RPI delivers rotary tables to leading CMM manufacturers
RPI UK has successfully supplied four top of the range rotary tables to world-leading coordinate measuring machine manufacturer Nikon Metrology and another major CMM manufacturer. Castle-Donnington-based Nikon Metrology took delivery of two RPI rotary tables measuring ø400mm and ø600mm. Whilst the other major CMM manufacturer received two ø400mm rotary tables.
RPI’s rotary tables will now be integrated into both companies' CMM machines, in order to help measure symmetrical/ prismatic components such as rotor discs.
As well as significantly improving overall measurement accuracy and reducing uncertainty in CMM machines, rotary tables also greatly increase a CMM machine’s available measuring volume thereby providing greater flexibility in what can be measured.
Jim Palmer, sales manager at RPI, said: “We are delighted we’ve successfully supplied CMM rotary tables to two of the world’s leading CMM manufacturers. RPI’s rotary tables bring significant benefits to CMM machines and will help end users save money, time and resources by reducing set-up and process times, thereby greatly improving productivity.”
RPI has been supplying Nikon Metrology with rotary tables since 1982 and has sold the company more than 245 rotary tables.
Matt Brady at Nikon Metrology UK Ltd, said: “We’ve been fitting RPI’s rotary tables to our CMM machines for decades and as far as we are concerned, RPI deliver a fantastic product with excellent back up. If you want precision and accuracy, they’re the ones to go to.”
RPI’s rotary tables have been specifically designed as a fourth axis for all types of precision CMM machines and they are accurate to +/- 0.5 arcs seconds. This is equivalent to hitting a golf ball at a hole more than 22km away and scoring a hole in one every time.
Bath-based RPI has a very large share of the market in CMMs which use rotary tables and can boast more than 500 successful installations worldwide.
RPI grew out of acquisitions from Optical Measuring Tools, Airmatic, Horstmannn and Eimeldingen. Since the 1950s, it has been one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of precision rotary tables and a leading supplier of rotary tables to the aerospace, automotive, power generation, machine tool, scientific and general engineering industries.