Networked Equipment Makes Spherical and Aspheric Optics Manufacturing Predictable

In their quest for the twin grails of high production volume and extreme precision in the manufacture of both spherical and aspherical optical surfaces, manufacturers have been stymied by the difficulty of translating measurement results obtained from metrology tools to adjustments of grinding and polishing processes. In the past, this process involved manual analysis by highly skilled technical personnel — in other words, error-prone humans.