At IMTEX 2023 Metal Cutting Exhibition, Renishaw showcased their latest innovations in industrial metrology and precision measurement. With a lot of footfall at their booth and visitors taking keen interest in knowing about their solutions, the exhibition was a success for Renishaw team.
Renishaw is a renowned company when it comes to measurement solutions for metrology applicable in multiple sectors and industries. The IMTEX 2023, organized by Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA) at the Bengaluru International Exhibition Centre from 19th to 25th of January 2023, provided great opportunities to almost 1000 exhibitors to showcase their technologies, products, and solutions best-suited for the metal cutting industry.
Visitors to the Renishaw witnessed many advancements at their stall. Everyone got a chance to see industry-first, blue laser technology, and improved optics. Renishaw’s NC4+ Blue system deliver significant improvements in tool measurement accuracy, ensuring components can be machined more accurately and efficiently, through intermediate machining operations, to quality verification. The exhibition provided a clear insight into the full range of solutions that Renishaw offers to the manufacturers.
The Machine Maker team held a Real-Time Broadcast at the Renishaw stall B103 hall 3A and interacted with the team to know more about their advancements in metrology and other precision requirements. Paul Weaver, Director of Sales & Marketing at Renishaw India guided us through all the range of products and provided insightful knowledge and applications regarding their technologies.
Innovations on display included the FORTiS, an enclosed optical linear absolute encoder series which is ideal for use in harsher environments such as machine tools and other industrial machinery. This is the first enclosed optical linear absolute encoder by Renishaw; earlier they used to manufacture an open encoder. With the handheld probe solution, customers can quickly and easily pair the probes with a smartphone and enable quick changeover, as earlier the process used to consume a lot of time. With this solution, accuracy and battery life is increased along with much better communication.
The RUP1 probe, showing for the first time in the IMTEX2023, is a single-sided ultrasonic thickness measurement solution for use with the REVO® 5-axis multi-sensor system for coordinate measuring machines (CMMs). This technology is used in ultrasonic tanks and it is a very expensive and time-consuming process for measurement, as they bring the live measurement directly into the CMM and measure the thickness of the components with this ultrasonic probe. They have got many configurations and this particular configuration will be used in the aerospace industry for precision measurement.
The software is developed in a better way so that the operator can easily do the programming, the user interface is easy to understand and use, the data will be sent to the machine quickly and the cycle of measuring components can start without any down time.
Another highlight at the stall from Renishaw was their high-speed spindle encoders, these magnetic encoders are directly linked with the machines, and can fit in any standard spindle providing opportunity to Indian manufacturers in the machine tool sector.
One of the technologies that was very well established solution and also stole the spotlight was the Equator Gauge. The benefit of equator gauge is to enable flexibility to the shop floor, the technology is faster than traditional CMM methods, although CMM has its own place for qualification, and the customers today want to bring solutions to the shop floor near to the machines. Also on display was Renishaw’s new ACS-1, a machine tool probe calibration device aiming to make calibration more consistent, accurate and easier compared to traditional manual methods.
