Renishaw, a world leader in precision engineering technologies, will be exhibiting its extensive range of metrology and additive manufacturing equipment at IMTEX 2017 which takes place at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore, India, from 26th January to 1st February. Renishaw will be exhibiting on stand B123, Hall 3A, showing its new RenAM 500M additive manufacturing system, its new high productivity machining cell concept, as well as its new non-contact vision measurement probe system (RVP) for co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs). Also demonstrated will be the new MODUS 2™ metrology software suite which simplifies the programming of CMMs, plus Renishaw’s full suite of machine tool probes, calibration products, metrology fixtures, styli and position encoders, including the Queen’s Award winning Resolute™ absolute encoder.

Making its India trade show debut will be the RenAM 500M. Fully designed and engineered in-house to be used for serialised production, the RenAM 500M builds complex metal components directly from CAD using metal powder fusion technology. Highlights of the system include a Renishaw designed and engineered optical system with dynamic focussing, automated powder sieving and recirculation, a 500 W ytterbium fibre laser and patented high capacity dual filter SafeChange™ system.

Other Renishaw innovations at IMTEX 2017 include:

• High productivity machining cell that will demonstrate the effects of machine tool performance on the quality of parts produced, and show how manufacturers can monitor and control their machines to ensure they are capable of producing good parts
• SPRINT™ high-speed contact scanning system, which brings exceptional, high-speed, high-accuracy scanning to CNC machine tools
• IMTEX also sees the India launch of Renishaw’s new vision measurement probe (RVP) for use with the REVO-2 5-axis measurement system on CMMs
• MODUS 2™ metrology software suite that brings new levels of clarity and efficiency to the programming and operation of CMMs
• Also on display will be the VIONiC digital encoder range which has been designed to reduce overall system size to the minimum achievable for a high-performance system, whilst delivering class-leading performance in terms of cyclic error, jitter and accuracy, and
• Renishaw will also exhibit its new XM-60 multi-axis calibrator at IMTEX. The XM-60 is capable of measuring all six degrees of freedom from a single set-up, in any orientation for linear axes. It offers significant improvement in simplicity and time saving over conventional laser measurement techniques.