Coordinate Measuring Machines
Video-supported Learning Program




Format: VHS Video, Instructor and Participant Print Materials
Approximate Completion Time: 8-10 Hours
Item - TC-11                                                                                                               Price: $1,975.00

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The operator is the most important part of your CMM. A small investment in operator training will maximize productivity, increase the return on your substantial equipment investment and allow you to use this sophisticated machinery to your best competitive advantage. This practical program begins with an easily grasped explanation of how a CMM works, includes step-by-step visual demonstrations and provides a series of hands-on exercises in measuring practice parts which are included in the program materials.


Target Audience

  • Operators
  • Others who need to understand coordinate metrology and basic CMM operation

Topics

  • Introduction to Coordinate Measuring Machines
  • Basic Operation
  • Demonstration of Measuring Techniques
  • Practice Exercises

Program Details

Unit 1: Introduction to CMMs

  • Benefits of CMMs
  • Basic components and operating principles
  • Alignment of part and machine coordinates
  • Cartesian and polar coordinate systems
  • Geometric elements
  • SPC and CAD use with CMMs

Unit 2: Basic Operation

  • Manual and direct computer control CMMs
  • Planning a measurement - probes, qualification, maintenance

Unit 3: Demonstration of Measuring Techniques

  • Distance
  • Perpendicularity
  • Straightness
  • Flatness
  • Angle
  • Parallelism
  • Roundness
  • Concentricity

Unit 4: Practice Exercises

  • Geometric elements
  • Qualification (single and multiple tip)
  • Distance, straightness, 2D angle
  • Alignment, circle
  • 3D angle, parallelism, distance
  • Alignment, slot length, angle, hole location, cone

What's Included

  • 4 Videotapes
  • 1 Instructor's Guide
  • 1 Application Guide
  • 2 Model Parts and Drawings
  • 1 Diagnostic Test and Answer Book
  • 2 Albums

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