Renishaw drives ahead at autosport show

Renishaw will highlight technologies for the motorsport industry when it attends the Autosport Engineering show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK.

Renishaw will highlight technologies for the motorsport industry when it attends the Autosport Engineering show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK, on 12th and 13th January 2006.

The show has two dedicated sections for manufacturing technology and automotive electronics.

On stand E175, Renishaw will focus on products that will let motorsport companies and their suppliers get the most from machine tools, increasing machine output and reducing quality costs.

These include the OMP60 compact touch probe for machining centres and mill-turn machines, the TRS1 tool recognition system for high-speed broken tool detection, and a compact, high accuracy touch probe for small machining centres.

Other products to be shown include the QC10 ballbar system for the fast analysis of machine tool performance and an enabling technology that will allow highly accurate, high speed five-axis scanning measurement on coordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

The OMP60 touch probe is compatible with all Renishaw optical receivers and next generation optical systems.

It provides set-up time reductions, reduced scrap, reduced fixture costs and improved process control.

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 tool recognition technology distinguishes between the tool and coolant or swarf.

It comprises a single unit containing the laser source and detection electronics, enabling it to be mounted outside the working area, safe from collision and saving space on the table.

The OMP400 touch probe is a 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 40mm in diameter and 50mm long, the probe combines the miniaturisation of the OMP40 with advances in strain gauge technology used in the MP700 touch probe.

Since its launch 10 years ago, the QC10 ballbar has established itself as an standard system for rapid machine tool performance analysis and diagnosis.

Show visitors will learn that the its ballbar test typically takes about 15 minutes.

The ballbar attaches magnetically between the machining centre's spindle and table, and tracks machine movement to +/-0.5um.

A CNC circular program is run which lets the ballbar software calculate machine circularity error, servo gain mismatch, vibration, stick-slip errors, backlash, repeatability and scale mismatch, as well as machine geometry.

Renscan5 technology allows the development of five-axis CMM scanning products that will measure at speeds up to 500mm/s, and virtually eliminates the measurement errors normally associated with existing three-axis scanning systems.

A five-axis system allows the lighter measuring head to perform most of the motion during inspection routines, reducing the dynamic errors caused when moving the larger mass of a CMM structure.

Visitors will also be able to see Revo, the first product to take advantage of Renscan5 technology.

Revo will increase inspection throughput while maintaining system accuracy.

Revo uses synchronised motion when scanning to follow changes in part geometry without introducing its own dynamic errors.

This lets the CMM move at a constant velocity along a constant vector while measurements are being taken, removing the inertial errors that result from acceleration of the machine during conventional three-axis scanning.

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