Case Study: Bearing Company Turns to Optical Inspection
Manual inspections of precision bearings took 45 minutes to inspect and 45 minutes to set up two years ago. Today, with a multisensor optical coordinate measuring machine (CMM), the same job can be done in less than seven minutes.
Rexnord Bearing Corp. (Downers Grove, IL) previously used manual gages and custom fixture gages. One of Rexnord Bearing's specialties is the manufacture of precision bearing components for the aerospace industry. Because of the critical nature of these parts, Rexnord had to do 100% inspection. This process was time consuming and had become a major bottleneck in their manufacturing process.