Quality Solutions for Machine Tools

Name: Quality Solutions for Machine Tools
Brand: ZEISS

Machine tools

Production machinery focuses on industrial equipment like cutting, milling, and injection molding machines. Precision in machine components is a traditional challenge. The shift from combustion engines to sustainable products, like e-mobility, demands new manufacturing technologies. This requires high-precision metrology solutions and advanced materials to ensure stability and adaptability for diverse products, and digitalization serves as a transformative force in this context, enhancing productivity by integrating smart technologies that optimize manufacturing processes and improve precision in production machinery.

CNC milling machine cutting aluminum workpiece, creating metal chips during precision manufacturing for quality inspection with ZEISS metrology.

Cutting & milling

Cutting and milling machine builders face metrology challenges affecting precision and performance. Key issues include component accuracy, complex geometries, thermal stability, tool wear, vibration, system integration, and compliance with standards. Adapting to new materials and technologies is essential for improving machine quality.

Aluminum automotive castings and machined transmission housing components for dimensional inspection with ZEISS metrology.

Casting & injection molding

Machine builders of injection molding and casting machines face quality assurance challenges that affect precision and performance. Key issues include managing complex geometries with CMMs, assessing material variability with x-ray CTs, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Adapting to new technologies is essential. Advanced metrology solutions enhance machine quality and competitiveness.

CNC machining center milling metal workpiece with coolant spray and chips flying, preparing parts for ZEISS cmm quality inspection.

Eroding machines

Eroding machine builders face challenges in precision measurement, material analysis, thermal effects, tool wear, surface finish evaluation, system integration, and regulatory compliance. Addressing these with advanced solutions ensures machine quality and competitiveness in manufacturing complex geometries and hard materials.

Quality assurance for machinery manufacturing

Optimizing manufacturing processes to improve efficiency

Blueline with solutions for every step of the production

Design & prototyping

Challenges

Machine components must meet strict requirements for vibrational and deformational stability in addition to dimensional specifications
The choice of component material is crucial, affecting deformation behavior, stability, wear, and aging

Your benefits with ZEISS

The ARAMIS system precisely measures deformation under stress, allowing comprehensive analysis of component mechanical properties
ZEISS microscopes enable detailed analysis of material composition and residues, essential for selecting suitable materials for machine design

3D Testing

Microscopy systems
Manufacturing & assembly

Challenges

Machine components must meet strict dimensional specifications for precision and long-term wear stability or vibration reduction, particularly in spindles
Surface damage like scratches or defects on machine components and parts requires thorough investigation of the root cause

Your benefits with ZEISS

ZEISS CMM solutions provide exceptional precision in dimensional control, merging efficiency with adaptability
ZEISS microscopes deliver critical failure analysis and insights, essential for eliminating defects and failures

Coordinate measuring machines

Microscopy systems
Tool making

Challenges

Complex cutting tools with a steel core and diamond coating necessitate a stable interface to prevent wear and failure
Injection mold fabrication demands precise adjustments for accurate product dimensions, like medical implants

Your benefits with ZEISS

ZEISS Crossbeam captures high-resolution images of the steel-diamond interface to enhance understanding of its stability
ZEISS X-ray machines scan implants to assess dimensions, and tool correction computes mold adjustments

Microscopy systems

X-ray and tool correction
Installation & acceptance

Challenges

Tool acceptance requires verifying machine performance through the dimensional accuracy of components
Tool acceptance requires verifying machine performance via part dimensions

Your benefits with ZEISS

CMM technology can accurately verify the dimensions of manufactured metal components
ZEISS X-ray machines excel in measuring the dimensions of manufactured plastic parts and medical implants

Coordinate measuring machines

X-ray
Operations

Challenges

Continuous tooling monitoring requires adjusting forms or developing new ones
To ensure optimal performance, machine components should be replaced or upgraded

Your benefits with ZEISS

ZEISS tool correction facilitates precise adjustments and enhancements
ZEISS reverse engineering generates component drawings from measurement data

Tool correction

Re-engineering

Machine components in production machinery

Bearings

A comprehensive range of bearings with tight specifications in dimensions and forms. From small to large, offering precise and flexible solutions to meet diverse requirements.
Spindles

Measuring spindle dimensions poses technical challenges due to their critical role in machinery and the precision needed for proper function. Accurate measurement ensures optimal performance in lathes, milling machines, and rotating equipment.
Shafts

Analyzing shafts, key components in mechanical systems, introduces technical challenges. Ensuring precision and tolerance is vital to prevent misalignment and wear. Length, straightness, complex geometries, surface finish, and material properties require sophisticated evaluation methods.
Gears

Measuring gears presents technical challenges due to their complex geometries and precision requirements. Accurate measurement of tooth profiles, tolerances, surface finish, and material properties is essential for optimal gear function and longevity.
Holder, clamping, chuck

Holder, clamping, and chuck systems require standardized designs for consistent precision. Accurate alignment and secure gripping are essential to ensure stability and reliability in machining operations.
Valves

Evaluating valves involves technical challenges due to complex designs and tight tolerances. Precise assessment of geometries, sealing surfaces, and material properties is crucial for ensuring reliable fluid flow control and performance.
Pumps

Examining pumps presents technical challenges due to their intricate designs and stringent precision requirements. Accurate measurement of geometries, tolerances, surface finishes, and material properties is crucial for optimal fluid movement and pressure regulation.
Tool / form

Electrical Discharge Machining, is crucial for creating precise mold forms. It allows for preset configurations, ensuring accuracy in production. This technology enhances efficiency and reduces material waste.
Housing

Evaluating housings in production machines presents technical challenges due to their vital role in functionality and performance. Precise dimensions are crucial for spindle, gearbox, hydraulic cylinder, control unit, pump, bearing, and valve housings to ensure proper alignment, sealing, and efficient operation.