1. Understanding your machine capability
NC-Checker
Understanding your machine capability

2. MSP – Advanced manufacturing experts
Aerospace
Blade MRO
Part setup time reduction
Wing rib processes
Part tooling cost reduction
Engine blade processes
Complex part setup
F35 assembly production line
Eurofighter Typhoon production line
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3. MSP – Advanced manufacturing experts
Composites
Distortion issues solved
Counterbore depth solved
Surface offset issues solved
Part setup cost reduction
Overall alignment solved
Machine issues solved
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4. MSP – Advanced manufacturing experts
Metrology
Day to day machine capability
Pain-free 5-axis probing
Machine geometric performance
Make your probe investment work
Machine to machine comparison
Ensure controller results consistent
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5. What is NC-Checker? A benchmark system for:-
Monitoring machine tool capability
Preventative maintenance
Enforcing part quality
Discovering machine geometry errors
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6. Why is help needed with machine geometry errors?
They take you too long to fix
They are too hard to identify
Lack of monitoring tools for operators
Unknown cost of error investigations
Cost of constant monitoring using experts
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7. NC-Checker requirements
Probing installed and working
Calibration sphere(s) available
Machine PC to run NC-Checker
A day of machine time
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8. What does NC-Checker do?
Provides world class 5-axis calibration
Checks 5-axis probe performance
Checks 5-axis probe repeatability
Checks rotary performance (head/table)
Check probe load & unload
Macro validation
20 more checks if necessary
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9. What does NC-Checker do?
Runs on a PC connected to controller
Designed for operators to use
Simple push button GUI
Go/No-Go results
Complex reports and a simple summary
Archived reports for detailed analysis
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10. NC-Checker benchmark results explained
Quality metric for easy assessment
Upper tolerance for check
Current value for check
Lower tolerance for check
Nominal line represents 100% quality machine
Characteristic signature for simple comparison
Clear colour-coded results boxes
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11. NC-Checker advantages
Instant visual assessment
Benchmark wheel gives you an
easy to understand visual report
Higher part quality
Reduced machine geometry errors
means reduced part errors
Simple Go/No-Go operation
Designed for operators, trained
in a day, makes it easy to run
Uniform part quality
Converging geometric performance
means converging part accuracy
Predictive maintenance
See the trend, plan for maintenance,
avoid costly emergency call-outs
Day to day machine capability
Daily benchmark allows geometric
performance monitoring before cutting
Fully traceable archive
The history of every check, all the
data detail and the benchmarks
Machine to machine capability
Do your machines perform identically?
Find out why not and where
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12. Justification I: Benchmark with trends
Predictive maintenance
Fewer emergency call-outs
Machine kept in production
and in tolerance for part
Archived reports for traceability
Reduced skill level needed to produce capability report
Daily/Weekly/Monthly
Spot trend to failure
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13. Justification II: Before and after service
See problems early, before
major damage
Help service engineer identify problems
Check problems are fixed,
while engineer still on site
Auto-send to service company
for remote monitoring
Before service
After service
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14. NC-Checker summary Improved part quality Means less rework, scrap and
concessions and a better value
proposition for your customers
Reduced machine downtime
Pinpoint errors faster, only take machine down for investigation,
or maintenance, when necessary
Uniform part quality
Errors in the process due to the
machine are minimised, reducing
errors in the part
Improved health and safety
Operators need to enter machine
less often, NC-Checker is automatic
and operates doors closed
Uniform machine performance
Machine to machine variation is
minimised, increasing part quality
as part to part variation minimised
Day to day capability
Part of any continuous improvement
program – checking the stability of
your machines
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15. Justification III: Machine variation = part variation
Show machines have same,
or different, signatures
Remove errors from the process by aligning machine signatures
Similar machines usually
have similar errors – use history to help diagnose
Machine #1
Machine #2
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16. Justification IV: The need for maintenance
After an “event” does the machine need maintenance?
Reduce need to take machine
down for investigations
Confidence, if the benchmark says the machine is ok
– it is ok
Show the nature of any damage graphically
Before maintenance
After maintenance
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17. NC-Checker awards Chairman's award 2006 – Eurofighter Foreplane
Chairman's award 2009 – F35 IPP Heatshield
Chairman's GOLD award 2013 – F35 Nozzle bay door
Powers entire Eurofighter production
Powers entire F35 assembly production line
Powers entire F35 composites production
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18. NC-Checker awards
“Can I say that I am very pleased with the quality of service MSP has provided during the installation process. I am not exaggerating when I say it has been one of the easiest in my entire career.” Triumph Group (United Kingdom) “We are extremely pleased with the solution Renishaw & MSP have provided and we are experiencing a 60% improvement on the quality of parts coming off the machine. This is a game changer for us and we are very pleased.” B/E Aerospace (United Kingdom)
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19. Contact
metrology software products ltd 6f, greensfield court, alnwick, northumberland, ne66 2de t: +44 (0) e: w:
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