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News Release from: Renishaw
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Team on 11 January 2006
Metalworking range to be displayed at
show
Renishaw will highlight products for the metalworking industry when it attends the Metapro exhibition at the Brussels International Exhibition Centre, Belgium, from 15th to 18th February 2006.
Renishaw will highlight products for the metalworking industry when it attends the Metapro exhibition at the Brussels International Exhibition Centre, Belgium, from 15th to 18th February 2006 At the metalworking trade fair, Metapro will cover technologies for sheet metalworking, welding, machining, surface treatment, automation and measurement
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Sep 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Exhibiting in Hall One, stand 226, Renishaw will highlight technologies for users and builders of precision machinery, including CNC machine tools and co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs).
These include TRS1, a tool recognition system for high-speed broken tool detection, PC-based software for part inspection on machine tools and a compact, high accuracy touch probe for small machining centres.
For machine builders, there is an angle encoder for precision position feedback on rotary axes and software for motion system analysis.
Visitors will also be able to see Renishaw's enabling technology to allow highly accurate, high speed five-axis scanning measurement on CMMs.
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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 technology distinguishes between the tool and coolant or swarf.
It comprises one unit containing the laser source and detection electronics, letting it be mounted outside the work area, safe from collision, and saving space on the table.
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OMV is a verification package that gives machine tool users CMM-style 3D verification against a CAD model.
The software is for manufacturers of complex and large parts, such as mould tools, and combines freeform and geometric features.
A point-and-click approach means the user can see the inspection path as it is generated, and make changes if required.
Combined with Renishaw's non-lobing, high accuracy spindle touch probes, such as the OMP400 touch probe, OMV provides accuracy of part verification on machine tools.
The OMP400 is a compact strain gauge probe for small machining centres, providing reduced set-up times, reduced scrap, reduced fixture costs, improved process control and accurate on-machine measurement.
Measuring 40mm in diameter and 50mm long, the probe combines the miniaturisation of the OMP40 touch probe with advances in strain gauge technology in the MP700 touch probe.
Quickview software makes the ML10 laser interferometer measurement system a more flexible and powerful analysis tool.
The software lets mechanical engineers study small variations in linear or angular displacement, velocity or acceleration.
With a simple graphical interface, Quickview allows flexible operation, avoiding the need for predefined measurement targets and sequences.
The Signum encoders provide high accuracy, resolution and repeatability with high speed, high operating temperatures, low cyclic error and In-Trac optical reference mark, which remains phased over the entire speed and temperature specification.
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The RESM angle encoder is a one-piece stainless steel ring with 20um scale marked directly on the periphery.
It is suitable for precision applications including machine tool rotary axes, and uses In-Trac, which repeats, regardless of direction, at operational speeds of over 4500rev/min (52mm diameter) and up to 85C.
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Initially available in Invar, which provides a low thermal expansion of 1.4um/m/C, the RELM scale has a choice of In-Trac reference mark positions and dual optical limits.
With the robust, 20um spars, this lets the RELM provide accuracy to +/-1um and resolution to 20nm.
Renscan5 technology allows the development of five-axis CMM scanning products that will measure at speeds of up to 500mm/s, and cut 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, reducing the dynamic errors caused when moving the larger mass of a CMM's structure.
Revo is the first product to take advantage of Renscan5.
The measuring head and probe system will increase inspection throughput while maintaining system accuracy.
It 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 taken, removing the inertial errors that result from acceleration of the machine during conventional three-axis scanning. Request free introductory details about products from Renishaw ...
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