New VISIONx General Manager Nomination

VISIONx INC. is pleased to announce that Brandon Freitas Perreira, P.Eng., has been named General Manager of the company, effective January 27th, 2025.

Brandon joined VISIONx in 2016 in the role of Application Engineer and was promoted to Applications Manager in 2019. Since joining the company, Brandon has worked on a great many customer projects across a very wide range of industries including: medical, aerospace, semiconductor, turning, general machining, packaging, PCB, micro-machining, grinding, power generation & Industrial Gas & Turbines (IGT), Automotive, Coating, ultrasonic machining, fasteners, and many, many more… Through his Application Engineer work, Brandon has been exposed, over and over, to the company’s customers preoccupations: the customer’s reality, the customer’s perspective, the customer’s constraints, the customer’s requirements, etc… Brandon’s has a deep understanding of and sensibility for our customer’s point-of-view and perspective.

During his time with the company, Brandon has also developed a deep knowledge of VISIONx’s product line. It’s fair to say that Brandon has applied pretty much every tool of every system across our company’s broad product range to successfully solve the wide range of customer applications to which he has been exposed. Throughout the many projects on which he has worked, Brandon has shown an uncanny ability for adapting the capabilities of the company’s products to meet our customer’s wide-ranging requirements. Very simply: every project on which Brandon has worked has been a success and – in all cases – customers have been delighted.

Most recently, Brandon has focused on more advanced VisionGauge® applications, including: multi-axis VisionGauge® disk inspection & measurement systems (primarily for the IGT and aerospace industries), VisionGauge® 700 Series 5-axis systems (primarily for cooling hole inspection & measurement applications) as well as various projects involving customized, complex & more advanced solutions.

In his role as General Manager, Brandon will be responsible for all the company’s day-to-day operational activities, including:

  • Production (including: Machining, Assembly, Purchasing & Inventory, Quality Control, Etc.)
  • Service
  • Support

According to Patrick Beauchemin, founder and president of VISIONx, “Brandon’s nomination as General Manager is very forward-looking and part of a company reorganisation, to position the company for what lays ahead. Brandon’s nomination as General Manager will help support the company’s ongoing & continued growth. Like everyone at VISIONx, Brandon has – to a very high degree – a wonderful customer-centric attitude and I’m certain that – in collaboration with everyone else in the company – he’ll do a great job running the company’s operations to ensure that customer expectations are met, in every aspect and in all their dealings with our company.”

Announcement – May 11, 2022 – New Shop Capabilities

 

We’ve just received the latest addition to our shop: A Fanuc RoboDrill α-D21MiB5ADV, 10,000 RPM, CNC Vertical Machining Center with a Fanuc 31i-B5 CNC Control and a 4th axis Fanuc DDRT-500 Direct Drive Linear Rotary Table.

 

This machine also has a bunch of automation-ready options (e.g. Hennig Hinge Belt Conveyor, Auto Door, Tool Probe, Bed Flush, Fixture Flush, Spindle Air Blow, etc…). This will allow us to add a robot to this machining cell, for automatic loading & unloading.

 

We’re excited about all of the extra capabilities that this new machine will give us. We’ll use it to produce parts that go into our VisionGauge® inspection and measurement systems, to help support the increasing popularity of VisionGauge® systems.

 

Thanks very much to our terrific partners at Methods Machine Tools for their help making this happen!

 

  • Robodrill arriving at VISIONx

New VisionGauge® software training videos

 

We’re pleased to announce the new “Training Videos” section of our web site. It contains an extensive set of videos that present the features and tools available in the VisionGauge® OnLine Software. These tutorial videos go in depth through the steps that allow you to perform a great many operations in the software.

The videos are nicely organised in clear categories and sub-categories, to allow you to quickly and easily find the information you’re looking for.

These videos can be found under the “Support” menu of our web site and are available to our current software users and resellers. Complete the registration form with your company name and your account will be verified and activated, following which you can view this section of the site.

Training Videos section of the VISIONx website

Announcing the Super-Extended Travel Configuration 500 Series VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator

 

The new VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator 500 Series Super-Extended-Travel Configuration is designed to inspect large and heavy parts while still delivering performance, reliability, and high-accuracy measurements. These systems have up to 60” of travel and support loads of up to 300 lbs!

This innovative configuration is designed to provide optimal rigidity and eliminate any mechanical deflections. Everything is optimized to allow the system to produce very accurate measurements of long and heavy parts.

 

500 Series VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator - Super-Extended Travel Configuration

The Super-Extended Travel Configuration is powerful and widely-applicable. In particular, the Industrial Gas Turbine (IGT) / Power Generation industry greatly benefits from the use of this system for inspection of fir trees / root forms on buckets.

Super-Extended Travel 500 Series VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator inspecting fir tree / root forms on buckets
Fir Tree / Root Form Inspection with the Super-Extended Travel 500 Series VisionGauge® Digital Optical Comparator

Download the data sheet, visit the product page, and contact us for more information.

 

Introducing VisionGauge®’s Patented “Tooth Checker™” tool

We’re happy to introduce VisionGauge®’s patented “Tooth Checker™” tool, specially adapted to check parts with teeth. This innovative new tool automatically locates, to very high accuracy, the crests and / or roots of the teeth and determines if they are within their tolerance band. It can also determine all other part characteristics, such as tooth pitch, thread depth, major & minor diameters, etc…

Bone screw teeth verification with the VisionGauge® “Tooth Checker™” tool
Bone screw teeth verification with the VisionGauge® “Tooth Checker™” tool

The Tooth Checker tool can verify that either crests, roots, or both, are in tolerance, using these crest & root points that the Tooth Checker tool has found, it can then automatically determine all other part characteristics:

VisionGauge Tooth Checker Nomenclature
Automatically check all part characteristics

This powerful new tool is perfect for quickly and accurately checking:

  • bone screws,
  • medical rasps,
  • gears,
  • fluted instruments,
  • threads & fittings,
  • and much more!

 

Click to view more information about the VisionGauge® Tooth Checker™, or download the application note.

Announcing the VisionGauge® Disk Inspection and Measurement System

 

The VisionGauge® Disk Inspection & Measurement System is the the ideal solution for automated, high-accuracy inspection & measurement of slots in turbine disks, both large & small. The system’s patented CAD Auto-Align™ & CAD Auto-Pass/Fail™ tools allow you to automatically check the slot profile, get deviations from nominal, etc…

 

VisionGauge Disk Inspection and Measurement System

 

Download the data sheet and contact us for more information.