Manufacturing operations as Chelmsford-based Currock Engineering, a 91-employee supplier of total solution packages to the global aerospace sector, are underpinned by its collection of Mitutoyo CMMs, a resource that has recently been bolstered by the arrival of a Mitutoyo Crysta-Apex S CNC CMM with a large XYZ capacity of 1200 x 2000 x 1000 mm.

Now installed and fully operational, the Crysta-Apex S CMM brings Currock’s Mitutoyo CMM count up to four machines. Although purchased primarily to accurately inspect the company’s larger components, the size of the machine’s granite bed also allows multiple smaller parts to be loaded and fully automatic, mass measuring routines to be performed. Currock is both ISO9001 and BS EN 9100 accredited, and is a signatory to the SC21 Action Plan.
Operations manager Mark Burrows says: “The speed and accuracy of our large capacity Crysta-Apex S CNC CMM has already made a significant contribution to our inspection function. As well as easily handling the largest of our parts, its ability to inspect multiple smaller components in a single set-up, in a rapid, automatic CNC mode, has considerably accelerated the throughput of work in our quality department.”
Given the speed of today’s high-yield machine tools and the sheer volume of parts they produce, ensuring that component inspection systems keep pace has never been more important. Add to this the ever increasing complexity of components and tighter dimensional tolerances being applied, and it is easy to understand that the performance of CMMs is being challenged as never before.
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