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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2018
Renishaw Plc, Wotton-under-Edge, GB;
Kevyn Barry Jonas, Clevedon, GB;
RENISHAW PLC, Wotton-under-Edge, GB;
Abstract
A method of producing a workpiece which is successively loaded onto two or more machine tools and one or more machining operations are performed to produce one or more features of the workpiece on each machine tool. After the machining operations on both or all of the machine tools, the workpiece is passed to a common dimensional inspection station. At the common dimensional inspection station, dimensions of the features of the workpiece produced by the machining operations on the two or more machine tools are measured. Based on the results of measuring the dimensions of the features, two or more output signals are produced which respectively relate to the performance of the two or more machine tools which performed the machining operations. Each of the output signals is fed back to the machine tool which performed the respective operation, to adjust the production process of each corresponding machine tool.