Group Engineering
Whilst the design of new products is performed by the Products Divisions, Group Engineering supports them with a range of engineering services that are used in each development project. The software group offers specialist support and training, undertakes software development projects and promotes software re-use.
The electronics group supports the product designers by providing specialist design resource, designer training, the latest PCB assembly technologies, in-circuit testing techniques and a database of electronic components.
The laboratory services team monitors product regulatory compliance, provides design testing advice, testing resource and supplies design test equipment. Recent investments include an accelerated stress-testing chamber to provide reliability testing under rapid temperature cycling and random vibrations.
The early stages of product development require the evaluation of numerous competing ideas. Renishaw has made a substantial investment in rapid prototyping facilities, enabling faster testing of concepts produced using selective laser sintering and fused deposition modelling techniques.
Rapid prototyping
Other in-house capabilities include rapid prototyping of PCBs, injection moulding and vacuum casting of plastic parts – all aiming to speed up design lead times.
The Group also conducts specialist research into noncartesian systems for new markets such as dental scanning and is working closely with Renishaw's partner company, PulseTeq, improving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to provide enhanced medical metrology.
Renishaw also maintains close relationships with many other research establishments and has small teams located close to Heriot-Watt (Edinburgh) and Exeter universities.
