*talking*
Hey measuringhero, Jay here. I'm here talking to Rolf who is the product
manager for horizontal arm machines and we're talking about different ways to
measure big stuff.
Rolf. Hi Jay.
My first question is we've seen some big gantry
seems these look totally different. Why do they look so different?
We have to look closer to the application what we attack here these CMMS are mainly
designed for automotive industry to measure a huge body in wide systems and
the need is that we can measure above the roof inside the body, the roof area,
we can measure the underbody from the top so we have to measure inside the
body, above the body but we have to measure the underbody of the car as well.
And this is only possible with that design.
Ok, so these were really made to
go inside and underneath a car.
Wow. these look a little different
than some of the ones I've seen, they have some interesting design differences.
Any reason why some of these... can tell us a little bit about these? Yes, we wanted to
optimize the relation between stiffness and weight of the CMMS because weight is
a very critical factor in the safety of the machines. So we had to drop down the
weight but we had to keep this the stiffness because the stiffness
defines the repeatability and the accuracy of the machines.
It's a cool-looking wedged design. I've also noticed that we have some optical
sensors on these back here is that something - a trend that you've seen with
the use of these machines? Yes!
There is a huge trend to optimize the
measuring performance of the machine and to optimize the application so
traditionally with this type of CMMS we did measure tactile elements like bores,
edge points or single surface points but nowadays we want to measure the the
features very fast but we have to measure complete areas as well and this
is only possible with an optical scanner, so that we can measure complete areas, we
can extract the position and the diameter of the features but we can do a
CAD compare of the complete areas as well. So a full CAD comparison of this.
I also notice there's two of these. Can these work simultaneously?
Typically both of the arms are working on the same work piece so they are
optimized that there's no crash or things like this. But they do it
simultaneously and they report the complete results into the same measuring report.
So the the operator or the guy who who needs the report knows exactly
how big is the component and at the end we are talking about one single
measuring report, not two. Perfect, perfect. And I guess for me: are there any trends
that you've seen in this type of with this type of measuring that that are
really - you've seen that most customers are asking for - something important?
Yeah. Especially there's a there's a big trend away from the OEMs itself.
They try to move the parts to the first-years
but they are first forced to provide the measuring reports to the OEMs as well so
they have to measure very fast, very precise and with the same report
structure and into the same database as the OEM. And therefore the first years they
need the same equipment as the aware himself okay see great can we can we see
one work? Go an have a look at one? Yes, of course!
Rolf, thank you for showing me the machine and for the wonderful
conversation really appreciated. You're welcome
All right thanks. Take care. And for you: thanks for joining us and we'll see you next Thursday!