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Renishaw Canada successfully combines international engineering expertise

Renishaw Canada hosted three other companies in an event to promote expert engineering collaborations. The invite-only event was held at the Centre Technologique en Aérospatiale (CTA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in February to demonstrate Renishaw’s new technologies through the use of interactive workshops.

The CTA specialises in the application of aerospace technology and involves more than 200 companies in the greater Montreal area. Over recent years, the centre has been recognised for its superior research in this field.

The days were split into two sessions, each with four workshops. Over the two days, live demonstrations were performed directly on the machines, to demonstrate how the most recent software and manufacturing equipment can improve cycle time and process quality.

metrology software products ltd (MSP) presented Workshop 2: ‘Fixtureless, automated 5-axis repositioning of a component before machining’ with Canadian firm Avantage Mécanique Inc. This demonstrated the integration of NC-PerfectPart, a system which automatically aligns parts, with the CAM software and post-processor to provide accurate part location before machining.

Avantage Mécanique Inc. offer consultancy services and custom turnkey solutions to support new CNC machine tool integration from acquisition to production.

NC-PerfectPart uses probing to firstly diagnose if a machine tool is capable of producing a part to tolerance. This removes the possibility of machine error at the first hurdle, therefore stopping a bad part from being produced. The second module of the software continues to utilise the probing to automate the alignment of the part and will compensate for any errors, such as fixturing or part distortion; common problems within 5-axis machining.

Three more workshops were conducted by Renishaw Canada and the CTA. Topics included error correction for 5-axis machining and 5-axis scanning for CMM inspection. Each workshop represented a stage from Renishaw’s Productive Process Pyramid; a framework to control variation within the factory.

MSP Commercial Director, Tony Brown commented: “Presenting NC-PerfectPart at the CTA/Renishaw event was hugely successful for MSP. The workshops provided a platform to demonstrate our award-winning technology to the Canadian Aerospace Industry. We immediately received a surge of interest from Canadian aerospace companies keen to explore the applications our system could solve. It is with gratitude to the CTA and Renishaw for supporting MSP in their collaboration with Advantage Mécanique Inc. to create a practical workshop.”

For more information on MSP and their products, visit http://www.metsoftpro.com/

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