Renishaw changes its facilities to provide more services

Subsidiary of Renishaw in Spain, specialized in automation technology, has opened new facilities in Barcelona to have an exhibition space that allows to approach their products to customers and professionals in the sector of the machine tool. With 500 square meters, the new headquarters was opened with service-oriented customer at the same time seeking to consolidate its corporate identity.

Structured in several divisions, the central of Renishaw in Wotton Under Edge (United Kingdom), has been active since 1973. It designs, manufactures and supplies high quality metrology systems for dimensional measurements. Annually, constant investments in r & d and engineering costs account for approximately 14 per cent of the sales of the group.

Renishaw investment for development, has resulted in a wide range of probes of high-precision, accessories, measuring systems and other innovative products which have resulted in a significant advance in the knowledge of the technology of measurementensuring a quality guarantee in the industry around the world.

At the end of July we made the move, in August will assemble everything and are not now in phase of completion. In the previous local had facilities, but not so pronounced. We spent small machines and simulators, while here we have a spacious room of demonstrations.

In this way, the machines on which we will install our products will be similar to the end user. We understand that it is a matter of urgency in the domestic market has gradually increased the industrial culture, where in other markets more ancient, such as German, Swiss, Italian, for example, this concept already is a reality.

We now have a more comfortable structure, we have gone from three hundred to five hundred square metres. In addition, new facilities have very good communications and allow us to have its own identity as before, we were located in a business centre. There are also open the doors to the growth of the company, especially for the technical sector, which is where we need more personal daily. It must be borne in mind that many clients of medium and small companies do not have structures capable of updating or converting their machines and turn to us, we offer engineering.

Change we wanted it to do to try to have a structure most suitable to what are the needs of market. In the case of the probes for machine tool, every day grows the need to show our products in real applications, to the users of machine tool.

Another fundamental reason that has pushed us to take this decision, has been the situation of the market. Unfortunately we are to living a moment in which many companies are competitors to 20,000 km away with cheaper products, which forces to improve the productivity of the companies themselves. To offer a product with a level of technology superior must promote all the elements that may be technologically improving the finished product and at the same time improve the productivity of the own machine tool.

In this sense, every day will impose more, the need for a facility to do demonstrations, have some similar machines to have the client, in which it can be more physically that application that suits your needs.

We started in calle Aragón in Barcelona, where we were four years approximately. In 1994 we moved to the Business Park Mas Blau, located near the airport and the road network, but we are missing some identity and above all, have a space to show our product to customers.

Yes. For us it is essential to offer this type of service so that clients feel comfortable to know what are the benefits of the instruments that seek to acquire to equip their own machines and thus have direct contact.

In addition to the show room we plan to organize courses. We have a training room, because we think that it will not only be important to equip the machines but train technical staff is on site or in the technical Office.

We expect to organize open according to sectors, i.e., makes days the Conference to bring together manufacturers of machine tool or distributors or clients of a particular sector, such as footwear, aeronautical or automotive, for example to address that customers feel comfortable and identified.

We will have a machine of measurement in which we want to show all products of our Division specifically devoted to this type of sector. For example, put a machining center with changing tools, as well as an extensive exhibition of products as a machine of digitization (Cyclone), Laser interferometric, ballbar, products of calibration, etc. All of them working in real mode.

In principle, measuring machine is a very old three-dimensional because we want to show visitors that we can supply all products and components necessary for a "retrofit" or conversion of an old machine that, well used, can increase performance with the use of probes of the latest technology.

We want to demonstrate that sometimes it is not necessary to change a whole machine, but high quality services are available with a good "retrofit".

Ultimately, the show room to offer more services to our customers: manufacturers, distributors, end users. Although we prefer to call them "collaborators" because, from their needs, we develop products and applications aimed at solving the specific problems of each.

The final customer, the user's machine tool has the need to respond to your customer is who assigned to a particular piece. On occasions, to carry out a good production of the product is the need to implement a system of tubes in the machine tool and resort, either to the machine Builder or to us, and we we are able to offer you solutions both hardwaresoftware and production engineering.

This year we would like to carry out any presentation to specific sectors, despite having trade fair calendar in full, but we do not lack goodwill.

Our product star are probes for three-dimensional machine and machine tool. Implement a measurement probe on a machine is like giving the sense of touch. Allows you to change to, play, see the piece, verify that its State, its diameter and length are correct. The only limit of the probe is the imagination of the operator.

However, Renishaw produces not only probes. We have a specific Division for products of digitized, reverse engineering and reproduction. Other hand, deals with products such as the system calibration Laser interferometric, the Ballbar and laser rules. Our Division of encoder is responsible for all kinds of optical and magnetic encoder to control positioning linear, Rotary and flat.

The spectroscopy Division produces systems and elements of Raman spectroscopy. Probes and special accessories belong to another division.

It affects the productivity increase, mainly. It also provides security to the manufacturer because it allows to verify that all manufactured parts are correct, i.e. adding quality to the product.

The theory of measurement focuses every day to continuous measurement rather than the point to point, which is also a valid measurement. It is used by 80/90 per cent of the machines on the market, but we think that the continuous technique will enable us to achieve higher precision parameters.

For aeromotores and turbines: reactors and generators require a rigorous control of complex, sophisticated inspection and calibration of machine to need to do so.

Structures for aviation: aircraft manufacturers rely on

Renishaw to help them make pieces complex and large, according to standards traceable to the first.

Tooling / workshop: when it reproduces and works with reverse engineering of complex forms, tooling manufacturers, have systems of digitized of Renishaw.

Automotive: car manufacturers need speed and confidence in controls process of complex forms in the body.

Machining in general: Renishaw probes and products for the calibration of machines can help the manufacturer to reduce chip and increase productivity. heavy engineering: even the large components require tolerances which require machining precision and rigorous process controls.

Workshop / subcontractors: subcontractors today must deliver parts quickly and with quality assurance.

Renishaw development activities have generated, and they continue generating important patents that form the basis of current and future products. The Engineering Division of the Renishaw Group, provides technical support to the Group of manufacturing and the product divisions, in the fields of electronic engineering, engineering software, technical publication, test products and verification according to national and international standards, and calibration. This Division also operates the service of products tailored to meet the specific requirements of the client, which cannot be achieved by means of the standard range of products of Renishaw.