BBInfinite takes its quality control seriously because without ensuring there are no part-size miscalculations, the company would be out of business, CEO Wes Wolfenbarger says.
That is why its Verisurf mapping software program that runs with its Renishaw Equator 300 gaging system is so valuable to the business. The software increases the accuracy of the probe’s tolerance measurement on the thin-walled aluminum tube machined by the shop. He explains the probes, that look like spider legs surrounding a part being measured, touch the part while calculating its dimensions. It enables the shop to know how to adjust offsets to hold a size. And when a part needs to be scrapped, BBInfinite recycles the material.
The Renishaw Equator 300 gaging system programmed with Verisurf software at BBInfinite.
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