With its advantages of high accuracy, high flexibility, and digitization, CMMs have become an important means of quality assurance in the mold industry.
China is the center of the manufacturing industry and a big country in mold manufacturing. For many years, mold manufacturing has flourished, especially in private mold enterprises. They generally have advanced equipment resources, relatively advanced technology applications, and new technologies can be widely and rapidly applied in the industry. From design and manufacturing to related material production, heat treatment, etc., an industrial chain is formed, with prominent integration advantages. However, at present, the quality problems of hardware mold enterprises are prominent, and there is a significant shortage of high-precision and high-quality product quality in the market.
Quality is not produced but detected. Only through the use of advanced measurement technology and equipment throughout mold design, processing, acceptance, and later repair can high standards for mold production be achieved. In mold manufacturing enterprises, measurement is an important link throughout the entire design, production, and inspection process. Traditional manual measurements using simple measuring tools are difficult to ensure product accuracy and efficiency, and can affect results due to personnel or operating habits.
How to improve product measurement and evaluation standards to ensure that products meet design requirements has become an urgent issue for many mold manufacturing enterprises. CMM is a rapidly developing method for evaluating product geometric metrics in recent years. CMMs can replace various surface measurement tools and expensive combination gauges, reduce the time required for complex measurement tasks from hours to minutes, and quickly and accurately evaluate dimensional data, providing operators with useful information about the status of the production process.
Measuring Equipment Co., Ltd. is a major manufacturer of coordinate measuring machines in China. Its bridge and gantry coordinate measuring machines are widely used in mold, automotive, aviation, and other industries. CMM can automatically measure mold workpiece. As long as the workpiece is placed on the workbench, the measurement program (AC-DMIS special measurement software) can be automatically run to easily, accurately, and efficiently measure data and workpiece information, achieve comparison with workpiece design drawings, and output graphic reports. At the same time, the use of different CMM probes (line laser scanning probes) can achieve strong reverse engineering capabilities and achieve rapid and accurate acquisition of three-dimensional data and geometric features of the workpiece surface, which is significant for mold design, sample replication, and repair of damaged molds.
