WD Hearn is now offering live demos of the Renishaw Equator on your Mass Produced Parts. If you would like us to visit your premises, please let us know and we will arrange a date and time. 

Renishaw Equator Gauging system

The Equator is a radical alternative to traditional dedicated gauging, filling a gap in the market never before addressed. The patented low-cost design, unique in construction and method of operation, is capable of high-speed comparative gauging for inspection of high-volume manufactured parts. It has been developed and proven on the shop-floor in collaboration with industry-leading companies in multiple industries and applications.

The Equator was been conceived and developed by working closely with automotive, aerospace and medical gauging users, alongside their manufacturing machines. The result is a lightweight, fast and highly repeatable gauge that operators can use with ‘push-button' simplicity. Equator can switch between parts in seconds, perfect for flexible manufacturing processes or accepting parts from multiple machines.

Faster and more repeatable:

Based on an easily scaleable and adaptable ‘parallel kinematic' structure, Equator's unique patented principle allows high speed scanning and rapid moves between features, while retaining stiffness that delivers impressive point to point repeatability, critical for accurate gauging.
Installation of an Equator is possible in minutes, and an operator can switch between gauging of different parts in seconds. Re-configuration of the gauging system to cater for part design changes, or to measure new parts, is possible in a fraction of the time taken with conventional custom gauging, using the comprehensive industry standard DMIS programming.

Specifications

Working volume                       X Y - 300mm / Z - 150mm
Comparison uncertainty            0.002mm
Maximum scanning speed        100mm/s
Maximum movement speed      500mm/s
Scanning rate                          1000 points/s
Scale resolution                       0.0002mm
Fixturing requirement                ± 1mm
Maximum power consumption   750W
Typical power consumption       110W