While Autonetics specializes in building gauges for turned or threaded industrial parts, we are always excited to explore other, less common, aspects of metrology.

Celgard, a world-wide leader in development, manufacturing, and distribution of high-performance membrane separators, approached Autonetics with a very unique problem: during the manufacture of their membrane separator a slight camber would often be introduced. An unwanted defect.

Traditionally, such a camber would be measured by hand using a string and ruler. While this method served its purpose for a time, modern quality control best practices necessitate a more accurate and repeatable solution.

The Autonetics Solution

As with all applications for which we are approached, we began our process of brainstorming and researching potential solutions – thinking outside of the box to present not just a solution, but a cost-effective solution.

After numerous meetings with our vendors, trials, and tests we eventually landed on a solution incorporating an optical sensor from Balluf.