All,
Is there an easy way to find out what tips we use in a certain directory? Then I can do an analysis of that and find out what tips I can remove or at least take off the calibration.
I recently picked up PC-DMIS programming after a lengthy background in programming for CNC manufacturing. We doubled our capabilities by adding another CMM.
I have worked through a lot of the older methods we used to try to update them as we can. Right now we're moving to external manual alignments. I'm looking to add a disc probe or two. Slow but steady improvement with a lot of the things I find people are doing on these forums and various other forums. So I thank everyone for the wealth of knowledge this forum has.
The next step is our calibration program. We don't run more than 5 of one unique parts at a time and normally no more than 1 unique part at a time. So calibration before each run is not efficient.
Over the last 10-12 years the calibration program we run Saturday night while the plant is closed Sunday has got to be 22-24 hours worth of tips. Now with two machines we don't want to calibrate them at the same time to prevent both being down by an unexpected issue during calibration.
Consolidating these tips and lessening the calibration time would greatly improve our flexibility.
-Rich P
Process Designer
Tactair Fluid Controls Inc.
Liverpool, NY 13088
