Kristina's World of Concrete Part 2: TamiSoft by Autom'elec
April 22, 2015
Kristina takes a look at the TamiSoft machine which offers granular measurement of aggregate chunks. The system triangulates Laser beams reflected off the aggregate into a camera, which records up to 1000 measurements per second.
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