Renishaw: enhancing efficiency in manufacturing and healthcare

A close-up of the Ionoptika imprint, the logo is 20 µm in width, and the first ‘i’ just 70 nm wide

In 1989, Leeds-based Dana Spicer needed a large, heavy duty CNC machining centre, to mill, drill, and bore the ends of 2-metre long axle beams, for heavy off-road vehicles. The ideal machine, with a bed length of 5-metres, would allow pendulum machining, thereby increasing production.

Binns & Berry is one of the few remaining family-owned machine tool manufacturing companies in the UK. It manufactures CNC lathes to individual customer specifications as well as providing a refurbishment service for existing machines. The company is renowned for its large, rigid machines, supplied with axis swings of between 0.7m and 1.4m. Currently, over half of the compan...

HAAS Automation Inc. used to fine-tune every one of its VF vertical machining centres through a mechanical fore-and-aft loading test, with results entered into the CNC as a compensation value. Recently HAAS enhanced this test with backlash compensation using Renishaw’s QC10 Ballbar System. By measuring position errors throughout a complete circle, the Ballbar isolates effects of...

Czech manufacturer PTV, spol s.r.o., based in Prague, has experienced a very rapid increase in sales of its CNC water-jet cutting machines.  To help manage this growth, the company uses Renishaw’s ML10 laser interferometer measurement system and QC10 ballbar, which has reduced manufacturing costs and increased machine accuracy by a factor of four.