In Formula 1 racing continues off the track. In one season, the Red Bull Racing team can carry out up to 30,000 design modifications. Hexagon’s measurement technology helps to constantly improvement of the car. Red Bull Racing use the Leica Absolute Tracker wireless measurement system for compliance inspections and for geometric checks on Formula 1 cars.

Around 1.25 million people travel by train in Switzerland every day. They expect comfort along with reliability and safety. That is why Stadler Rail use the Leica Absolute Tracker. It is used in the production of railway carriages to check the geometric fit of the carcases.

The Atlantis Space Shuttle was in service for 25 years and clocked up more than 193 million miles, which is the equivalent of 500 times the distance between the earth and the moon. In 2011 the Atlantis undertook the final Space Shuttle mission, ending an era that began in 1981. Leica Geosystems digital levels were used to monitor Space Shuttle ground infrastructure such as launch pads.

In the 1960s aircraft construction was all about supersonic jets, and in 1969 a Boeing 747 took off for the first time. It was the largest passenger aircraft in the world for many decades. The WILD N3 precision level was used in aircraft construction during the 1960s.

On 23 November 1967 two employees of WILD Heerbrugg measured an over 10 metre wide ADOLPH SAURER AG knitting machine in Arbon. Using three T2 WILD theodolites the length could be calculated very accurately. This impressed SAURER’s management so greatly that WILD received a thank you letter in December.

1958 – A turntable for a large machine tool was surveyed with a T2 theodolite. In addition, the telescope from a T3 theodolite was used as a collimator. This method made it possible to precisely measure the angle to within an arcsecond. No other method could produce more accurate results. Turntables like this were used on precision milling machines, for example, to manufacture high-precision gears or turbine blades.