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  • Intralox: Automation - The Key to Achieving Speed-to-Market Capability (.pdf)
    component of our strategy.". Intralox produces thousands of graphite electrodes per year that are used to make the molds for the various types of belts. "Before we purchased the CONTURA coordinate measuring machine (CMM) from Carl Zeiss, we were using general hand tool measuring devices like your
  • Using CAD Data to Build Molds By the Numbers Can Reduce Costs and Leadtime
    is in the design of the mold. CAD systems offer an efficient means of design, plus offer the opportunity to establish tooling points for milling operations and can be used to create inspection programs when used in conjunction with coordinate measuring machines and other inspection equipment. CAD data also
  • The Automation Renovation: Planning Your First Vision System (.pdf)
    in world units, calibration tools will also find their way into your toolbox. Most machine vision applications make. use of a calibrated coordinate system. The Matrox Imaging Library Metrology module analyzes the image of a machined hook. Based on its. features, the metrology results determine
  • Vibration Isolation of Precision Objects
    requiring vibration isolation: be reduced by the use of massive and expensive inertia blocks. · Vibration-sensitive machines and devices (precision machine. that disrupt production line flexibility. tools, coordinate measuring machines, or CMMs, electronic. A common solution in many cases is to use
  • Custom Gaging (.pdf)
    company. tions available--such as a coordinate. need for operator skill and the pos-. is going to ask. If they do not ask, it. measuring machine--if the "not-so-. sibility of operator influence. should be a red flag. It is critical to ask. simple" is included. But these options. · Cost of maintenance
  • An Alternative to Check Fixtures (.pdf)
    of. them have found is combining modular tooling, which can be used to build. holding fixtures, with portable CMMs (Coordinate Measuring Machines). Modular tooling can consist of a base plate with tapped holes set up in. a grid pattern that allows screws, standoffs, clamps and other holding. and fastening

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