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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.



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

Stahlwerk Augustfehn has manufactured a crown wheel with a diameter of 12.7 m. A Leica Absolute Tracker 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 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 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 a ...

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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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