Case Study: Meyer Tool reduces hard gauge costs with Renishaw Equator gauging

Meyer Tool cuts hard gauge costs by up to $20,000 with Renishaw

Meyer Tool, a leading U.S. aerospace component manufacturer, faced high costs and inflexibility with its custom hard gauges used for in-process measurement. Each gauge could cost up to $20,000 to design and build, with expensive reconfiguration for design changes. The challenge was to reduce these costs while maintaining quality standards and traceability to Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) data. They engaged vendor Renishaw to trial its software-driven Equator comparative gauge system.

Renishaw's solution replaced multiple dedicated hard gauges with a single, reprogrammable Equator system. It provided rapid, repeatable measurements traceable to CMM standards and integrated seamlessly with Meyer Tool's SPC software. This implementation eliminated at least four hard gauges in one work cell alone, with the potential to replace three to five hard gauges per cell across the company. The system provided real-time feedback within tight tolerances, supported multiple part numbers, and significantly reduced requalification efforts, offering Meyer Tool a flexible path to drastically cut its hard gauge cost burden.

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