A ‘nimble’ large-scale portable laser scanner will be among a raft of measurement solutions launched by Telford-based Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence at the show (Hall 18, Stand 430).

The Leica Absolute Scanner LAS-XL not only offers scan-line widths up to 600mm and measurement stand-off distances up to 1m but also accuracy to within 150µm.

Hexagon (www.hexagonmi.com) says the scanner’s expanded measurement field and point acquisition rate mean that components and assemblies such as large blade surfaces or aircraft and rail carriage interiors can be digitised faster than ever before.

Speed is also the hallmark of Hexagon’s Romer Absolute all-purpose, portable measuring arm, which will be demonstrating its rapid 3-D data-capture capability via a new integrated RS4 scanner.

Thanks to an ultra-wide laser strip (up to 150mm), the RS4 scanner can acquire 752,000 points per sec, reducing the number of passes required to fully scan a part.

Hexagon will also be demonstrating its new automatic Senmation sensor-exchange system on a Leitz PMM-Xi co-ordinate measuring machine.