Case Study: Thales Angenieux reduces lens inspection time with Hexagon Adams

Adams View helps to optimize time to inspect sub-assemblies for zoom lenses

Thales Angenieux, a manufacturer of high-end zoom lenses for cinema and television, faced a significant challenge in its assembly process. A critical adjustment involving a micron-level gap in a lens sub-assembly required inspectors to manually find a worst-case position through trial and error, a task that demanded a highly experienced operator and was extremely time-consuming. The vendor, Hexagon, provided a solution using its Adams simulation software.

By creating a model of the lens in Adams, Hexagon's software was able to accurately predict the worst-case position for the adjustment. This allowed Thales Angenieux inspectors to go directly to this position to make measurements, drastically reducing the inspection time per lens. The solution from Hexagon also meant that less experienced operators could now perform the inspection successfully, increasing operational efficiency.

Thales Angenieux

Sliman Ayad

Mechanical Design Engineer