CMM Renishaw to showcase smart manufacturing solutions at Mach 2024

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Precision engineering and manufacturing technologies company, Renishaw, is exhibiting its range of smart manufacturing technologies at this year’s Mach exhibition in Birmingham, UK (15-19 April).

Increasing the level of automation is the first step in addressing manufacturing challenges such as the availability of skilled labour and achieving cost-effective, high-precision manufacturing 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To help customers with their automation efforts, Renishaw has developed a factory connectivity and data-driven manufacturing platform, Central. This platform collects, collates and presents actionable manufacturing process and metrology data that can be used to monitor the real-time performance of CNC machine tools, metrology systems and Renishaw additive manufacturing machines. Visitors to Mach will be able to see a real-time demonstration of how Renishaw Central digitises, visualises and controls CNC machining and integrated metrology processes on the company's stand (130, Hall 18).

In 1972, Renishaw’s co-founder invented a probe that made it possible to automate measurement on co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs). Today, the company continues to be a leader of global developments in automation, with an extensive range of technologies for automated process control and part verification on display at Mach 2024.

Making its UK debut at Mach is the world’s smallest wireless machine tool probe. Renishaw’s RMP24-micro measures just 24 mm in diameter and 31.4 mm in length. The tiny probe offers exceptional repeatability and an ultra-low trigger force – ideal for use in compact machines that make high-precision miniature components.

Other products on the Renishaw stand demonstrate the unique breadth of technologies available to support CNC manufacturing.

The Fortis range of enclosed encoders for challenging environments allows machine tool and systems builders to meet high performance and uptime requirements, while achieving energy savings up to 91 percent without risks in reliability. Scale lengths up to 4.24 metres can now be supplied for larger CNC gantry mills, turning machines, or grinders. Fortis encoder systems with industry-leading vibration resistance are being adopted widely across a range of CNC machine tools and new emerging applications such as giga-casting for the automotive industry.

CNC machine calibration and performance optimisation products, including upgraded Carto software, demonstrate the enhanced performance monitoring of precision machinery.

Also on display will be the latest developments in CMM measurement technology with the Revo 5-axis multi-sensor system, featuring an increasingly comprehensive range of sensors and probes for multiple, complex inspection applications on a single CMM. The system’s infinite positioning and rapid measurement also reduces the requirement for complex styli configurations and calibration time. The benefit to users is increased throughput and significantly reduced shopfloor and quality lab measurement costs.

A special exhibit on the stand is the track bike developed by the British cycling team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Renishaw provided additive manufacturing expertise to develop and build innovative ultra lightweight parts for the bike that contributed to the team winning seven track medals. This partnership has since been renewed for the development of a new model ahead of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

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