QC10 ballbar a key quality and productivity tool in Rockwell Automation's Power Lean manufacturing

QC10 ballbar used for both diagnosis and predictive maintenance to keep machine tools running and producing to specification.  Rockwell Automation Power Systems specialises in providing technologies and services for optimising power transmission performance and productivity. The company has turned its analytical and creative skills to developing an integrated process for continuous improvement of the manufacturing processes in its own plants.

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Hewland Engineering - rapid complex tool setting

Renishaw’s automatic tool setting and tool breakage detection systems recently installed at Hewland Engineering Ltd, are proving to be highly successful in raising productivity of transmission part manufacture for motor sport vehicles worldwide. Hewland h

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Ballbar diagnostics aid airframe manufacture

Without periodic checking and maintenance, CNC machine tools can lose positioning accuracy and introduce errors over time. Machining complex, high-value airframe components, BAE Systems turned to a wireless ballbar system to provide the machine tool diagn

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QC20-W ballbar system boosts confidence in pre-owned machine tool sales

Any company buying a used machine tool needs to be certain of its ability to deliver the accuracy demanded by its manufacturing process. For many companies, pre-purchase condition-checking by a certified machine inspector and thorough static accuracy meas

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Wireless QC20-W ballbar loses cable and gains support

NC Service, a Swedish machine tool calibration and maintenance company, who work with key CNC machine users, was one of the first users worldwide to take delivery of Renishaw's QC20-W ballbar. The new design eliminates issues with the previous QC10 when

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Machine tool probing increases FMS productivity by 60%

One of Trevisan’s longest-standing clients, a multinational provider of valves for the oil and gas sector, invited Trevisan to provide a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) that could produce valves with high precision and productivity, with minimal manua

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