Micro-Vu

Micro-Vu was founded in 1959 in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California. The goal was to provide precision optical comparators at an affordable price. Small machine shops needed to improve the quality of their parts. Most measurement and inspection systems on the market were too expensive for the average small shop. Today, Micro-Vu designs, manufactures, and assembles in the heart of Northern California's wine country, now providing a large line of precision multisensor, vision, video, and optical measurement machines. Customers include the world's largest manufacturers as well as small job shops that seek high performance measurement equipment at a fair price. Micro-Vu's first product was a portable optical comparator. Micro-Vu designed a special lens system that offered bright images at a low cost. The comparator was an instant success. Over the years, Micro-Vu expanded its product line to fill the needs of customers developing larger and more accurate measuring machines. In the 1970s Micro-Vu offered a full line of optical comparators with advanced features like thru-the-lens surface illumination and integrated digital readouts (DROs). In 1980, Micro-Vu introduced the first metrology computer designed specifically for optical comparators. The Q16 and it's predecessor the MD-1, brought functionality to optical comparators that previously had been available only on coordinate measuring machines.