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Renishaw: Versatile New Gaging System
Hoffman Estates, IL — Renishaw’s Equator™ is a radical new alterna- tive to traditional dedicated gaging, filling a gap in the market never before addressed. It is more than just a new gaging system, it marks the launch of the company’s first gaging product line. The patented low-cost design,
unique in construction and method of operation, is capa- ble of high-speed compara- tive gaging for inspection of high-volume manufactured parts. It has been developed and proven on the shop-floor in collaboration with indus- try-leading companies in the automotive, aerospace and medical sectors. The result is a lightweight, fast and high- ly repeatable gage that oper- ators can use with “push- button” simplicity. Equator can switch between parts in seconds, making it especially suitable for flexible manu- facturing processes or accepting parts from multi- ple machines. Based on an easily scalable and adaptable “paral- lel kinematic” structure, Equator’s patented principle allows high speed scanning and rapid moves between features, while retaining stiffness that delivers impressive point-to- point repeatability, critical for accu- rate gaging. Installation of an Equator can be
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performed in minutes, and an opera- tor can switch between gaging of dif- ferent parts in seconds. Recon fig - uration of the gaging system to accommodate part design changes, or to measure new parts, is possible in a fraction of the time needed for conven- tional custom gaging, using industry standard DMIS programming. Equator systems are available
with two levels of software, a pro- grammable version for production engineers to create DMIS programs and, at a lower price, a shop floor sys- tem which allows those programs to be executed but prevents operators from making modifications. Both software levels include easy-to-use MODUS™ Organizer
”Equator” measuring system.
operator front-end software. In the programmable version, MODUS Equator programming software allows engineers to rapidly create gaging routines for any part — sim- ple or complex, prismatic or free- form. The software has the ability to easily program scanning measure- ments and touch points, using the industry-standard Renishaw SP25 compact scanning probe. Scanning allows thousands of data points to be taken to define a feature for true
form analysis. Contact: Renishaw, Inc., 5277
Trillium Boulevard, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 % 847-286-9953 E-mail:
jeffrey.seliga@
renishaw.com Web:
www.renishaw.com/probes
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