 | Equator™ case storiesUsers on shop floors have shown that integrating Equator into production processes can dramatically reduce costs, automate shop floor processes, and improve efficiency. Aero-engine component maker Meyer Tool "softens" up hard gauge costs with software-driven Equator™ gauge
In its pre-launch application, one Renishaw Equator gauge has eliminated at least four costly hard gauges in a new work cell. “And that's just the beginning of the impact the company anticipates for its inventory of custom hard gauges, which can cost up to $20,000 each to design, build and maintain,” according to Beau Easton, Quality Manager at the company, “down the line, design changes can add another $3,000 - $10,000 to re-configure and qualify an existing gauge”. "Equator could reduce waiting time to zero, it can gauge difficult features and the price is very competitive."
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A software-driven comparative gauge, Renishaw's new Equator system, is already starting to soften up the cost for numerous hard gauges at aero-engine component maker Meyer Tool, Cincinnati, OH. Meyer Tool designs, builds, and maintains dozens of these costly tools every year for in-process measurement.
Eponsa, a manufacturer of automotive components located near Barcelona, Spain, has purchased a versatile and innovative shop-floor comparative gauge, the new Renishaw Equator, to check the quality of stamped parts and assemblies. This will reduce non-productive waiting times to a fraction of the time taken now, while maintaining the high quality and manufacturing efficiencies that are critical for the success of an automotive subcontractor. Other advantages for Eponsa are that Equator can scan the form of part features with its SP25 probe and change styli with the stylus change rack, included as standard, to check a large variety of parts.
