Why Not Lights-Out Inspection?
A contract shop in Connecticut is developing a process to enable its new CMM to inspect multiple parts unattended, thereby minimizing the impact that part measurement has on the company’s bottom line.
PDQ is working toward developing a lights-out approach to CMM inspection, leveraging CMM and quick-change fixturing technologies to enable unattended measurement of multiple parts.
A number of shops have implemented lights-out machining processes to enable machine tools to run unattended overnight or during the day.
What about lights-out CMM inspection?
Read this article to learn about the unattended measurement process one shop is developing to realize that goal.
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