Gear manufacturer achieves consistent quality with automated robot cell

Gear and gearbox manufacturer Katsa Oy commissioned Flexmill Oy to design and build a robotised cell to finishmachine and deburr gears ranging in size from 50 mm to 1.5 m diameter. The bespoke, turnkey cell incorporates Renishaw RMP60 probes, mounted on custom-designed tool holders, which an ABB robot uses to collect vital part-location data before finishing and deburring operations commence.

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Gear inspection is 30 times faster with form measurement

Meltham Mills Engineering (MME) now takes only eight minutes to inspect every critical feature on a typical gear component, compared to four hours previously – 30 times faster. Simultaneously, data is gathered on the form of features, the first time MME

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Special purpose machine manufacturer invests in Renishaw alignment system to expand its capabilities

To ensure that it could deliver the best results for large-scale customer projects, specialist machine manufacturer Metecno Oy, worked with global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, to implement a geometric error measurement system. By investing

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Magnetic encoders contribute to reliable wafer transfer robots

A wafer ultimately becomes multiple IC-units in a series of complicated processes, where wafers rely on a wafer transfer robot to perform fast and accurate transfers between process stations. Wafers are valuable and break easily, meaning that stability an

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Driving hard for quality and cost reduction

Nissan saves £250,000 and achieves zero scrap with Renishaw probe systems. With negative headlines often surrounding the Western car industry, it is easy to forget that major manufacturers continue to operate world-class volume vehicle production faciliti

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Laser interferometer error-proofs linear scale calibration

To achieve consistent sub-micron measurement accuracy, an automated line scale calibration system developed by the Standards and Calibration Laboratory (SCL) in Hong Kong made automatic error compensation a key design criteria. A Renishaw XL-80 laser inte

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