New launches move on from Hanover to Milan

After launching a wide range of new products at EMO Hanover, Renishaw will be giving an Italian premiere for many of these innovative solutions at the new Bimec exhibition in Milan.

After launching a wide range of new products at EMO Hanover, Renishaw will be giving an Italian premiere for many of these innovative solutions at the new Bimec exhibition in Milan from 5th to 8th October 2005.

This new biennial show will fill eight halls of the Milan Fair Ground, and focuses on the mechanics and automation sectors.

Renishaw will exhibit in Hall 11, on Stand B03.

The major focus will be on new products for CNC machine tools, including OMP60, a compact touch probe for machining centres and mill-turn machines, the new TRS1 tool recognition system for high-speed tool breakage detection and OMP400, an ultracompact high accuracy touch probe for small machining centres.

Renishaw's new OMP60 touch probe is the first of a new generation of optical transmission products designed for compatibility with all current Renishaw optical receivers and next generation optical systems.

It brings the benefits of probing to a wide range of machine tools, offering users setup time reductions of up to 90%, reduced scrap, reduced fixture costs, and improved process control.

A new system for tool breakage detection, the TRS1 projects a beam of laser light at a tool and monitors the scattered light that is reflected to determine if the tool has been broken.

This new tool recognition technology distinguishes between the tool and coolant or swarf, whilst it is also fast and reliable under real machining conditions.

More reliable than conventional noncontact systems, the TRS1 comprises a single unit containing the laser source and detection electronics, enabling it to be mounted outside of the working envelope, safe from collision and saving valuable space on the table.

The OMP400 from Renishaw is an innovative, ultracompact strain gauge probe for small machining centres, offering reduced set-up times, reduced scrap, reduced fixture costs, improved process control and high accuracy on-machine measurement.

Measuring only 40mm in diameter and 50mm in length, the OMP400 combines the miniaturisation of the highly successful OMP40 probe with new advances in strain gauge technology, pioneered by Renishaw's high accuracy MP700 probe.

Also on show will be Renishaw's first PC-based inspection software for machine tools.

The Renishaw OMV (on machine verification) software is specifically written for machine tools, targeting the inspection of prototypes, complex and large parts, multi-operation parts, and die and mould parts, against original CAD data.

With a straightforward point-and-click approach, inspection could not be simpler.

By clicking various features on the modelled part, the inspection path is automatically generated.

Using Renishaw's nonlobing, high accuracy spindle probes such as the new compact OMP400, surface data is measured and sent to the PC, where powerful (CMM style) measurement algorithms process the data.

Bimec is being promoted by Ucimu-Sistemi per Produrre, the Italian machine tools, robotics and automation association that promotes specific trade fair events.

The eight halls will be hosted in Pavilions 9-10-11-12 of the Milan fairgrounds area: Ammtech (assembling and handling technology) hosted in partnership with Aida, the Italian assembly association; Sfortec (technical subcontracting) sponsored by the Inter-Association Subcontracting Committee; CAE Tech (CAE CAD CAM, prototyping) whose hall benefit from the sponsorship of APRI, the Italian Rapid Prototyping Association; Mycronic Tech (measuring, control, quality); Tool Tech (tooling); Salda Tech (welding machines, equipment, materials) hosted in co-operation with Anasta, the National Association of Welding, Cutting, and Related Techniques; Compo Tech (components, accessories, equipment), and Mondo Officina (workshop equipment, logistics, environment and safety).

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