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Article: Workholding system boosts productivity: by adopting a new workholding system, a measuring systems manufacturer, specializing in high tolerance parts, has reduced run time from 10 stages and a 70 min. cycle time to just two stages and a 5 - 20 min. cycle time.(WORKHOLDING)
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- Modern Applications News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Micro-Vu Corporation (Windsor, CA) designs and manufactures a broad line of measuring machines including automated vision systems, manual video systems and optical comparators. These non-contact and contact systems use video and touch probe inputs to perform high precision 2D and 3D measurements.
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The company runs about 20 different high tolerance parts on its 3-axis machines. Jeremy Bardell, manufacturing engineer at Micro-Vu, describes one of these parts, "It is a block with flatness and parallelism called out to 25 microns (0.001"), and also has many features that have true position tolerances to other features." With the ...