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Trusty trio promotes production
The situation at the Garching works today: two DEA Scirocco measuring machines, each with a measurement range of 1000 x 1500 x 900 mm, are used in the measuring room close to the production lines to inspect parts produced for gearboxes. A further DEA Scirocco 10.15.9 is available for the retarder and damper production lines. The team in the measuring room works a three-shift pattern to provide support to production with initial samples, intermediate checks and special inspections such as component audits. Form and position tolerances of disc carriers, planet-gear carriers or housings are examples of the inspected parameters. The usual tolerances here are of the order of a few hundredths of a millimetre.The measurements are mainly performed by the metrology technicians: „Our team carries out over 90% of the measurement jobs in less than 45 minutes,“ says Bezner. For some tasks they rely on operator self-inspections. All the coordinate measuring machines have PC-DMIS metrology software installed on them and have been programmed for all the measurement processes. When performing their component inspections, the operatives work from an easy-to-follow user interface. One click on a photograph of the component is all it takes for the inspector to start the appropriate measuring program completely automatically.
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Capacity bonus from offline programming
The investment in a PC-DMIS offline programming station has paid off handsomely for Voith Turbo, Garching. The design department at Voith Turbo‘s HQ in Heidenheim creates CAD models, which form the base data. PC-DMIS was the first metrology software to bring CAD data into the measuring room and is therefore ideal for these applications. Metrology technician Alfred Schadenfroh uses the CAD data as the basis for the programming. „I can extract the volumetric model from the I-DEAS CAD program and use it to create the measuring program offline,“ says Schadenfroh. „Compared to our previous practice, where we would have done the programming on the coordinate measuring machine for the gearbox production line, we have raised our capacity by 30% – thanks to the offline programming station.“Whether it‘s hardware or software, Hexagon Metrology products cannot help but impress. Starting with the DEA IOTA followed by the DEA Mistral and DEA Scirocco models right up to the current DEA GLOBAL series – Voith Turbo has been with Hexagon Metrology from the beginning and looks forward to a confident future.