Case study: Renishaw and Hartford combine to deliver intelligent, ‘smart factory’ solutions (docx)

Established in 1965, Hartford is Taiwan’s biggest exporter of CNC machining centres as well as being the country’s largest machining centre manufacturer. It is recognised as one of the CNC machining industry’s leading global brands with a reputation for technological advancement. In the face of global skills shortages and rapidly emerging Industry 4.0 trends, Taiwanese CNC machine manufacturer Hartford undertook to develop an innovative, easier-to-use human machine interface (HMI) for its CNC machines. At the same time the company strived to ensure process measurement and inspection at its CNC machine manufacturing operations could keep pace with everheightening product quality goals.