Poorly aligned equipment is a hidden drain on valuable resources and a major contributor to costly breakdowns, lost production and product waste.The industrial world uses optical instruments to guide the installation and maintenance of precision machinery. Optical instrumentation is used in cutting everything from a 2 x 4 piece of lumber to a diamond to highly specialized satellite imagery.
Optical tools are being used in almost every segment of the industrial world today. Optical tools are being used for manufacturing, measuring and monitoring renewable energy generation such as solar cells from fabrication, characterization and long-term monitoring tools. Optics used in other renewable energy process such as wind, hydro, geothermal, thermophotovoltaics, and optics for solar concentrators.
Not only in the field of renewable energy, but optical tools are also used in the oil and gas industry, including optical sensors for flow-line monitoring of pipelines and distribution of networks; optics for the mining industry, and for monitoring underwater structures and marine biology, just to name a few.
To point, more and more manufacturing at all levels is turning to precision optics to ensure accuracy at every level. When choosing a lens for your precise equipment, it’s important to choose a company that works with your product from beginning to end. At Universe Optics, we not only design your lens, we also manufacture all of our precision lenses.
When it comes to product waste, consider simply the lumber industry. When cutting timber, a precise measurement is as important to the manufacturer as it is to the builder, along with the everyday consumer. While a small, in-precise cut may not seem like much on one board, compiled over thousands of cuts, that adds up to not only dollars lost in productivity, but, also undermines the financial gains of the mill. Not only can it cost time in the field, but, it can also lead to a poorly manufactured structure. Optical precision cuts down on these losses.
Using optical tools in the oil and gas industry leads to more productivity and can also help to ensure the safety of the workers in the field. Using optics that communicates with computers can keep workers out of the fields in areas where the winters can be harsh.
As we look towards more renewable energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and thermophotovoltaics (TPV), it will continue to become more and more important that the accuracy of the lenses used in the monitoring instrumentation is precise. The accuracy of such equipment will cut down on the amount of ‘down-time’ spent investigating where the losses are coming from, thereby making the profitability of equipment and investment go up. Being able to gain further resources of renewable energy helps the economy on a whole. Being on the cutting edge, with the exact instrumentation, can become a leading industry standard.
Universe Kogaku designs and manufactures optical lenses for optical alignment, security, high tech and electronic applications. We stock 1000’s of standard lens assemblies and can custom design a solution for scanners, CCTV, CCD/CMOS, medical imaging, surveillance systems, machine vision and night vision systems.