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Among the members of the Swiss Machinery Alliance, Bruker Alicona stands alone as a company specializing in #optical3Dmetrology. To explain what the company does, you have to start with Sunny艳平 Zhang张, Head of Sales Asia for Bruker Alicona, and her early days in the industry — when tactile measurement was still the norm. Micro features are getting smaller and more complex. This is where tactile probes start to hit their limits — small holes can't be reached, deep features are inaccessible, and physical contact risks damaging delicate surfaces. Non-destructive measurement? Contact-based methods simply can't deliver. That's where #opticalmeasurement comes in. Using light instead of a probe, Bruker Alicona's #µCMMNEO captures millions of measurement points in minutes — delivering dimension, position, form, and roughness in a single run. 𝙉𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙣𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩, 𝙣𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚. At Bruker Alicona, R&D doesn't happen in a vacuum. Sunny艳平 Zhang张 used the #opticalcommunications industry as an example to illustrate how Bruker Alicona stays ahead of emerging measurement challenges through forward-looking technology development. "You produce the part, but you can't verify whether it meets specifications" — a true reflection of an industry feeling its way in the dark. #µCMMNEO, as the next-generation upgrade of Bruker Alicona's Optical Coordinate Measuring Machines, delivers significant improvements in both speed and accuracy, making it ideally suited to meet these demanding requirements. µCMM NEO's precise alignment with market challenges is no coincidence. Sunny艳平 Zhang张 shared that the product's R&D logic is remarkably straightforward: "We don't develop a product first and then look for applications. We first look at what applications the market needs, and then develop the product accordingly." After all that has been said about the advantages of optical measurement, does it have limitations? The short answer is YES. So what are the boundaries of optical measurement? And how does Bruker Alicona continue to push past them? Watch Episode 14 of SMA China's #MemberTalk now, you will find out: ⚙️ Dimension, position, form, and roughness in one measurement — what device can replace multiple traditional instruments? 💡When light can't reach deep holes — what device achieves a 1:10 depth-to-diameter ratio? 🔬"You produce the part, but you can't verify it" — the optical communications industry's measurement bottleneck finally has a solution. 🥼“We don't build products first and look for applications. We look at what the market needs first.” — Bruker Alicona’s reverse R&D logic. 📏Where are the limits of optical measurement? And how does Bruker Alicona keep pushing beyond them? #OpticalMeasurement #PrecisionManufacturing #µCMMNEO #NonContactMeasurement #Innovation

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