Save time and costs with automated work piece setup

In your previous Priority Club blog post, we covered using pre-part probing to set up your work datum, including an automated option for this - Renishaw’s Machine Probe.

This way of setting up your work piece coordinate is the safest and most accurate. 

The process can be added to your part program and be fully automated, eliminating human error, as the system updates the Work Co-ordinate System (WCS) automatically measuring to sub-micron measurements. 

MSC’s official channel partner status with Renishaw means that we can provide you with access to Renishaw's portfolio of machine tool, co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM), styli and fixturing products. 

Our team of dedicated Applications Engineers regularly use the technology during customer projects to find timesaving and cost-saving processes for production.

Here, we’ll shed a bit more light on how this is playing out on shop floors like yours across the country…

The same system can also be used to detect tool breakage within production settings, eliminating scrap.

If a broken tool is detected, the system will call for a sister tool to be brought out to continue production.

The good stuff continues off the machine too:

Our Apps Engineers now bring with them the capabilities of off the machine inspection equipment.

• This includes the shop floor Equator system which will check all parts against a master component
• Or full 5 axis REVO CMM’s that our partners can retro fit on to your current CMMs, saving you masses of time by reducing inspection department bottle necks

As you can see, our partnerships like that with Renishaw, coupled with our experienced team of Apps Engineers, are built to make you better – and your life on the shop floor easier.

Reduced downtime, less broken tooling and less scrap are just some of the benefits that you could be enjoying by adopting an automated approach to setting up your work piece.