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News Release from: Renishaw
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 03 October 2005
Manufacturing innovations move on to
Canada
Following the successful introduction of a wide range of new manufacturing innovations at EMO Hanover, Renishaw will be giving Canadian premieres to these new products in Toronto.
Following the successful introduction of a wide range of new manufacturing innovations at EMO Hanover, Renishaw will be giving Canadian premieres to these new products at this year's Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show (CMTS), being held in Toronto, Ontario from 17th to 20th October 2005 The show will be attended by Renishaw (Canada), which is based in Mississauga, Ontario, having been established in 2003 to offer support and demonstration facilities for local customers
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Renishaw will exhibit at Booth 4227.
Productivity solutions on show for CNC machine tools include TRS1, a new tool recognition system for high-speed broken tool detection, new PC-based on-machine verification software for inspection on machine tools, and an ultracompact high accuracy touch probe for small machining centres.
For machine builders there is a new angle encoder for precision position feedback on rotary axes and new software for motion system analysis.
Visitors will also be able to see Renishaw's revolutionary new enabling technology that will allow highly accurate, ultra high speed five-axis scanning measurement on co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs).
The new TRS1 broken tool detection system 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.
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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.
Also being shown is 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 are measured and sent to the PC, where powerful (CMM style) measurement algorithms process the data.
The OMP400 from Renishaw is an innovative, ultra-compact strain gauge probe for small machining centres, offering reduced setup 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.
Offering high speed, noncontact performance, combined with advanced features including the In-Trac auto-phase optical reference mark, Renishaw's new Signum range of encoders, includes the high accuracy RESM optical angle encoder.
The RESM is a one-piece stainless steel ring with 20um graduations marked axially on the periphery, offering accuracy to +/-0.5arc-sec and resolution and repeatability to 0.02arc-sec.
It is highly suitable for precision applications including machine tool rotary axes, with the IN-TRAC reference mark repeatable in both directions at speeds over 3600rev/min (52mm diameter) and up to 85C.
For precision motion system analysis, QuickView is a unique software package from Renishaw designed to make the ML10 laser an even more flexible and powerful analysis tool.
For years, electronic engineers have relied on oscilloscopes to study high-speed variations in voltage or current.
Now, QuickView software provides mechanical engineers with a similar capability, allowing them to study minute variations in linear or angular displacement, velocity or acceleration.
With a simple graphical interface QuickView allows very flexible operation, avoiding the need for predefined measurement targets and sequences - just point and measure, ideal for ad-hoc system investigations.
The introduction of Renscan5 technology allows the development of a range of breakthrough five-axis CMM scanning products that will measure at speeds of up to 500mm/s, and virtually eliminates the measurement errors normally associated with existing three-axis scanning systems.
A five-axis system achieves this by allowing the lighter measuring head to perform most of the motion during inspection routines, minimising the dynamic errors caused when moving the larger mass of a CMM structure.
The first product to take advantage of the new Renscan5 technology is Revo, the first in a family of revolutionary measuring head and probe systems that will maximise inspection throughput, whilst maintaining a high-level of system accuracy.
Revo uses synchronised motion when scanning to quickly follow changes in part geometry, without introducing its own dynamic errors.
This allows the CMM to move at a constant velocity along a constant vector whilst measurements are being taken, removing the inertial errors that result from acceleration of the machine during conventional three-axis scanning.
Held every two years in the heart of Canada's manufacturing corridor, the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show (CMTS) is Canada's largest forum for domestic and international manufacturers and distributors to display the full range of manufacturing machinery, plant-floor automation technology and support products. Request free introductory details about products from Renishaw ...
With more than 600 leading manufacturers and distributors gathered under one roof CMTS is Canada's definitive manufacturing event.
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