VMT GmbH / Projects / Industrial Measurement Systems

TBM - Gear control / Faido / Switzerland

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Tunnel project:

Laser Tracker
Tunnelling
Tunnel boring machine -Inspection of a gear
Herrenknecht AG
Gotthard - Basistunnel

The gear seat of a tunnel boring machine must be checked. The inspection comprised the squareness from engine axis to a reference plane.
Request for accuracy: ± 0,10 mm

Packaging / Weinheim / Germany

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Packaging Industry
Reverse Engineering
Sirona Dental Systems GmbH

Digitalizing polystyrene packaging to determine CAD data.
A point cloud was generated and a triangular grid model calculated. This was taken for the calculation of volumes and CAD derivations.

Moulds and Segments / Efringen-Kirchen / Germany

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Laser Tracker
Segment production
Geometric control
Wayss & Freytag
Katzenberg

3D dimensional control of moulds and concrete segments during the production process

Moulds / Taipei / Taiwan

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Segment production
Dimensional control of segment moulds
Bilfinger Berger AG - BCEG

Shen Chang Steel Industry
Metro Beijing

3D dimensional control of segment moulds during manufacture

Moulds and Segments / London / Great Britain

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Laser Tracker
Segment production
Dimensional control of concrete segments and steel moulds

Stratford Segment Plant
Channel Tunnel Rail Link 220 & 240

3D dimensional control of concrete segments and steel moulds during the production process
To optimize the measurements the segments were placed in stacks of three and four of these stacks were prepared. Thus 24 segments could be measured in six hours.

Training and services / Shanghai / China

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Tunnel project:

Laser Tracker
Tunnelling
System sales, adjustment, training
SMSC
Chong Ming

Sales laser tracker system for measuring 3D-dimensional control of moulds and segments.
Adjustment of the evaluation programs on local geometry and training of the personnel.

Moulds / Durban / South Africa

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Mobile Digital Photogrammetry (DPS)
Moulds Production
Geometric control
HJT Ingenieurbüro GmbH

HochTief Construction AG
Durban Harbour Tunnel

3D dimensional control of moulds for tunnelling

Gearbox casing / Piedimulera / Italy

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Machine construction
Geometric control
Hatebur
Nugo Romano

Geometric control several surfaces of a base for a chipless cutting machine.
Squareness, distances between the surfaces and by treatment false forms developed were controlled.

Ground Frame / Tlmace / Slovakia

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Tunnel project:

Laser Tracker
Machine construction
Geometric control
Herrenknecht AG

SES
Pajares

3D dimensional control of ground frame of a tunnel drilling machine
Checked are: centre of bearing, sealing ring, pinion of bearing and connector
Request for accuracy: ± 0,1 – 0,05 mm

Printing press / Kopenhagen / Denmark

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Machine construction
Measurement of flatness
König & Bauer AG

To place over surely that in the case of transport of a printing machine no damage developed, flatness and parallelism were controlled as well as the vertical adjustment.

Measurement of flatness / Bern / Neuenegg / Switzerland

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Machine construction
Measurement of flatness
Stoppani AG

Measurement of flatness for rector bottom and top forward and after compensation

Transport container / Drulingen / France

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Machine construction
Geometric control
Sotralenz Metal Industries

Geometric control of half shell for transport container - 9m long
The inspection comprised evenness of contact surfaces - at stretched and relaxed status and different positions

Ship's propellers / Herzberg/Harz / Germany

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Laser Tracker
Foundry
Geometric control
Pleissner Guss GmbH

Geometric control of propeller vanes and Kaplan blades for turbine manufacturing against the reference model (CAD).
Transmission of axles and incipient cracks on the respective objects.
Documentation the results of measurement with consideration of the respective tolerances in Colour Mappings.

Interieurs / Rastatt / Deutschland

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Measuring arm
Car Industry
Primary control
Johnson Controls GmbH

Measuring service with personal rent - primary control for several mounting parts and apparatuses with a measuring arm

Membrane / Schwanau /Germany

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Mobil Digital Photogrammetry (DPS)
Development
Deformation control
Herrenknecht AG
Mainline railway tunnel Berlin

Photogrammetric deformation control on a membrane
The membrane with a diameter of 7.85m is used for equalization of pressure during the breakthrough of the tunnel boring machine at the end of the drive. The membrane substitutes the using of nitrogen for icing in the destination shaft.

Production facility / Vitoria / Spain

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Car manufacture
Geometric control
of production
facilities
TMS Aritex Cading

Mercedes Espana

Measuring and adjusting a new car production facility.
Absolute measurements were taken against CAD data.
Relative measurements were taken for the calibration of the robots.

Glider shape / Bruchsal / Germany

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Laser Tracker
Aerospace
Digitalizing a
glider fuselage
DG Flugzeugbau

Sections and surfaces on a glider fuselage were measured.
The fuselage was produced handmade with 2D data. To generate 3D CAD data a digitalization was necessary. Future developments could be created easily with this data.

Airbus A340 / Frankfurt a. M. / Germany

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Aerospace
Dimensional control of an Airbus A340
L3 Communications

Surveying of surfaces, profiles, sections and single points to determine the actual size of the aircraft.
These data were used to plan the modifications on the Airbus A340.

Boeing 737 / Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates

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Laser Tracker
Aerospace
Dimensional control
L3-Communication

Surveying of, profiles, sections and single points to determine the actual size of the aircraft
The Results are 3D datas. These datas were used to plan the modifications on the Boeing 737

SKN Steel construction / Schwäbisch-Gmünd / Germany

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Laser Tracker
Facilities
Measurement and set out
Frimotec

Accurate 3D-Measurement of a SKN steel construction at the original location.
After the disassembly mapping of the drilling layout and alignment of the construction at a new location.
Accuracy: ± 0,05 mm

Test facility / Reutlingen / Germany

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Mobile Digital Photogrammetry (DPS)
Facilities
Calibration of a intrinsic test facility
Bosch GmbH

Calibration of an intrinsic test facility
The 3D coordinates from the retro reflective point were measured with an accuracy ±0,05 mm
The Analysis were funded by bundle adjustment of IMetric software

Engineering / Balzers / Switzerland

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Laser Tracker
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Geometric control of vacuum furnace
Unaxis Balzers AG

Geometric control of vacuum furnace for the coating of flat screens.
Proof of the evennesses / warping the furnace inner surfaces at different temperatures (to approx. 300 °C), as well as the parallelism of individual halves to each other.

Roller coaster / Waldkirch / Germany

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Laser Tracker
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Measuring concept
Mack GmbH

Rail track measuring and production of a measuring concept for the examination of roller coasters segments.
The measuring concept covers the range the supply of the statements up to the finished trail segment from measurement-technical view.