• AKI has recently developed the SLAM probe for head stack angle and z-ht measurements. 

• It is the first autocollimator to take direct angle and height measurements from air bearing surfaces in a head stack. 

• A vision camera is included to measure other parameters, such as slider alignment and to simplify setup. 

• The SLAM probe dedicates a laser source and set of optics for up facing and down facing heads. 

• Optically, this probe is an extension of the AKI SAZ probes, which dramatically improves HGA to stack correlation. 

• The SLAM probe is an order of magnitude better than competing products for speed and gage capability.

¹ Over 80% of full range.

² Certain slider and suspension geometries may increase the minimum spacing.

Setup Program
Each probe comes with a simple yet powerful sample program which is very useful for setup, troubleshooting, testing and learning.

Custom Program
AKI can also provide a custom program tailored to the customer’s exact needs.  This can include interfacing with other hardware and/or motion control.

Integration into your own program. 
Developers can choose to write their own program using the AKI Software Libraries. You may choose from either an ActiveX COM object or a .NET dll in order to communicate with the AKI Probe. Integration is extremely simple and source code examples are supplied for any development language.

Compatible Development Environments;

• Visual C++ 6.0 MFC
• Visual Basic 6.0
• C#.NET VS 2003/2005/2008
• VB.NET VS 2003/2005/2008
• C++.NET VS 2003/2005/2008
• Labview 7.1/8.0

*Software is based on Cognex Vision Pro Libraries

Compatible Operating Systems

• Win2000
• WinNT4 SP6
• WinXP (SP1, SP2)