Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding Applications
Shipbuilding has become a rather high-tech endeavor, with industrial metrology soaking in the limelight ever so frequently. Huge ship hull blocks are aligned using sophisticated industrial theodolites and laser stations while extremely complex conical gear elements with spiral cogging found in a ship's propulsion system are meticulously inspected with extra high-accuracy coordinate measurement machines (CMMs).



Meccanica Ponte Chiese - Brescia
Automation to the nth Power

Automatic factory, unmanned manufacturing cycles, FMS, AGV… In the ‘80s, these used to be the favourite talking-points in the industrial world. The companies looked at a future with plants in which only a few people in white coats controlled machines and robots working, producing, and transferring every kind of components or finished products. ...

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