Leitz - Precision CMMs and Gear Inspection Centres
 
 
Automotive
With the ever-shorter design-to-production runs, assorted automotive manufacturers and their suppliers have turned to industrial metrology solutions to find ways to decrease ramp up times, increase productivity, reduce part rejection and improve the quality of their products.

From inspecting multiple bodies-in-white in one setup with laser tracker systems, prototype part inspection or die build and tryout validation with white light scanner systems, checking fit-and-finish tolerances in a car's interior with articulated arms to entirely automated gantry and horizontal arm coordinate measurement machines (CMMs) installations and everything in-between, Hexagon Metrology's customer roster reads like a "Who's Who?" of the world's most successful car companies.



 
Robert Bosch - Immenstadt
Perfect prototype measurement

Small but very capable components are in great demand in the motorvehicle industry. This doctrine of the designers leads to ever-tighter tolerances on vehicle components. And continues to throw down new challenges to quality management – also at the Robert Bosch Works, Immenstadt . The Metrology Team tackles its tasks in the prototyping ...

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Ingersoll - Haiger
Effective hob cutter inspections

Ingersoll knows precisely how gears get their teeth. The company specialises in vibration-free cutting tools. At its factory in Haiger,  Ingersoll Werkzeuge GmbH concentrates on the design and manufacture of large-volume special tools, among them multithread hob cutters for the gearmaking industry. During production, these hob cutters ...

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Robert Bosch GmbH - Gerlingen
Calibrating in the premier league

Robert Bosch GmbH has been playing in the league of exceptional calibration laboratories certified by the German Calibration Service (DKD) for more than 25 years. Over this time, the central calibration laboratory at the company‘s headquarters in Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe has risen to become an internationally renowned institution. A ...

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Gruenewald - Graevenwiesbach
All-round coordinate measuring system facilitates testing of constant velocity joints and tools

Grünewald Feinmaschinenbau has facilities in Grävenwiesbach in Hessia and in Weilmünster and is a company that enjoys a complex challenge. This family-owned business produces various drive components for its customers to drive a diverse range of vehicles, such as HGVs, military vehicles, racing cars, ships or rail vehicles. Constant ...

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Bosch Rexroth - Nuremberg
Coordinate metrology for power packs

The performance demanded from machines working in mining, forestry and agriculture are also expected from their power packs. These machines lift and lower tonnes of material, drill into almost impenetrable rock and plough through heavy soils. Hydraulics from Rexroth play their part in this, too. At its factory in Nuremberg, the Mobile Hydraulics ...

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AUDI HUNGARIA MOTOR - Gyõr
Leitz CMMs with QUINDOS test the accuracy of engine components for one of the largest engine plants in the world

Autobahn signs can already be seen some 1,5 hours Southeast of the Vienna city lines announcing the famous four interlinked rings. Immediately a vision pops into your mind: a sporty Audi racing through the spectacular landscape, hugging the passing curves of the hilly, serpentine and perfectly smooth asphalt. A part of this image your having is ...

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BIMAQ - Bremen
The proof of the pudding: scientists use 3D measuring technology to research production methods for metal components

Generally speaking, the city of Bremen is known for its famous Town Musicians. However, passionate engineers know that Distortion Engineering is the new brand of this Hanseatic City. The term was coined by the University of Bremen where in 2001 the special research programme 570 was created with the same name, which attracts funding from the ...

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SFS intec - Heerbrugg
Versatile use of the Leitz PMM-C Ultra with small precision parts

In the production halls articles are pressed, turned, ground and rolled. Hammering and clattering fills every nook and cranny. Thousands of small parts are tumbling into their assigned bins. At first glance the picture is deceptive: diversity rules here. Swiss concern SFS intec concentrates on the design and manufacture of customer-specific ...

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Reishauer - Wallisellen
Leitz CMMs have been ensuring the accuracy of gear grinding machines for decades

When Renato Righes speaks about his work as QS Engineer at Reishauer AG in Wallisellen (Switzerland), you can sense that every decimal place of a micrometer reading counts in this company. For only if the accuracy of the Reishauer gear grinding machines is guaranteed to the last detail can the gear wheels ground on these machines perform their job ...

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Messtronik Weisser - Langenschiltach
The Black Forest: here Precision is a Tradition

The unmistakable style of its halftimbered houses, mills, wines, and smoked ham. These are but a few of the best known traditions of the Black Forest, Germany’s “green lung” between the Rhine and Danube rivers that borders on France and Switzerland. Yet, there is another less known tradition here in this south-western part of Germany: accuracy. ...

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Del West Europe - Roche
Del West Europe Measures up to Formula 1 Standards

It is a paradox that Del West Europe SA, a world leader in supplying valve train components to virtually all Formula 1 engine manufacturers, is located in Switzerland, a country that manufactures no cars. “It was a deliberate decision,” says Bruno Engelric, Del West Europe’s managing director, ”For one thing, Switzerland is centrally located ...

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Heller - Nürtingen
Measuring with Accuracy. No Compromise.

With 110 years of history, 2,200 employees throughout the world, a line of products spanning milling machines for camshafts and crankshafts, machining centers, services to the customers that go beyond the mere technical support: Gebr. Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Nürtingen, in the south of Germany, provides project management covering the ...

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