Diagnostics
Why your ballscrew is noisy but the pitch reads fine
A ballscrew can pass a laser check and still tell you it is on the way out. Nine times out of ten the noise…
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Diagnostics
Field-level fault-finding on CNC machining centres.
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Diagnostics
Field notes: a Fanuc 0i-MF that only faulted at 3am
Intermittent alarms are the worst kind of ticket. This one only fired on the night shift, and the fix was not on the machine.
Diagnostics
Renishaw ballbar: reading squareness errors without over-correcting
A ballbar plot is easy to over-interpret. Squareness in particular can look catastrophic when the real problem is a stiff axis, not the geometry.
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