30 June 2024 Production Engineering Solutions pesmedia.com QUALITY & INSPECTION Status Metrology Solutions has been acknowledged by Renishaw as a distinguished Channel Partner, granting the Ilkeston, Derbyshire-based company exclusive access to Renishaw’s Equator gauging system portfolio. This complements Status Metrology’s dedication to delivering precision measurement solutions across diverse industries. In manufacturing, ensuring precision and consistency through accurate measurements is crucial. Even slight measurement deviations can trigger costly errors, production delays and jeopardise product quality. This is where Equator gauging technology steps in, taking precision to new levels and providing manufacturers with a reliable tool to fine tune their measurement processes. Renishaw Equator gauging technology operates as a highspeed comparative coordinate measuring machine (CMM) in manufacturing. The process involves touch-trigger probing, calibration with a master part for reference, and programmed measurement routines using specialised software. The Equator gauge then autonomously collects data points on the part’s surface, capturing coordinates in 3D space. The software analyses and compares this measurement with the reference, calculating any reference standards, carrying out traceable DAkkS calibrations with very low measurement uncertainties, which only a few accredited laboratories worldwide can offer. Its customers include renowned manufacturers and users in the field of tactile and optical measuring systems as well as manufacturers of reference standards, calibration laboratories and measuring service providers. The company, run by two managing directors Klaus Banzhaf and Theo Hageney, has several Class 1 precision measuring rooms, i.e. the highest category. This classification allows only minimal deviations from the reference temperature of 20°C – essential for accurate measurement results. Temperature and expansion are significant factors influencing measurement uncertainty. In its measuring rooms, the calibration experts use two form measuring devices from Japanese metrology specialist Accretech’s Rondcom product line – popular with quality assurance experts all over the world for its stability and reproducibility as well as its powerful and user-friendly software. Eumetron GmbH is able to offer high accuracy standards through the equipment it uses and its vast in-house expertise. This includes stable and proven procedures with minimal measurement uncertainty for DAkkS calibrations – for example, the multi-layer method for roundness measurements. The test standard is measured at different points and with different orientations, allowing systemic and random deviations to be almost completely eliminated. “This enabled us to reduce the measurement uncertainty from 100nm to just 10nm,” explains eumetron GmbH technician Andreas Pierro. “Only a few laboratories in the world are able to achieve these levels of accuracy.” For the measurement of roundness deviations in setting rings and mandrels, inner and outer cylinders as well as balls and hemispheres, eumetron GmbH has achieved a highly impressive expanded measurement uncertainty of U = 0.01μm + 0.05 x10-6 x RONt (RONt: roundness deviation of the part to be calibrated). Around 180 test parts pass through the Rondcom devices at the German company every month. One nanometre corresponds to 10-9 metres, i.e. one millionth of a millimetre or one billionth of a metre. Or put another way – one nanometre is to 1m as the diameter of a one-cent coin is to the diameter of the globe. DAkkS accreditation – and subsequent regular audits – confirm that organisations such as calibration, testing, inspection or certification bodies perform their activities in accordance with internationally recognised standards. DAkkS calibrations are the highest calibration level below the national standards and traceability to national standards is guaranteed. Only accredited laboratories carry them out in accordance with DIN EN ISO 17025. The laboratories calculate the exact measurement uncertainties and assign them to each measurement result. DAkkS laboratories must prove for all calibrations that the measurement uncertainties specified on the calibration certificate issued are adhered to. Q Accretech SBS UK www.accretech.eu/en Status Metrology Solutions has been recognised as a Renishaw Channel Partner for its range of Equator gauging systems A prestige partnership in game-changing metrology The Equator gauge’s versatility makes it suitable for a variety of shopfloor environments Scan here for more Accretech SBS articles
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