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UK's largest turnkey CMM order placed
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LK product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Mar 24, 2003
Land Rover has ordered a turnkey facility comprising 14 car body co-ordinate measuring machines from LK and is believed to be the largest CMM order ever placed in the UK.
Land Rover has ordered a turnkey facility comprising 14 car body co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs) from British manufacturer, LK.
It is believed to be the largest CMM order ever placed in the UK.
The machines will be used in the Solihull car factory for quality control of future Land Rover models.
The latest contract follows installation last year (2002) of four LK CNC car body measuring machines for inspecting current Land Rover models.
It underlines the CMM manufacturer's dominance in the UK automotive industry, its position as metrology partner to Land Rover and the reputation enjoyed by LK for providing "class leading" technology and support.
Other companies within Ford Motor Company's Premier Automotive Group also use LK CMMs.
Four of the new measuring machines, designated HC-90, will be integrated into the body-in-white production line.
Off-line body-in-white inspection will benefit from the installation of HC-90 and LY-90 twin-column machines, as well as a quad-column version of the latter.
The trim and final inspection activities will be enhanced by another LY-90 twin-column model.
Included in the order is the provision of CAMIO STUDIO 2, the new version of LK's CAD-to-CMM software that allows inspection programs to be written (also contracted to LK) as soon as the relevant parts of the computer-aided design become available, well in advance of the first prototypes.
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