Ergonomic lightweights
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Admittedly, a seat like this doesn‘t have it easy. It‘s got to hold up to use seven days a week, often 20 hours a day, over a lifespan of up to 30 years. Alongside reliability, lightweight construction is high on the check list of RECARO‘s developers at company headquarters in Schwäbisch Hall. More weight requires more fuel, which translates to higher expenses, and in this dynamic market, every saved litre of kerosene counts. The seat specialists at RECARO are focused intently on sitting itself. Ideally, airline passengers should arrive at their destination more relaxed than at boarding time.
How do the idea generators at RECARO find a balance between the weight efficiency, ergonomics, comfort and reliability of a seat? The company‘s development departments get essential impetus and ideas from measurement technology. Up till very recently, individual parts were still measured with a boom machine, a process requiring considerable manual effort. To comply with the zero-error strategy devised by the company management, RECARO had to strike out in new directions with regard to measurement technology. Accordingly, the demands placed on the coordinate measuring device to be used were high.
Material variety
"Precise measurement of work pieces is a basic requirement of making sure that the quality of the overall product meets the very high
Besides being a development site, Schwäbisch Hall is also the location of in-house manufacturing using deep-drawing and laser processes and of pre-assembly as well. A variety of different materials are processed to create components which demand complete flexibility from a measuring machine. The CMS106 contactless laser line sensor is part of the coordinate measuring device. This sensor is suitable for assembly groups with wall thicknesses in the millimetre range which can only be measured quickly and with the required accuracy using optical technology. The CMS106 can even carefully examine the tilt of tables and sleeping positions, cladding film and carbon-fibre products. When it comes to analysing sheet metal profiles or cuts with even greater accuracy, for example, Johannes Mainhardt (Inspector of Quality Measurement) switches to the LSP-X1 tactile high-speed scanning sensor, fully automatically using a tool changer.
Improved detail sharpness

Colours, not numbers
The DEA GLOBAL doesn’t just provide critical input on development, in-house manufacturing and assembly at the Schwäbisch Hall location, however. Should clarification be needed, other RECARO locations also send their parts to the company headquarters to be precisely examined with the coordinate measuring device.