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News Release from: Blum Novotest | Subject: Machine tool spindle probe
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 April 2002
Spindle probe matches latest M-C speeds
Setting up and measurement of a part are an essential part of production, but are non-productive idle time, and until now could not be completed at the cutting speed of the machine.
Setting up and measurement of a part are an essential part of production, but are non-productive idle time, and until now could not be completed at the cutting speed of the machine To significantly reduce the time spent, Blum Novotest is launching a new state-of-the-art spindle probe at MACH 2002, designed to work with the new, fast machining centres without having to adjust machine speeds
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new probe will dramatically reduce current probing time on machining centres: the company believe it to be one of the fastest probes on the market.
Machine technology is such that feed rates of 3m/min and rapid traverses of 2G are common.
Probe technology has not until now kept up with this, resulting in probes that deflect during use, giving false readings unless the machine speed is slowed down to accommodate the probe's requirements.
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Combining NDT and probing assures integrity
By combining crack detection and physical measurement within one operation, Blum - Novotest can offer its customers considerable reductions in the overhead cost of quality assurance.
To overcome this, Blum has built on its thirty plus years of probe design and manufacture to create a probe which functions on even the fastest of machining centres without any need to adjust the machine to accommodate the probe.
The new probe has a maximum velocity of 2G and a maximum measuring speed of 3m/min.
Repeatability is +/-1micron even at feeds of 3m/min.
Signal generation is based on an opto-electronic system, giving minimum wear and maximum precision.
The new spindle probe is operated by a standard 9 volt lithium battery, easily changed by the user.
Up to 100,000 triggering contacts are possible per battery.
In order to assist its existing customers take advantage of the new probe, Blum are offering to exchange any of its existing spindle probes for the new Top Speed CNC probe for a 30% less than list price of the new probe.
The new probe will be demonstrated on the Blum Novotest as part of the company's range of laser measuring and tool management systems, which is designed, developed, and manufactured at the company's headquarters in Ravensburg, Germany, and has been created to increase productivity and minimise the scrap associated with ineffective tool management and inaccurate dimensional control.
The range includes the LaserControl tool management system, the laser operated Blum tool presetting system, the Laser Micrometer, the Blum Bore Gauge and the recently launched Probe Z Nano.
The LaserControl tool management system and laser operated tool presetter will be demonstrated on the new Bridgeport VMC 600.
(This was Manufacturingtalk's Top Story on 3 April 2002).
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