The composite material HoverLIGHT sets new standards for the construction of machine tools: by combining aluminum foam and particle-filled hollow spheres, HoverLIGHT achieves an unprecedented combination of lightness, stiffness, and vibration damping.
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ZeroTouch enables shop floor inspection, in-line or nearline focused on providing immediate and relevant dimensional inspection and analysis. The shop floor gauges can sit directly in the manufacturing area and are often integrated in line with the manufacturing process.
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Over the years, the company’s conventional tactile 3D measuring system became more of a problem. While reliable, it required specialized operators with years of training. Even then, each complex component took up to two hours to measure—time that was not viable in a fast-paced, competitive landscape.
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Smart data networking creates the greatest added value. For this reason, interface standards that ensure cross-manufacturer communication between machines and the smooth exchange of measurement results in the factory are increasingly coming into focus.
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A good deal of literature on crack development has focused on the depth of valleys in the texture. The roughness parameter ‘Rv,’ which reports the maximum valley depth, has been used to attempt to predict and prevent cracking. This approach, however, has significant shortcomings.
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As manufacturers in other industries integrate AM into mass production, can volume manufacturers of medical parts do the same? In this article Enrico Orsi, an Additive Manufacturing Product Manager at Renishaw, explores.
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Lockheed Martin recently added 16,000-square-feet of state-of-the-art AM space to its Grand Prairie, Texas, facility. The expansion includes some of the largest format, multi-laser machines in Texas, as well as heat treatment and inspection equipment that enables rapid development and production of AM parts across the corporation.
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With the right solution, 3D metrology can not only boost accurate and precise measurements, but also eliminate reworking, reduce iterations, and enable smoother troubleshooting by providing rich data on malfunctioning products without the need of physically disassembling parts.
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Medical manufacturers were early adopters of AM to develop patient specific parts with complex geometries at low volume. As AM technology develops, more medical manufacturers are considering how they can now implement it into mass manufacturing.
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Thanks to compatibility with both tactile and optical measurement systems, modular clamping solutions offer a flexible approach that engineers can adapt to various metrology tasks.
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