Precision manufacturing

Our precision manufacturing solutions are helping manufacturers around the world tackle new production challenges. These include the increased demand for innovative new products with more complex parts, higher design specifications and shorter product lifecycles.

For over 40 years, industrial metrology has been at the core of Renishaw's business. As precision manufacturers ourselves, we've developed robust process control solutions that give our customers confidence that their parts will meet design intent and that their manufacturing processes perform as required. Process control solutions increase the levels of automation which are possible in manufacturing, reducing dependency on skilled operators to maintain the quality of production parts. The ability to create parts with tightly toleranced features is vital in many industries for the performance, aesthetics and safety of finished products. Our industrial metrology systems and sensors capture the data required to identify and control sources of variation, enabling increased throughput with reduced rework, concessions and scrap.

Widely publicised trends, such as Industry 4.0, demonstrate the growth of smart manufacturing and the demand for connected machine shops. The integration of physical and digital manufacturing technologies with intelligent sensors and software provides manufacturers with an unparalleled opportunity to develop processes which deliver improved productivity and process capability. Renishaw helps customers to successfully implement smart manufacturing and automation into their current operations with existing technology.

We are also at the forefront of recent advances in additive manufacturing (AM), also known as metal 3D printing, for production manufacturing. This technology is an enabler of new levels of functional performance and manufacturing capability, thanks to the greater design freedom that it provides compared to traditional manufacturing methods.

Industrial automation

Robust automation is at the heart of smart manufacturing, with intelligent decision-making key to the factories of the future. Creating automated processes relies on data from sensors and control systems. Gathering data and information from different areas of the manufacturing workflow enables decision making that optimises control for robust and responsive processes. Renishaw's proven, highly repeatable sensors provide reliable data about parts, processes and machines.

Mould and die

Mass production of accurate components relies on precisely machined moulds and dies. Product lifecycles are contracting, causing lead times for producing new tooling to become shorter than ever. Process control ensures that critical tooling is produced accurately first time, streamlining manufacturing for rapid delivery of products. Using AM allows moulds to be made with integrated and optimised cooling channels for rapid and repeatable part production.

Process control and manufacturing improvement

We offer a range of process control solutions and associated services including the technologies necessary to control the key process variables in CNC machining. Improved process control enhances process capability and the productivity of manufacturing operations.

Motion control

Machine calibration, monitoring and motion control are essential for producing high-precision parts using processes which can be re-created in a predictable way for mass production.