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News Release from: Renishaw | Subject: Laser calibration system upgrades
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 August 2006
Laser calibration system upgrades on
offer
Renishaw's Calibration Products Division is offering present users of its ML10 laser calibration systems free upgrade to the latest version of its Laser 10 software package.
Renishaw's Calibration Products Division is offering present users of its ML10 laser calibration systems free upgrade to the latest version of its Laser 10 software package The Laser 10.06 Windows software is standard-priced at $895 for upgrades, but ML10 users simply need to complete an on-line request form to receive the free package
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ML10 laser interferometer calibration system is widely used by OEMs and end-users in research, design, manufacturing and maintenance applications in fields ranging from machine tools, CMMs, motion control, and aerospace manufacturing to semiconductor processing, flat panel display production and biotech assay machines.
Earliest models are now about 17 years old, says Clive Warren, Business Manager-Calibration Products.
"Mechanically, the systems can still operate just fine," he notes, "but user software can be generations old.
We get calls from customers who want to move up to latest and greatest PCs, but find the original software is incompatible.
Other users may just not be aware of the benefits that the latest software can offer.
We're offering the free software to minimize customers' problems, let them access the advantages of Windows operating systems, and streamline our support for users with obsolete software." Early versions of the ML10 software were DOS-based, limiting users to keyboard commands.
The Laser10.06 software gives them the advantages of point-and-click mouse operation, while offering backward compatibility for keyboard commands, said Warren.
Created for WindowsXP, the Laser 10.06 software can be used with both notebook and desktop computers.
The software allows users the capability of both static and dynamic data capture (where hardware supports this) and provides data analysis for national and international CMM and machine tool testing standards.
Users with WindowsXP PCs can add Renishaw's optional new QuickView software package that makes ML10 lasers even more flexible and powerful tools by displaying continuous "streaming" data from the laser interferometer as a live oscilloscope type display on the PC screen.
QuickView allows engineers to study minute variations in linear or angular displacement, velocity or acceleration.
Simple point and measure operation avoids the need for predefined measurement targets and sequences.
The real-time analysis of motion and positional characteristics can provide critical insight to machine developers and builders as well as engineering, research and academic institutions.
The newest version of the ML10, the ML10 Gold Standard laser interferometer system, provides linear position resolution down to 1 nm, range of up to 80 m and accuracy of +/-0.7 ppm over the full environmental operating range (0deg-40C).
That versatility enables calibration of both large and small motion systems with state-of-the-art precision. Request a free brochure from Renishaw ...
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