It's hot. It's dirty. It's a through-feed production line and it's no place for a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). At least, not until now.
Introduced at Quality Expo Detroit in June, the CenterMax CMM from Carl Zeiss IMT Corp. (Minneapolis) is designed not just for the shop floor, but for the high-speed production line where most CMMs dare not go. While other CMM makers have offered machines dubbed shop-floor ready, the CenterMax combines features such as the patented temperature resistant frame and a new temperature accuracy specification that allows the CMM to be used as an inline production gage. The CMM can be placed in the production line and loaded from three sides.