CMM Inspection
Product Overview
Today’s mulit-axis NC machines are able to produce parts that have become quite complex. The ability to manage the dimensional aspect of these parts has introduced new measurement technologies yet many manufacturers are dusting off older CMM inspection machines to get the most out of their investments. They’re turning to inspection programming and simulation software from Tecnomatix to make sure they can leverage these investments and increase the productivity of their scarce resources.
Tecnomatix CMM Inspection enables you to generate complete, verifiable CAD-based machine inspection programs for Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs) and NC machine tools quickly and accurately without prior programming knowledge. It virtually eliminates trial and error in the programming of inspection machines.
CMM Inspection enables you to generate complex inspection programs for machines and perform quick and accurate analysis by comparing inspected data with specified design features and tolerances. The software uses nominal CAD geometry to generate, optimize, verify and execute off-line inspection programs for CMMs and NC machine tools. CMM Inspection enables you to interpret component and assembly tolerances defined by engineering that can be used during programming for the identification of critical features and analysis of inspection results.
Key Capabilities and Benefits
Capabilities
- Direct use of CAD model data with no translation required
- Full support of the master model concept
- Generate inspection programs in DMIS format
- Automatic feature and path update in case of geometry changes
- Analyses of inspected data quickly and accurately
- Familiar, easy-to-learn and -use CAD environment
- Easy-to-use macro language facilitates user customization
Benefits
- Reduce time-to-generate programs by as much as 75%
- Increase CMM efficiency by up to 25
- Reduce tooling costs by 20%-50%
- Eliminate time-to-translate geometry with no loss of accuracy, saving up to 8 hours per model
- Reduce off-line reprogramming time up to 90% with automatic update
