Using the mini and medium class coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) from Hexagon Metrology you can measure small and medium-size parts three-dimensionally without having to sacrifice performance and accuracy. Quickly create part programs directly from CAD models.

Profit from increased quality and process improvement with the aid of these stationary coordinate measuring machines. CMMs in this class are appropriate for measuring tasks in nearly every industry where accuracy, repeatable results and automated measuring of dimensions is required.
Whether you are looking for an entry-level model or already have experience with coordinate measurement systems and are now looking to improve quality assurance or increase inspection capacity - we have the products and expertise you require.

The largest stationary gantry- and bridge-type 3D coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) from Hexagon Metrology will give you gargantuan performance. It is not just the capacity of these giants of the world of coordinate measuring systems that leaves all others in the shade: they also impress with robust materials, a stable structure and high accuracy - on the production floor, in a production cell or in the measuring room. The CMMs can act as a standalone system or as a station in a production cell.

The strengths are particularly apparent when they are used for three-dimensional measurements for large components and assemblies in the aerospace industry, defense, ship building and in the power generation industry. If you want to measure a large item with high performance, you will be making the right choice with these coordinate measuring machines.

Shop floor conditions may suggest that accurate measurement results on the factory floor would be impossible to obtain. However, using specialized shop floor hardened coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) from Hexagon Metrology, measurement accuracy is ensured even in the production environment. Ideal for lean manufacturing and cellular layouts, automated inspection is possible right at the point of production. Specialized software interfaces allow even unskilled operators to inspect parts with point-and-click ease.

Products in this class maintain high accuracy over large temperature ranges. Thanks to special shop floor features and automatic temperature compensation, performance is not degraded by harsh environmental conditions in production, such as vibration and dirt.

Outstanding price-performance ratio, flexibility and the highest quality – gauges and hand tools are the simplest and most widely used products in Hexagon Metrology’s industrial metrology offering.
Calipers, thread gages, bore and height measuring devices are suitable for countless applications in the metrology laboratory or on the production floor, often in combination with mechanical instruments or stationary machines. Length and angle standards are indispensable for the calibration of measuring equipment.

Traditional mechanical and electronic precision measuring gauges provide portability, extended service life and large variety of measuring ranges.
Hexagon Metrology hand tools are known round the world for quality, dependability and workmanship. We’ve been making hand measuring tools for well over 150 years.

Cost-efficient measurement with absolute reliability – industrial theodolites and laser stations meet the highest standards even under tough conditions. The extreme measurement volume of over 500 m makes a total station the first choice for the inspection and assembly of very large components.

Industrial theodolites have long since been the standard in the optical compensation of satellites and navigation systems and head-up displays in aircraft. Open-system architecture makes the development of user-specific software a convenient option. The non-contact autocollimation function provides industrial theodolites from Hexagon Metrology with a legendary degree of precision.

Laser scanners play a key role in quality assurance. 3D digital capture of shapes and surfaces using lasers is an effortless and precise process. The industry uses laser scanners primarily for the quality control of geometries and surface, but also for reverse engineering, fit and finish, and assembly applications.

A 3D scanner can be quickly and easily attached like a probe to a measuring arm or can work to the highest accuracy as a part of a Laser Tracker System or fixed coordinate measuring machine. Software generates 3D data in real time from the scanner-created point cloud and recognizes deviations from the CAD data immediately.
Non-contact scanners accurately capture millions of points within seconds. The resulting point cloud can then be used to create a CAD model to reproduce, redesign, inspect or archive the part.

A long-term standard in industrial metrology: Laser Tracker Systems lead the field in terms of the accuracy, reliability and durability of portable coordinate measuring machines. Modern Laser Trackers from the Hexagon Metrology product portfolio can achieve an accuracy of 10 μm at a distance of 80 m.

Expansion or automation of the system with hand-guided scanners, wireless probes or robot applications open up an enormous number of possible applications. The effect: rapid and highly accurate measurements fed directly into production leading to cost savings and quality improvements.

Machine tool probing solutions from Hexagon Metrology measure workpieces on milling machines, machining centers, lathes, turning/milling machines, grinding machines, special machines and robots. Both in small businesses and in middle or large-scale production, workpieces are not only aligned, but geometries are inspected while still on the machine.

These machine tool probes facilitate daily work, reduce manufacturing time and costs and increase the possibilities of modern machines. Probe types include Infrared touch probes, radio touch probes and tool setters along with the necessary software and applications support.

With its milling systems Hexagon Metrology is entering the world of industrial design studios. Fast milling and drilling of soft materials is possible with automated modeling systems, used especially in the styling and research centers of automotive manufacturers. Suitable materials for milling with these systems include clay and resin.

Flexibility is the key issue for multisensor technology. Flexibility in the world of metrology means having the freedom of choice between contact and optical measurement – with only one measuring system. A single system is therefore sufficient for the contact and optical measurement of all inspection features on a workpiece.

For the measurement of materials sensitive to the touch, the solution is optical measuring systems. They measure non-destructively and accurately. Thanks to a versatile range of optical measuring systems, we have the right solution for every measuring task.

Flexibility is the key issue for multisensor technology. Flexibility in the world of metrology means having the freedom of choice between contact and optical measurement – with only one measuring system. A single system is therefore sufficient for the contact and optical measurement of all inspection features on a workpiece.

For the measurement of materials sensitive to the touch, the solution is optical measuring systems. They measure non-destructively and accurately. Thanks to a versatile range of optical measuring systems, we have the right solution for every measuring task.

Portable measuring arms allow you to take measurements directly in the manufacturing environment, where process improvements are the most beneficial. No long installation times, simplicity of operation and ever-reliable 3D measurements: articulated arms which can be equipped with different length probes and scan heads to measure even difficult-to-access points either optically or by touch.

The attractive price-performance of these portable coordinate measuring machines when compared with CAD data or reverse engineering techniques means they are finding use in a wide range of industries.

Hexagon Metrology offers matching probing systems and styli for all portable and stationary measuring systems, including probing for machine tools.
For coordinate measuring machines the range is a complete offering of touch probes, manual and motorized probe heads, analogue scanning probes, change racks, extensions and styli.

For portable systems Hexagon Metrology offers a wide range of interchangeable probes including hard probes, touch probes, infrared tube probes, laser line scanner systems and machine control sensors all designed to make the most difficult portable measuring tasks easier.
The machine tool probe systems deliver on-machine dimensional inspection capabilities for CNC machines.

Hexagon Metrology has a cost-efficient solution for non-contact precision measurement of tubes bent through angles of up to 180°. Infrared and laser technology are compatible with all measuring arms manufactured by Hexagon Metrology.

Special highlight: if a deviation from the original fabrication data is detected, the bending machine can be corrected automatically over the network.

White Light Scanner Systems are comprehensive 3D optical measurement solutions, focused on improving engineering and manufacturing processes in automotive and other manufacturing industries. 3 Dimensional Measurement is an increasingly significant strategy which allows manufacturing organizations to accelerate product introductions, reach higher product quality, reduce production costs and bring about higher profits for each product.

The Hexagon Metrology solution offers a common language and tools for gathering, communicating and analyzing dimensional measurement information - linking between the different facilities and communities involved in launching a new product.

Hexagon Metrology is the largest software developer in the metrology industry and offers a wide range of in-house developed, individually customizable software packages that deliver intelligent and effective acquisition, analysis, management and presentation of collected data.

Hexagon Metrology produces the world’s most popular dimensional metrology software package, which offers many modules beyond its core offering for CMMs and will interface to vision machines, portable measuring arms, laser trackers, CNC machines, as well as devices that are “non-Hexagon Metrology” brands. Specialty packages for measurement of gears, blades and other specialized geometry are also available.
Third party software partners provide additional specialized software packages for some Hexagon Metrology devices, as a complement to our in-house product offering.

Airbus Military - San Pablo
On completion of the assembly the A400M comes to a last testing station where more then 600 functional tests are carried out. The final control will result in a special station where 50 to 100 points will be measured.

The tender’s objectives of EADS A400M assembly project was simple: to find a flexible, automated, simple and quick solution to measure the whole spatial geometry of the airplane!

They finally go for the Leica Geosystems laser tracker which reached the best available accuracy and repeatability.

Eurocopter - Donauwoerth
“We do not only produce helicopters, we are also the main supplier for the Airbus industry, in particular for the A-380”. “Our employees have to cope with a huge work and maintenance turnover with regard to the manufacture of doors and doorways for the Airbus assembly operations. These problems can only be solved in a goaloriented way with a flexible measurement system such as the Leica Geosystems Laser Tracker.” (Says Mr Grosskopf: from Eurocopter)

Voith Turbo - Munich
In Garching two DEA Scirocco measuring machines, each with a measurement range of 1000 x 1500 x 900 mm, are used in the measuring room close to the production lines to inspect parts produced for gearboxes. A further DEA Scirocco 10.15.9 is available for the retarder and damper production lines. The team in the measuring room works a three-shift pattern to provide support to production with initial samples, intermediate checks and special inspections such as component audits. Form and position tolerances of disc carriers, planet-gear carriers or housings are examples of the inspected parameters. The usual tolerances here are of the order of a few hundredths of a millimetre.

Microns in industrial metrology mean hundredths of a second in Formula 1. Precision and reliability are what matters in both fields. In this elite class of motor sport, manufacturing tolerances are not a matter for discussion – any deviation from the specified values could cost a race victory, lose valuable points or ultimately the world championship title. The Austrian owned, UK based Red Bull Racing Team relies on Hexagon Metrology as an Innovation partner. The Leica Absolute Tracker AT901 and the Leica T-Probe are generating lots of enthusiasm at the Milton Keynes factory.

Robert Bosch GmbH - Gerlingen
Robert Bosch GmbH has been playing in the league of exceptional calibration laboratories certified by the German Calibration Service (DKD) for more than 25 years. Over this time, the central calibration laboratory at the company‘s headquarters in Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe has risen to become an internationally renowned institution. A premier-class laboratory naturally requires equipment of the highest quality. This equipment includes the Leitz PMM-C Infinity 12.10.7 and Leitz PMM-C Ultra 12.10.7 3D coordinate measuring machines.

Hansgrohe - Schiltach
In Turkey they relax in a hammam. The Japanese freshen up in an ofuro. In lifestyle magazines it is increasingly considered as an individual wellness oasis - we are of course talking about the bathroom. For over 100 years, Hansgrohe AG have made their contribution all over the world to the bathing culture with taps, mixers and showers that present the water the way it deserves. Behind the elegant, award-winning products are well-known designers, sophisticated technologies, the passion for water and the desire for innovation. And two DEA GLOBAL coordinate measuring machines as well. At the company headquarters in Schiltach, Germany, Hansgrohe keeps watch over form and function of bathroom taps, mixers and showers with the help of these 3D measuring machines.

EBCC - Wroclaw
EBCC which specializes in gravity casting using aluminum alloys selected a Cognitens Optigo system for supporting dimensional quality inspection and reverse engineering in its facility. The complex production process involving mould making, automated foundry line, 5 axes machining centres and advanced forming simulations calls for process and quality control in order to achieve high quality.
The Cognitens White light technology was preferred by for various 3D measurement and digitizing applications including qualifying parts and tools and enhancing future product design.

Silbitz Guss
The portable measuring system in use at Silbitz Guss is an all-round performer: it can scan, take tactile measurements, mark the parts and automatically connect the Laser Tracker to handheld devices. To the benefit of the foundry‘s customers.

Lakber - Lakuntza
In industry sectors where work pieces are large and heavy, mobility is everything for a measurement system. When accuracy and easy handling are the other functional requirements, there is no way around a portable CMM. Spanish machining company Lakber came to this conclusion and uses a high-end Leica Absolute Tracker AT901 and a Leica T-Probe.

Burkhardt+Weber - Reutlingen
Burkhardt+Weber is at home with these giant sizes. The machining centres are used on manufacturing sites in the commercial vehicle, printing press, packaging machine or large engine industries and tackle there, like in other sectors, all machining tasks. The reason for the high quality of the machining centres is, among others, the high level of vertical integration. During the manufacture of core components such as machining spindles or turntable housings, the organisation keeps everything in-house. Therefore coordinate metrology capable of meeting the requirements in Reutlingen and that can measure large machine components with high accuracy is also required.

Euro-Techniek - Eindhoven
Justifiably Eindhoven can be termed the heart of the Dutch metal industry. Euro-Techniek, the company that has made a name for itself as a specialist for high-precision tools and components, is based here. Euro-Techniek showed financial acumen when it came to defining an advanced solution for metrology. A retrofit by Hexagon Metrology brought the company’s existing 3D measuring machine back to full performance.

Wild & Küpfer AG - Schmerikon
A black cube with an imposing glass facade. You almost think you are in front on a museum for contemporary art. The visitor is not actually so far off with this impression, as what is behind the facade is truly a work of art. The organisation Wild & Küpfer based in Schmerikon on the east bank of Lake Zurich specialises in plastic parts for a very wide range of sectors. Every part is unique, every tool is custommade. The accuracy of the tools is ensured with the aid of a DEA GLOBAL Advantage and the software PC-DMIS. As a result Wild & Küpfer has reduced the errors during pre-setting by 90%. Furthermore: measuring is easier.

Goldwind - Xinjiang
Three-dimensional measurement and analysis of rotor blade hubs and their production facility are highly complex and demanding measuring tasks. Such measurements can be successfully dealt with only by using modern measuring systems and a well-prepared measurement strategy.
Transferring the rotors energy efficiently to the main bearing and withstanding the enormous windload constantly, brings another critical part into focus, the main hub. The hub connects the three blades to form the rotor and is holding, depending on the model of wind power generator, the motorized pitch mechanism for each blade. The rotor itself is joint to the slowly rotating shaft or main bearing with another flange, thus forming a rigid horizontal rotation-axis into the nacelles gear box. Diameter, flatness and orientation of each flange of the hub are subject to precise quality inspections. Leica T-Probe, the walkaround-CMM, perfectly matches to the need of accuracy and ease of use. Connected to a state of the art metrology software Metrolog XG for Leica this one-man operated probing device enables Goldwind Science and Technology to quickly inspect and document the machined part as-build directly on the shop floor

TVL Van Landuyt NV - Wetteren
Only fifty microns is the tolerance on the axle bores of a 4-ton transmission case used in a wind turbine. The Belgian manufacturer TVL achieves reproducible measurement of the complex and nearly inaccessible geometry in about 30 minutes on a Leitz precision coordinate measuring machine made by Hexagon Metrology, Wetzlar.

TVL produces transmission housings up to 2500 mm length with bores having diameters of up to 2000 mm. As an example, the tolerance for a 650 mm bore is only ± 25 μm and must be measured verifiably on every housing. This means that drilling is toleranced at a mere 0.008 % of nominal size. Managing Director Geert Van Landuyt says: “We couldn‘t measure the big transmission housings in-house. So we were working together with a service provider with the necessary equipment in Germany.” But as production quantities grew, transportation to the service provider became a costly proposition. “We have decided in favor of our own coordinate measuring machine.”
Each of the 4-ton transmission housings has been measured on a Leitz PMM-F high precision cmm, manufactured by Hexagon Metrology GmbH,Wetzlar since November 2005

SFS intec - Heerbrugg
In the production halls articles are pressed, turned, ground and rolled. Hammering and clattering fills every nook and cranny. Thousands of small parts are tumbling into their assigned bins. At first glance the picture is deceptive: diversity rules here. Swiss concern SFS intec concentrates on the design and manufacture of customer-specific precision moulded parts, special screws and mechanical movement elements. Its range of customers is wide and varied: SFS intec designs and manufactures parts for the automobile, aerospace, fittings, leisure, electrical, electronic, window and door industries. The Leitz PMM-C Ultra is proving just as versatile as the spectrum of parts produced by SFS intec. Quality assurance is given every encouragement at the headquarters of the company in Heerbrugg, Switzerland.

ABB Robotics - Västerås
High speed tracking is one of the most stringent requirements for robot control, machine guidance and Metrology Assisted Assembly. Robot calibration, accuracy improvement of drilling machines or automation of wingto-body assembly are just some examples of machine control applications of Leica Geosystems Laser Trackers.

Cranfield University
Built by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) the E-ELT, a ground-based telescope, will be 42m in diameter and made up of 1,000 hexagonal segments, each 1.5m wide and just 5cm thick. Cranfield’s BoX (Big OptiX), a specialised grinding and measurement system, was developed at Cranfield specifically for realising these mirrors.

Located in Cranfield’s Loxham Precision laboratory, which is sponsored by Hexagon Metrology, is a Leitz PMM-F 30.20.10 CMM. This Ultra High Accuracy (UHA) measuring system is used to verify the performance of the Cranfield BoX grinding machine and measures the mirror segments.