Precision manufacturing case studies
Our metrology products help manufacturers to maximise production output, significantly reduce the time taken to produce and inspect components, and keep their machines running reliably. In the fields of industrial automation and motion systems, our position measurement and calibration systems allow machine builders to manufacture highly accurate and reliable products.
Machine builders
Challenge: To deliver high-precision machine tools efficiently and on-time.
Find out moreChallenge: Increase the ease and speed of machine tool performance measurement.
Find out moreChallenge: Resolve the inefficiencies and inconsistencies being introduced by a range of traditional error measurement tools.
Find out moreChallenge: Measuring solutions reduce machine tool testing time by up to 6.5 hours.
Find out moreChallenge: Provide CNC machine operators with an easy-to-use human machine interface (HMI). Maintain global reputation for high quality CNC machine manufacture.
Find out moreChallenge: To reduce indexing errors in CNC rotary tables.
Find out moreChallenge: Manufacturers require co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs) that achieve high performance and stability.
Find out moreChallenge: Switching from processing stone materials to metals demands a significant increase in precision.
Find out moreChallenge: An absolute encoder solution required for a brand-new series of high-performance direct-drive rotary tables.
Find out moreChallenge: To replace a high-performance custom miniature encoder for the latest version of Renishaw’s 5-axis CMM measuring head.
Find out moreManufacturing with process control
Summary: An example of a machine shop applying innovative probing, tooling and workholding strategies to enable its turn-mill to machine castings complete.
Find out moreChallenge: To increase overall productivity, reduce turn around times and minimise human error.
Find out moreChallenge: To produce valves in the fluid power sector that are more efficient, sustainable and economical, to ultimately prevent the waste of millions of tonnes of CO2 per year.
Find out moreChallenge: Reacting to rapidly changing customer demand, which is becoming more complex and less predictable
Find out moreChallenge: Automate inspection processes and increase manufacturing capacity
Find out moreChallenge: Continuous improvement in part verification to address the demands of complex part designs.
Find out moreChallenge: Selecting a future-proof additive manufacturing system for flexible, high-quality end-use part production.
Find out moreChallenge: Eliminate inconsistent finish across batches of gears caused by manual deburring.
Find out moreChallenge: Inefficient and expensive process requires different instruments to measure individual parameters.
Find out moreChallenge: Maintain an accuracy of 15-20 microns and reduce non-productive time while machining aluminium die-castings.
Find out moreChallenge: Check the geometry of high-end machining centres before and after being transferred to new facility.
Find out moreChallenge: Reduce noise-induced positional errors would significantly improve tool performance.
Find out moreConsumer products
Challenge: To rapidly iterate designs to improve the handlebar performance of a new Olympic track bike and produce customised metal parts for individual athletes.
Find out moreChallenge: The fast and accurate machining of aluminium cookware castings with wide tolerances.
Find out moreChallenge: Transition from out-sourcing additive manufacturing to in-house production.
Find out moreChallenge: Increase productivity of existing injection moulding equipment.
Find out moreChallenge: To transition from out-sourcing additive manufacturing to gaining in-house capability. To streamline the finishing of high-end watch components.
Find out moreChallenge: To move from outsource to in-house production of vacuum cast juicer components.
Find out moreChallenge: A customised 2 wheel bike that matches the size and riding style of the rider.
Find out moreChallenge: Maximise machine up-time and to ensure consistent component precision.
Find out moreIndustrial automation
Challenge: Constant velocity control is essential for many advanced industrial processes, but traditional motor designs give rise to cogging forces which generate ripples in the motor velocity.
Find out moreChallenge: The rapid development of new technologies, such as AI and IoT, has challenged OEMs to develop new manufacturing equipment that caters for the latest advanced semiconductors.
Find out moreChallenge: A new family of advanced DDR motors required an absolute rotary encoder solution compatible with strict size constraints and demanding performance requirements.
Find out moreChallenge: JUSTEK required a range of custom encoder feedback solutions for its precision process equipment designed for the semiconductor and FPD industries.
Find out moreChallenge: Increase the overall competitiveness of the company’s products, including developing a precision-driven rotary table for the development of precision machinery.
Find out moreChallenge: An encoder than can be used even if the weather and local conditions are poor.
Find out moreMould & die
Challenge: To reduce the amount of time machine operators spend manually setting up workpieces, tools and probes.
Find out moreChallenge: Reduce part set-up times in the manufacture of injection-moulded parts.
Find out moreChallenge: Achieve an 85% reduction in the inspection time of injection moulded parts.
Find out moreMore application examples
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Case brief: High-volume manufacturing - increasing the yield of precision machined components
Case brief: High-volume manufacturing - increasing the yield of precision machined components
Generic case brief highlighting the production and process challenges faced by high volume manufacturing companies, how Renishaw systems helped overcome these challenges and the benefits of installing Renishaw systems.
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Case brief: Precision sub-contract engineering: process improvement through automatic tool setting
Case brief: Precision sub-contract engineering: process improvement through automatic tool setting
Case brief highlighting the challenges faced by a British sub-contractor (QEP) when producing a wide variety of products and how Renishaw systems helped overcome them.
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Case brief: Precision sub-contract engineering: process improvement through automatic part setting
Case brief: Precision sub-contract engineering: process improvement through automatic part setting
Case brief highlighting the challenges faced by a British sub-contractor (QEP) when producing a wide variety of products and how Renishaw systems helped overcome them.
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Case brief: Precision sub-contract engineering: increasing manufacturing efficiency through in-process control
Case brief: Precision sub-contract engineering: increasing manufacturing efficiency through in-process control
Case brief highlighting the challenges faced by a British sub-contractor (QEP) when producing a wide variety of products and how Renishaw systems helped overcome them.
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Case brief: Mould and die manufacturing: ensure optimum accuracy and consistency
Case brief: Mould and die manufacturing: ensure optimum accuracy and consistency
Case brief highlighting the challenges faced by an British end user (BK Tooling) when producing high quality mould tools and how Renishaw systems helped overcome them.
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Case brief: Mould and die manufacturing: reduce operator intervention and increase machine productivity
Case brief: Mould and die manufacturing: reduce operator intervention and increase machine productivity
Case brief highlighting the challenges faced by an British end user (BK Tooling) when producing high quality mould tools and how Renishaw systems helped overcome them.
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