Take Messier-Dowty’s lead and actively monitor CMM performance
Do you trust your co-ordinate measuring machines? Take Messier-Dowty's lead and actively monitor CMM performance. Messier-Dowty, a SAFRAN Group company, designs and manufactures landing-gear systems...
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Airbus A380 aeroplane utilises linear encoders on wing-panel assembly machine.
View ArticleRenishaw systems crucial to manufacturing at Martin-Baker
Martin-Baker, the world’s leading supplier of aircraft ejection seats, rely on Renishaw’s QC10 ballbar and machine tool probe systems to manufacture complex, high-quality components.
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Renishaw probes cut production time
View ArticleHow to prosper as a UK machining sub-contractor
The directors of Castle Precision have embraced the latest technology in every discipline, but not for the sake of it – this is technology applied so effectively that in some cases ‘wasteful’...
View ArticleNew approach to manufacturing attracts royal interest
Martin Aerospace, a Rolls-Royce subcontractor, has employed high-accuracy Renishaw probes and a GSPS CNC Reporter™ process monitoring package to reduce machining lead times and improve consistency.
View ArticleManual setting and NC programming is needless for machine operators
Flexible, efficient, and “totally trustworthy” part set-up taken to a new level with probing routines programmed in a CAM environment - Sikorsky supplier Alp Aviation shows how to do it
View ArticleTURBOCAM "high fives" revolutionary five-axis measurement
Leader in five-axis turbomachinery production quickly adopts new five-axis Renishaw inspection system, gains faster throughput, greater CMM utilization, and easier programming
View Article"Nothing else comes close to REVO for CMM inspection”
Aerospace sub-contractor ANT Industries carried out a study on its production processes with the aim to make improvements, it was clear that inspection was a major bottleneck.
View ArticleMeasuring with speed and precision
A Madrid, Spain-based precision engineering business specialising in complex parts for aerospace and defence applications has invested in a Renishaw REVO® five-axis measuring head and probe system. The...
View ArticleAgustaWestland’s Wildcat Supplier
Tods Composite Solutions specialises in the Design & Build of lightweight structures in composite materials, providing solutions for demanding Aerospace and Defence applications and is a Gold...
View ArticleStrain-gauge machine-tool probe is right for 5-axis aerospace parts
Flat surfaces and straight lines are rare among the parts produced at Triumph Fabrications in Shelbyville, Indiana, which is a key reason the company upgraded the machine tool probe on one of its...
View ArticleAero-engine component maker Meyer Tool 'softens' up hard gauge costs with...
A software-driven comparative gauge, Renishaw's new Equator system is already starting to soften up the cost for numerous hard gauges at aero-engine component maker Meyer Tool, Cincinnati, OH. Meyer...
View ArticleCMM retrofit reduces inspection times and gains new business
After Future Advanced Manufacture (Future AM) won a valuable contract to make Titanium blades for a new propulsion system in the US, it invested in a Renishaw REVO® five-axis measuring head and probe...
View ArticleLaser encoders an enabling technology for accurate machining of 40 m...
Flow International Corporation has selected Renishaw HS10 and HS20 laser encoders for use on the company's Composites Machining Center (CMC). These deliver part per million accuracy on X axis motion...
View ArticleIncremental encoders help optimise the fuel efficiency of aero-engines
HAESL (Hong Kong Aero Engine Services Limited) believes that it has successfully solved this challenge by incorporating Renishaw's TONiC incremental linear and rotary (angle) encoders within its new...
View Article“Since using Equator™ we have not made a single bad part and have reduced...
High-Tech Engineering, a precision engineering company based in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK, has always focused on the quality of the parts it produces. Now with its latest addition, a Renishaw...
View ArticleAerospace case studies
Air travel popularity continues to grow, especially in Asia, and demand for passenger aircraft is higher than ever as a result. The 2015 Boeing Global Market Forecast sees the commercial fleet doubling...
View ArticleBallbar diagnostics aid airframe manufacture
Without periodic checking and maintenance, CNC machine tools can lose positioning accuracy and introduce errors over time. Machining complex, high-value airframe components, BAE Systems turned to a...
View ArticleRenishaw reduces machining time for aerospace impeller manufacturer
Honeywell Aerospace, part of global commercial and consumer engineering conglomerate Honeywell, produces a large number of the impellers and blisks used in commercial aeroplanes. The impellers, which...
View Article50% faster turbine blade inspection
Europea Microfusioni Aerospaziali (EMA), is part of the Rolls-Royce Group, a world leader in the manufacturing of propulsion systems for civil and military aircraft, ships, submarines and turbines for...
View ArticleWhat does it take to succeed at machining hogouts?
R&D Manco is a Phoenix, Arizona, machining subcontractor serving prime contractors in the aerospace industry. The parts it machines include certified, highly engineered components of aircraft fuel...
View ArticleQuickstep Technologies halves part set up time
The combination of MSP’s NC-Checker and NC-PerfectPart software is delivering significant savings for Quickstep Technologies’ manufacturing processes.
View ArticleRenishaw Equator™ gauge enables production growth at major aerospace...
When Senior Aerospace Weston wanted to become more efficient in the inspection of critical machined aerostructure parts, the company turned to Renishaw and its class-leading Equator™ gauging system....
View Article3D scanning boosts accuracy and efficiency of bladed disk milling process
Based in Ufa, Russia, Technopark Aviation Technologies, a provider of educational and scientific research and engineering services, worked closely with the country’s largest provider of gas turbine...
View ArticleRESOLUTE™ encoders make RF antenna positioning accuracy and resolution one...
Pacific Antenna Systems (PAS) designs, fabricates and manufactures state-of-the-art antenna systems that use radio frequencies (RF) ranging from 1–110 GHz. Applications include high-resolution radar,...
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