hey #measuringhero, Jay here. Today we thought it would be fun to show you the making of a METROTOM 1.
In order to do that we came all the way to Braunschweig to bring you to the inside of GOM.
Let's go have a look.
Hey Jay! Wow Felix, look at this place it's great. Glad to have you here.
Yeah, thanks for welcoming us to your beautiful home here.
Welcome to the GOM headquarters braunschweig. Someone whispered me that you are mainly interested
in seeing the production area where the METROTOM 1 is being built right?
I really want to see how you guys build one of those. Okay, should we walk directly in? Let's do it! Okay, perfect let's go.
Jay we are now leaving the administration building the main building and directly entering
the production area and yeah you will directly recognize it so this is more or less like a assembly area right?
So we have huge development departments for design, hardware, electrical
and software development but this is now the area where yeah I would say the magic assembly happens
right so you can see final testing over there on the left hand side the area where our
handheld manual scanners are being assembled. Okay, okay! And you can see where the
supervisors are being located. Okay. Yeah to keep an eye on the - exactly!
Yeah this is our final testing area on the right hand side yeah with air conditioning against here
we do even use our own automated solution to do the acceptance test right for the sensor. Yeah, yeah.
You make quality equipment you might as well. I mean this is very important to us right,
every single sensor or even the CTs are being tested here right, before they're leaving the the factory
that's very important to us. Absolutely, absolutely.
And now we are directly in the area where this METROTOM 1 is being built.
and you can already see we have now three METROTOM 1 over there
and yeah let's just have a quick look at one right. Okay.
Jay here we are, the area where a new METROTOM 1 is born. Giving birth, yeah yeah it's really cool.
yeah as you can see, right. So this is very much a raw housing currently, you can see it's quite
empty the big maintenance doors open to have like a good access and also on the downside this
is the area where those main components are being assembled in. That's basically the first step, right.
The first step to the whole thing so the big blocks if you - power supply, electronics,
high power, generator, cooling unit, so the main, really the main components right.
and so here you take the raw frame and really just kind of put the main blocks in them and these are pre-assembled
and pre-wired it looks like some pretty intense wiring happening on this panel. Exactly.
all gets put in there even the lead the lead protection. All happens - exactly and then
within the next step once the main components are in then we need like to finalize the
the wires to place some safety switches, so like minor steps right. Important but minor steps.
But you get, so you give power to it. And we can finally switch to power right
make sure everything works. Exactly! Then can we see what happens after that?
and after that one yes, we will have in a third stage I would call it okay this is like the final step. Okay all right.
Hey this one, this one looks ready. Almost almost, close to be ready. Close to be shipped
to its final location so this is like the very last step right but one of the most important ones
so this is where we, you know, check the system and do finally the acceptance test
by using this artifact right. Okay! So this is like a CMM calibrated artifact so we know the
distance of each of those spheres and we can check the system accuracy. So you test before
any of these go out the door, you test. We have to right. Of course you do. We want to have the
machine in a perfect shape at the customer's side. Absolutely, so once this check is done
it's verified, it's ready to go to its home. It's ready to go. We can box it in like it's wooden box
and then it just go via sea or via air. Right, it's crazy. You know it's really wonderful to see
the facility, the location, the fact that these are handcrafted kind of together. It's really
really impressive to see, appreciate it, so. I guess this is what you wanted to see right? Absolutely
I have to see one more thing because last time we were together Philipp made me promise to come
visit him if I was ever in Braunschweig to come visit him. Then you better do this right!
can you quick take me over. yeah for sure. Let's go do it, all right.
hey Jay yeah, one second what about giving Philipp a small challenge
what kind of challenge I don't know scanning some random stuff
okay, what are you thinking? Whatever you want, I mean how about this flowers?
Should we try? Yes, he might hate me but. He's gonna be mad at you. All right let's grab one.
Okay let's go, let's see. He will be super happy.
Here we are. hey Philipp, look I have a special guest for you. Hey Phillipp it's good to see you.
hey Jay, what are you doing here? Felix was just showing me production of the METROTOM
and I told him I wanted to come in and see you. Great to see you again. It's really wonderful to
see you here in Braunschweig, we actually came up with a challenge for you and now Felix is gone so
here's the challenge. Flower? We want you to scan and measure this flower is this possible?
Sure we can try it right. Let's give it a try. Allright, first we need a fixture, right so
okay, let's put it in.
maybe like that right. Nice fixture. okay let's see if that works. Okay so, we put it in.
Boy you know you told me that it was that simple. Is it really that simple? It's still that simple
even with a flower, you see. Yeah looks great. Looks quite nice right.
you can see like all the details on here. Wow that's crazy. Pretty, beautiful flower. I didn't believe that you could
do it thanks for accepting the challenge. Easier than it sound, right. yeah, I promise next
time I come visit you, Phillipp I will not bring any more challenges. I trust you on that one.
it's good to see you again, we'll see you soon next time. Hopefully, it was a pleasure.
Thank you, for welcoming us into your home, sure. It's beautiful, it's quite beautiful
and for you out there, we hope you enjoyed a small snapshot of GOM here in Braunschweig
don't forget to stay safe and stay healthy and we'll see you next thursday.