TPT November 2008

I ndustry N ews

Faro and TeZet combine tube measurement expertise Faro, Germany, has entered into a new European technology and marketing agreement with TeZet, a Swiss-based tube measurement software specialist. According to the agreement, TeZet’s specialised tube software solution TeZetCAD, will be integrated into the leading portable devices for 3D measurement – Faro ScanArm and FaroArm. This new joint solution will be available to customers in all major industries for the measurement and correction of tubes of all sizes and forms, including complex geometries of freeform bent tubes. At present, TeZet claims to be the only software globally that can measure and correct freeform bent tubes. “The agreement with TeZet is very important to us because it allows us to expand our reach into the emerging tube measurement market,” said Mr David Homewood, Faro’s area vice president of sales for the UK, France and Distribution. The agreement enables the measurement of freeform bent tubes with the Faro Laser ScanArm so that tube benders can actually bend tubes by extracting them graphically from CAD drawings. Until now, the only method that allowed measurement of the reproducibility and quality control for freeform bent tubes was traditional laser scanning. Users needed to collect points and convert the point cloud into polygons or nurbs to generate a tube design on the screen without having any tube data, which is a cumbersome and time consuming process. TeZet offers a software module for Faro ScanArms that allows automatic calculation of tube data during the scanning procedure. The user no longer needs to use the complex and lengthy method of converting millions of points in order to extract the tube coordinate and bending data necessary for masterpiece inspection and comparison within the production procedure. TeZet Technik AG – Switzerland Fax : +41 56 2492878 Email : tezet_leistritz@compuserve.com Website : www.tezet.com Faro Europe GmbH & Co KG – Germany Fax : +49 7150 979744 Email : melanie.prengel@faroeurope.com Website : www.faro.com

DIARY OF TUBE EVENTS

2008

NOVEMBER 11-14 Metal Expo 2008 Moscow, Russia Exhibition

Email : info@metal-expo.ru Website : www.metal-expo.ru

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18-21 Tube & Pipe Central Asia Almaty, Kazakhstan Exhibition 13-16 Tube + Pipe Expo 2008 New Delhi, India Exhibition

Fax : +44 20 8387 3201 Website : www.tubeandpipe-expo.com

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Email : info@expocentralasia.com Website : www.expocentralasia.com

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2009

JANUARY 10-13 Tekno/Tube Arabia

Email : alfajer@emirates.net.ae Website : www.tekno7.info

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates Exhibition

MARCH

05-08 BORU 2009

Email : info@ihlasfuar.com Website : www.ihlasfuar.com

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Istanbul, Turkey Exhibition

10-13 TECMA

Email : info@tecma.org.mx Website : www.tecma.org.mx

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Mexico City, Mexico Exhibition

MAY

12-15 Tube/wire Russia 2009 Moscow, Russia Exhibition

Email : wolfgramc@messe-duesseldorf.de Website : www.metallurgy-tube-russia.com

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JUNE

17-19 Tubes + Fittings Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine Exhibition

Email : olga@welding.kiev.ua Website : www.weldexpo.com.ua

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OCTOBER

06-08 Tubotech/Metaltech 2009 São Paulo, Brazil Exhibition 13-15 Tube/wire Southeast Asia Bangkok, Thailand Exhibition 02-03 Pipe & Tube Istanbul 09 Istanbul, Turkey ITA conference 15-18 Fabtech/AWS Welding Show Chicago, USA Exhibition NOVEMBER

Email : cipa@cipanet.com.br Website : www.cipanet.com.br

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Email : tube@mda.org Website : www.tube-southeastasia.com

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Email : info@itatube.org Website : www.itatube.org

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Email : information@fmafabtech.com Website : www.fmafabtech.com

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2010

JANUARY 10-12 Tube India

Email : schreiberg@messe-duesseldorf.de Website :www.tube-india.com

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New Delhi, India Exhibition

APRIL

12-16 Tube/wire Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, Germany Exhibition

Email : liedtkeM@messe-duesseldorf.de Website : www.tube.de

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