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Metrology Meets Machining

Increasingly, machining operations are measuring and adjusting on the fly

Wed, 11/08/2023 - 11:00
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(Bernard: Palatine, IL) -- As further evidence of the ongoing (at light speed) development in part production across all industries, four of Bernard & Co.’s clients have married machining with metrology. Essentially, the measurement of a machined or additive part is being done in the cutting theater, thus eliminating the labor- and time-intensive process of taking parts down the hall to a CMM for validation against the CAD file.

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In this “marriage,” the cutting parameters are captured, fed to a cloud-based or host server, instantly compared to the CAD specs, and then, as needed, the machine adjusts its cutting of the very next parts. This is a genuinely giant step on the path to digitalization and machine learning. Do I see AI coming over the horizon? Actually, no, it’s pulling into the driveway!

Here’s what just four of Bernard & Co.’s forward-thinking clients are doing:

ANCA, the global leader in tool-grinding machines, has joined with Zoller in the AIMS system, which stands for ANCA Integrated Manufacturing System. All done in a virtually unattended environment; you can watch it here.

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