Rohde & Schwarz - Teisnach
On the same wavelength: The Rohde & Schwarz factory at Teisnach opts for one software for all 3D measuring devices.

Rohde & Schwarz supplies mechanical components and complete systems for radio and transmitter technology. Their portfolio ranges from small switches used in satellites to radio sets for military aircraft through to mobile transmitter stations for radio and TV. In terms of quality assurance, the company relies on a whole range of measuring ...

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Gonzales - Estrabin
Inspection and auto-inspection with the ROMER Absolute Arm

Four buildings covering a total surface area of 20,000 m², four assembly halls each measuring 1,200 m² sitting on a site covering 35,000 m²... The Gonzales group, founded in 1971, has forged a solid reputation through its know-how, flexibility and reactivity as well as the quality of the services it provides. A designer and ...

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Mevi Group - Helmond
How to start serial production safely

For the companies in the Eindhoven region in Holland it goes without saying that they have their own clean room. That also applies to Mevi, a company specialising in processes, prototype and test series. For its quality assurance, the family-owned company swears by its Leitz PMM-C 8.10.6 made by Hexagon Metrology. Mevi is a think tank and factory ...

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Stein-Moser - Bischofshofen
Under high pressure: Stein-Moser adjusts waterjet cutting system using laser tracker

Quality is everything at waterjet cutting machine manufacturer Stein-Moser. Therefore a highly efficient Leica Absolute Tracker is used during the assembly and checking of the machines. Handling pressure is part of everyday working life in Bischofshofen, Austria. Stein-Moser GmbH, which started life as a stonemasonry business, is now a leading ...

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Talleres de Guernica
Laser tracker-based inspection of machine tool components

When a customer of Talleres de Guernica’s asked for a precision chuck with 7 m diameter, the Spanish machine tool company designed a manufacturing process based on permanent quality control. With the Leica Absolute Tracker AT401, new business opened ...

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VMC – Vicenza
Fluid Compression Technologies

The air surrounding us was imperceptible but always present, captured and compressed by high-precision hightechnology mechanical devices that generate powerful concentrated efficient effective ...

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PRODINTEC - Gijón
Technology foundation ensures quality with ROMER Absolute Arm

Industry in the north-western Spanish province of Asturias has a public source of knowledge at its disposal. To keep the region competitive, the foundation-owned private company PRODINTEC ( www.prodintec.com ) consults local businesses in novel design, management and manufacturing means. A ROMER Absolute Arm with integrated laser scanner is the ...

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Hitega Präzisionsmechanik - Gangkofen
Watertight records

Precise, compact and somewhat special. The perfect description of a Hitega product. The company from Gangkofen in Lower Bavaria has established itself as a precision engineering service provider. Various optical, tactile and multisensor measuring systems are essential to the success of the Hitega team. Not without good reason, the company has ...

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Matrix - Schio
Quality and Speed Hand in Hand

What is behind a few hundreds euros worth of punching tool which is however a key component for the machining of millions of stamped parts? Material technology, expertise, quality, accuracy, logistics, fast delivery. High-end manufacturers of these very special tools are four in Italy, little over twenty worldwide, and they are all committed to a ...

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REDEX ANDANTEX - Ferrières
When high-precision mechanical quality rhymes with Hexagon Metrology CMM

Specialising in the design, production and distribution of high-tech power transmission systems, REDEX is led by a team of topflight engineers and makes every effort to optimise the technologies used, both in designing and manufacturing the products. REDEX ANDANTEX is a genuinely international company with employees hailing from around the world ...

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Kaeser Kompressoren - Gera
Leitz 3D measuring machines ensure premium rotary blower quality and efficiency

Blower air is a highly versatile energy source and is essential for water treatment applications and the conveying of dry bulk goods, for example. To ensure that rotary blowers from Kaeser Kompressoren are able to deliver over- and under-pressure dependably and efficiently over the long-term, all components such as rotors, casings and timing gears ...

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SFS intec - Heerbrugg
Versatile use of the Leitz PMM-C Ultra with small precision parts

In the production halls articles are pressed, turned, ground and rolled. Hammering and clattering fills every nook and cranny. Thousands of small parts are tumbling into their assigned bins. At first glance the picture is deceptive: diversity rules here. Swiss concern SFS intec concentrates on the design and manufacture of customer-specific ...

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Fette - Schwarzenbek
Fette measures tablet press components automatically with Leitz PMM-F

Wide, flat countryside, gigantic wind turbines, bright redbrick houses – so characteristic of the far north of Germany. To industry experts however, the region is also associated with the manufacture of tablet presses. Fette, based in Schwarzenbek, Schleswig-Holstein, has years of experience as a master of this art. Fette tablet presses are used ...

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Donzé-Baume - Les Breuleux
The dream of a perfect timepiece: Coordinate metrology makes it possible

The Swiss Jura has long been regarded as the cradle of clock- and watch making. Since the upheaval of the industry in the 1980s, companies operating at the cheaper end of the market have gradually turned to the Far East. Suppliers of luxury brands of traditional clocks and watches have remained true to the Jura. They form the regular clientele of ...

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Reishauer - Wallisellen
Leitz CMMs have been ensuring the accuracy of gear grinding machines for decades

When Renato Righes speaks about his work as QS Engineer at Reishauer AG in Wallisellen (Switzerland), you can sense that every decimal place of a micrometer reading counts in this company. For only if the accuracy of the Reishauer gear grinding machines is guaranteed to the last detail can the gear wheels ground on these machines perform their job ...

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Otto Junker - Simmerath
Leica Geosystems Laser Tracker simplifies the inspection of large castings

Otto Junker simplifies measuring processes at its stainless steel foundry with a Leica Geosystems Laser Tracker. The high quality of the machined parts speaks for itself due to the measuring accuracies achieved.  When viewed from the outside, the interior of the stainless steel foundry at Otto Junker GmbH appears to be pitch-black. ...

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ABB Robotics - Västerås
Lifelong Absolute Accuracy for Industrial Robots

High speed tracking is one of the most stringent requirements for robot control, machine guidance and Metrology Assisted Assembly. Robot calibration, accuracy improvement of drilling machines or automation of wingto-body assembly are just some examples of machine control applications of Leica Geosystems Laser ...

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NOI-Rotortechnik - Nordhausen
Stringent Demands for Boosting the Efficiency of Wind Power Plants

Three-dimensional measurement and analysis of rotor blades and their production facility are highly complex and demanding measuring tasks. The nature and scope represent an entirely new dimension in this branch of industry. Consequently, such a task can be coped only by using ultra-modern measuring systems and a correctly prepared measurement ...

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ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) - Paranal
The ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile

Since February 2001, mankind has been opening a new eye into the universe: with the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT provides researchers with extremely sharp images – achievable due to the very high positioning accuracy of all elements of this new observatory. To reach these targets, technology from Leica Geosystems was used. The European ...

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Heller - Nürtingen
Measuring with Accuracy. No Compromise.

With 110 years of history, 2,200 employees throughout the world, a line of products spanning milling machines for camshafts and crankshafts, machining centers, services to the customers that go beyond the mere technical support: Gebr. Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH in Nürtingen, in the south of Germany, provides project management covering the ...

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Precitrame - Switzerland
Precision Jewels

We are in French Switzerland, in the Jura mountains, which is a short distance from the French border. Little villages, farms, and natural views are in abundance here, however it seems that time has stood still. Appearances though, can prove to be deceptive. On closer inspection you can see that time goes by here too - it has a peculiar meaning ...

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