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This section provides an overview for alignment telescopes as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 5 alignment telescope manufacturers and their company rankings. Here are the top-ranked alignment telescope companies as of December, 2024: 1.Prisms India Private Limited, 2.Titan Tool Supply, Inc., 3.Warren-Knight Instrument Company.
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An alignment telescope represents a specialized type of telescope employed for aligning various equipment and optical instruments. Harnessing the principles of parallelism and coaxiality within optical axes, it facilitates the precise positioning and alignment correction of diverse devices and machinery. Apart from centering functions, it is adept at adjusting and measuring right angles, straightness, plumbness, flatness, and parallelism, among others, tailored to specific equipment requirements. Also referred to as a centering telescope or centering scope, this tool finds extensive application across industries where meticulous positioning is imperative.
The utilization of alignment telescopes ensures meticulous axis alignment for bearings and bores, pivotal in machinery setup and measurement endeavors. Its versatility extends across various sectors, encompassing manufacturing, machinery, automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, and optical instrumentation. Key applications comprise:
An alignment telescope primarily comprises the telescope body and a target for position correction.
The telescope body enables clear observation through the eyepiece, facilitating the visualization of distant objects with precision, courtesy of the focusing lens and objective lens. The target typically features concentric circles indicating the center and is positioned either beyond or in front of the alignment object. Simultaneous viewing of the alignment object and target through the telescope enables seamless positioning and correction.
Alignment telescopes boast high precision, capable of detecting alignment errors ranging from 0.02mm to 0.05mm at distances of up to 30 meters.
The telescope tube undergoes meticulous manufacturing to ensure errors in mechanical and optical axes remain within three to five seconds. Incorporating a pentaprism facilitates precise 90-degree deflection of the optical axis for measuring right angles, while a rotating pentaprism enables flatness measurement. Diverse accessories enable measurements of straightness, plumbness, parallelism, and verticality.
An array of alignment telescopes is available, including those offering supplementary features:
Products with cameras use CCTV cameras and PC with specialized software to enlarge the view. This improves operability for long-distance measurements, reduces subjective errors by operators, and decreases operator fatigue.
Digital alignment telescopes utilize high-resolution CCD technology and specialized software for digital output. They are equipped with CCD targets and systems and software that automatically detect the target center.
With the target displayed on the monitor, adjustments to the alignment object can be made, making it particularly effective for aligning large equipment (such as large machine tools or aircraft jigs). Superior measurement repeatability with CCD is also expected.
Additionally, there are compact telescopes suited for low-precision applications and infrared-specific products (with infrared-specific light sources, coatings, and cameras).
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Manufacturer of Precision Plano Optics and Optical Instruments. Caters to Space Depatments, Machine Tool Industry, Optics Instruments manufacturers, Research Organisations, Educational Institutions. Prisms India Optics Manufcaturing capability to achieve Lambda/20 on Flatness and 1 arc sec on angles.
Titan Tool Supply was founded in 1952 and operates out of Buffalo, New York. Titan Tool Supply is a supplier of optical instrumentation for research & development, quality control, and other professional industries. Titan Tool Supply’s product lines include borescopes, microscopes, illumination devices, and micro finishing. Titan Tool Supply also offers video systems and magnetics solutions. Titan Tool Supply offers customers a 10-day approval program that allows customers to trial products in their workplace to verify satisfaction before purchase.
Warren-Knight Instrument Co., established in 1908 and headquartered in Philadelphia, USA, is a manufacturer of precision measuring instruments and alignment systems. The company specializes in optical, electronic, and laser alignment systems, offering a range of specialty instruments. The company has been involved in the design and manufacture of various instruments, including land surveying equipment, distance measuring instruments for nautical applications, and angle measuring tools used in meteorological and surveying contexts. Its involvement with the US Department of Defense led to the creation of army boresights for tanks and military boresighting tools for Navy ships.
AMETEK, Inc. is based in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, USA, and is a manufacturer of testing instruments and electrical utility products established in 1968 following the merger of American Machine and Metals and Pennsalt Chemicals. The company’s products include process analyzers for measuring properties of media in industrial processes, calibration instruments for its process analysis sensors or gauges, and power quality analyzers for diagnosing the reliability of electrical output. The company also provides asset management, calibration and repair, and custom engineering services for client-specific projects.
Ranking as of December 2024
Derivation Method| Rank | Company | Click Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prisms India Private Limited |
41.1%
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| 2 | Titan Tool Supply, Inc. |
19.6%
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| 3 | Warren-Knight Instrument Company |
16.1%
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| 4 | AMETEK.Inc. |
14.3%
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| 5 | Brunson Instrument Company |
8.9%
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Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the alignment telescope page as of December 2024. Click share is defined as the total number of clicks for all companies during the period divided by the number of clicks for each company.Number of Employees
Newly Established Company
Company with a History
*Including some distributors, etc.
*Including some distributors, etc.
| Country | Number of Companies | Share (%) |
|---|---|---|
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United States of America
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3 | 60.0% |
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India
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1 | 20.0% |
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United Kingdom
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1 | 20.0% |
