Production/Purchasing

• Understand your machines' true capabilities, choosing the right machine for each job.
• Achieve manufacturing tolerances, reducing or avoiding scrap, rework and time-consuming set up and inspection processes.
• Evaluate new machines prior to purchase.
• Evaluate after installation, before final sign-off.

Maintenance

• Identify problems quickly; no need to strip down machines just to see if something is wrong.
• Evaluate repair strategies and their results before you start.
• Implement predictive maintenance programs by regularly tracking a machine's performance.
• Minimise specialist “call outs” and check that contractors have fixed the problem before they leave.

Field Service

• All the benefits as for “Maintenance” plus ..
• Reduced warranty costs due to improved diagnosis.
• Increased service team productivity due to reduced time on site (due to quicker diagnosis).
• Increased customer satisfaction, test reports provide tangible proof of service.

Quality

• Comply with standards for quality management (eg ISO 9000).
• Equipment calibrations traceable to national standards.
• Ensure equipment meets recognised standards before shipment (machine tool OEMs).
• Incorporate QC20 ballbar tests into your QA system.

Accuracy and dynamic performance

Linear measurement accuracy is an assured ±0.5 ppm thanks to a precision stabilised laser source and accurate environmental compensation. Readings can be taken at up to 50 kHz, with a maximum linear measurement speed of 4 m/s and a linear resolution of 1 nm, even at maximum speed. All measurement options (not just linear) are based on interferometric measurements, giving confidence in the accuracy of the data recorded.

Ease of use

The XL-80 is quick and easy to set-up and use, reducing waiting time and increasing available measurement time, whilst still retaining the accuracy benefits of a pure interferometry based system.

Both the laser and compensator connect to a PC via USB so there is no separate interface required and no complicated set-up to worry about.

Portability

The size of the XL-80 laser and XC-80 compensator means that a complete linear system can fit into a ‘wheelie-case' and weighs only 12 kg. Add the tripod, in its own fabric case and you have a truly portable solution to machine metrology.