http://buyersguide.laserfocusworld.com/mahr.html) (Providence, RI) and 3D surface metrology company NanoFocus (Oberhausen, Germany) have signed a cooperation agreement. As of May, Mahr will be offering confocal microscopes from NanoFocus as the new Mahr product family "MarSurf CM". The new devices will be presented at Control in Stuttgart at the end of April. The companies say that production metrology company Mahr expands and completes its own tactile portfolio with optical metrology.

Optical measuring technology is becoming increasingly important for many applications due to its high measuring speed and high measuring accuracy. Mahr is now expanding its product portfolio of tactile and optical measuring stations with high-resolution, confocal 3D surface measuring systems and has concluded an exclusive cooperation agreement with NanoFocus. NanoFocus was founded in 1994 and has since focused on confocal technology. "NanoFocus has been the technology leader in confocal, optical 3D surface metrology for more than twenty years and has a high level of innovation," says Ulrich Kaspar, managing director at Mahr. "That's why NanoFocus is the right partner for us."

Mahr traditionally offers tactile measuring stations and a comprehensive product portfolio of optical measurement technology from a single source and confirms its claim as an application specialist. "Both measuring methods have their strengths and are thus an ideal addition for Mahr," says Kaspar.

The confocal 3D surface measuring systems of the new MarSurf CM product range are used, for example, in medical technology, the automotive industry, materials management, or by manufacturers of electrical engineering. The optical measuring systems have several advantages: In addition to the high measuring speed, they work independently of the material and without contact, for example for sensitive surfaces.

SOURCE: Mahr; https://www.mahr.com/en-us/Company/Press/International-(EN)/Press-releases-2018/?ContentID=208047&Overview=0

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Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.