GeoNews - August 2007

Edition 2007.7

GeoConnect!

Checkmaster SMMAs businesses reach around the world, keeping in touch and providing timely support often struggles. With customers at 3, 6, 8 or 12 hours different from your own, providing support becomes a real challenge.

We have developed many tools to reduce that distance and time. These tools include an in-depth support web site, www.iGeomet.com to the real time Internet based GeoConnect system. Using the GeoConnect system provides a direct connection between the customer and service representative where we can take control of your system to provide better troubleshooting and upgrade support.

Our support representative can see, navigate and respond to prompts from our Niagara Falls office directly on your system. During a support call, we may suggest a GeoConnect session. The connection process involves a simple email that provides a "session" number which you then enter in the Support Session web page. Answer a few questions and accept a small program download, and the connection is complete.

Of course this value added support can only happen if your Geomet system is connected to the Internet. If it is not, consider adding Internet support. Your benefits from system upgrades to interactive help extend the power of Geomet!


 Announcements
The Geomet web site added a new address!

To simplify accessing the Geomet web site, we have added a simpler, shorter web site address:

www.iGeomet.com

Mark your calendar!  

Quality Expo 2007 has moved from its late spring time slot to September 25-27.

Visit our  Events Page and click on the Quality Expo logo to register and receive up to $55 off your entrance fee.



General News

September 25-27 - Quality Expo, Rosemont, IL

Helmel will be exhibiting at the Quality Expo in Rosemont (Chicago) IL, September 25-27, 2007. Held every two years in Chicago, this is the largest exhibition in North America of inspection and measurement instruments, devices, and software used in the quality and reverse engineering fields. For the first time the Quality Expo will be held in conjunction with four other shows: Assembly Technology, Electronics Assembly, National Manufacturing Week, and Plastec. This insures that there will be many hundreds of exhibitors (300 in Quality alone), and tens of thousands of visitors to these shows.

Helmel will be demonstrating several of our CMM systems at the show, including the new Microgage, the Checkmaster, both sizes of the Phoenix, and a Microstar with UCC2 control and the SP25 continuous scanning probe system. These are hands-on demos, so we hope to see you there - and bring parts to play with!

For more information and costs, please contact our Sales Department at sales@helmel.com.

Art Whistler - Vice President Sales - email: Art@helmel.com


Keep your CMM Software Current  

CMM Software is changing daily. New features and updates are constantly being published. Keep your software current with the latest changes by visiting our Geomet web site download page at: http://www.geomet-cmm-software.com/download.htm.

For those customers that maintain a Software Service Contract (SSC), they receive an automatic upgrade every six month, June and December. Minor changes are posted on the web site and can be downloaded and installed on demand. That is a benefit of maintaining your SSC. To obtain additional information on SSC programs, please contact our sales department at (716) 297-8644 or request information here
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Geomet Tip & Tricks
Expanded Constructions 

Engineers extend the measuring requirements beyond the basic prismatic feature inspections. Often the results can only be found through a combination of constructions and creative setup work with your CMM software. Geomet is designed to take on these construction needs with intuitive and supportive tools.

Not all possible constructions are handled and the Geomet programming staff relies on the operator doing the construction to submit a request for a new feature combination that delivers the inspection solutions you are after. Please visit some of our more expanded construction tools below.

Cone Drop Ball Test  Cone Distance Offset 
Cone Diameter at Height  Sphere Diameter Offset Tool
Extended Distance Measurements   
   

This list is just a sample of our extended construction capabilities. To fully realize all of Geomet's potential, navigate the Geomet web site and browse the construction tools pages found attach to any feature.


Need Help or Suggestions?  

To help you to learn about the power of Geomet, we are launching a series of tutorials and programming examples. Do you need a specific example? Please submit to us a request to include a tutorial or programming example in future GeoNews editions.


Helmel Engineering Products Inc.
6520 Lockport Road
Niagara Falls, NY 14305

Phone: (716) 297-8644
Fax: (716) 297-9405



© 2007 Helmel Engineering Products, Inc.
Helmel West
2324 North Batavia Street
Orange, CA 92865

Phone: (714) 637-9378
Fax: (714) 637-5266
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