Casting & Forging

The benefits our solutions provide are not only relevant to those machining a delivered casting or forging. Being a manufacturer of parts, finding the optimum orientation and marking the part before delivering to the customer adds substantial value to the product.

Detailed workflow:

Start by using the CAD model of the finished machined part as a reference. Then initiate a rough alignment of the model to the casting or forging and finally measure the critical features of the part to fine-tune your alignment.

These are usually the surfaces which need machining or don’t have a lot of surplus material. Quite often those critical areas are difficult to reach – here Metronor’s unique ability to collect measurement points by deep-probing is essential.

Once the relevant surfaces have been measured, our software finds the orientation of the part that provides the optimum stock distribution at these surfaces. The resulting orientation is defined by a slight transformation to the coordinate system of the part to be machined.

There are various ways of making use of this information to achieve the correct alignment on the CNC machine. Note also that adjusting the part directly on a spare CNC machining bed is possible, even whilst the machine is working on another part.