Hexagon Metrology - Where quality comes together
 
 
Heavy Industry
A heavyweight player for a heavyweight industry. Traditional heavy industries operate on a scale of their own when it comes to size and weight. Construction, metal processing and defence industries place great emphasis on precision. The heavy loads carried by cranes, excavators, crawlers and metal components mean that their dimensions must be accurate to a fraction of a millimetre.

Whereas some measuring instruments capitulate in the face of a heavily soiled environment with large temperature fluctuations, the strength of Hexagon Metrology solutions shows through: absolute stability and measurement results that you can depend on. Anytime, anywhere.



 
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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DMR - Rostock
Flexible laser tracker system facilitates the processing of large cast and steel components

At the DMR Produktionsgesellschaft mbH in Rostock there blows a fresh wind: previously, traditional measuring methods which were used had limitations; success is now guaranteed with the Leica Absolute Tracker AT901 and Leica T-Probe. Now when the component can‘t get to the CMM, the CMM will go to the component. ...

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PES – Hinckley
Portable metrology for large scale installations and alignments

PES (UK) Ltd provides high quality engineered products and materials to global industries, along with specialist installation and design services. Operating in fields such as construction, formula 1, engineering, aerospace, printing, energy (onshore & offshore), automotive, rail, scientific and defence industries since 1979. As ...

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Lakber - Lakuntza
Leica Absolute Tracker AT901 for inspection of large-volume wind energy components

In industry sectors where work pieces are large and heavy, mobility is everything for a measurement system. When accuracy and easy handling are the other functional requirements, there is no way around a portable CMM. Spanish machining company Lakber came to this conclusion and uses a high-end Leica Absolute Tracker AT901 and a Leica ...

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Silbitz Guss
Foundry finds competitive edge with Laser Tracker system from Leica Geosystems

The portable measuring system in use at Silbitz Guss is an all-round performer: it can scan, take tactile measurements, mark the parts and automatically connect the Laser Tracker to handheld devices. To the benefit of the foundry‘s ...

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Burkhardt+Weber - Reutlingen
Gigantically flexible, gigantically accurate: 3D coordinate metrology in machine tool manufacture

The south of Germany regularly surpasses other German states in relation to patent applications. The first NC-controlled machining centre was also invented in the south of the Republic. Together with an American concern, Burkhardt+Weber in Reutlingen created this novelty in the 50s. The competence of Burkhardt+Weber these days is in the ...

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AfM Technology / Stahlwerk Augustfehn
XL crown gear precisely forged thanks to Leica Absolute Tracker AT901

Stahlwerk Augustfehn has manufactured a crown wheel with a diameter of 12.7 m. A Leica Absolute Tracker AT901 and the knowhow of metrology specialists at AfM Technology GmbH Ost ensured that measurements taken during production were always highly ...

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HGG Profiling Equipment - Middenmeer
Leica Absolute Tracker AT901 monitors cutting of wind turbine tripods

On behalf of a customer, Dutch company HGG developed a new type of bevel cutting system which has an integrated Leica Absolute Tracker AT901 with Absolute Interferometer. The tracker continuously monitors the cutting process. Using the measured data, the machine cuts 60 m long, 400 t tubes into individual sections – to accuracies of a fraction of ...

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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. „Therefore the ...

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ST Kinetics - Singapore
Wireless probing prevents reworking, automates report generation

Singapore Technologies Kinetics (ST Kinetics) is the land systems and specialty vehicles arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering). It is one of Asia’s leading defense and specialty vehicles companies, with a strong portfolio of products and services for the defense, homeland security and commercial markets. Its capabilities ...

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Caterpillar - Peoria
Seeking the Holy Grail: Full-Size Dynamic Model of Giant Excavator

Virtual prototyping has long been the holy grail for enterprises looking to streamline their product development cycle. Using physical prototypes to test new concepts and improvements can cost manufacturers millions of dollars for downstream testing and prototype production. A virtual prototype is essentially an exact 3D digital replica of a ...

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GH Cranes - Beasain
Industrias Electromecánicas GH performs dimensional control of crane bridges with the portable Leica TDM5005 Industrial Total Station

Industrias Electromecánicas GH, leading manufacturers of crane bridges with a wide range of products, are located in Beasain, north of Spain. The Leica TDM5005 Industrial Total Station measurement system is used for fast, large scale and high precision dimensional ...

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Meccanica Ponte Chiese - Brescia
Automation to the nth Power

Automatic factory, unmanned manufacturing cycles, FMS, AGV… In the ‘80s, these used to be the favourite talking-points in the industrial world. The companies looked at a future with plants in which only a few people in white coats controlled machines and robots working, producing, and transferring every kind of components or finished products. ...

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