SA: Making the Grade at Janicki
Janicki Industries designs and builds high precision tooling for aerospace, marine, wind energy, and transportation customers. Some of its aerospace customers include Boeing, Lockheed, ATK, and NASA. To serve the challenging needs of these industries, Janicki integrated portable metrology technology into its daily manufacturing processes several years ago. Today, Janicki has a world class array of portable metrology instruments that includes laser trackers, laser radar, CMMs, and various other devices.
But it’s important to note that these instruments are only as good as the software that controls them.
SA: Making the Grade at Janicki
Janicki Industries designs and builds high precision tooling for aerospace, marine, wind energy, and transportation customers. Some of its aerospace customers include Boeing, Lockheed, ATK, and NASA. To serve the challenging needs of these industries, Janicki integrated portable metrology technology into its daily manufacturing processes several years ago.
As technology in this area advanced, so have customer demands for tighter tolerances and supporting quality documentation. The requirements of current and new customers for more sophisticated components and production rates continue to drive Janicki to seek new ways to leverage its investment in the area of metrology. Janicki responded to these demands with significant investments in both hardware and software.
Today, Janicki has a world class array of portable metrology instruments that includes laser trackers, laser radar, CMMs, and various other devices. But it’s important to note that these instruments are only as good as the software that controls them.
In 2010, there were two primary software solutions in use at Janicki, and SpatialAnalyzer® (SA) from New River Kinematics was one of them. For years, Janicki used a combination of metrology solutions. However, to meet the ever-increasing and stringent requirements mandated by its customers, Janicki found itself routinely turning to SA as the portable metrology solution of choice.
Standardization was the next logical step to improve their metrology program. After a thorough evaluation, Janicki selected SA as its standard solution for portable metrology applications at all of their facilities. As a result of their standardization program, Janicki will see measurable gains in productivity and reductions in operational cost. Improvement areas include: reduced training cost, work cell automation with SA measurement plans, improved communications, and reporting. That’s why SA has emerged as the software of choice at Janicki and also at many of its large aerospace customers.
Automation, is a significant new opportunity for Janicki. SA’s Measurement Plan functionality provides the ability to automate many tasks associated with capture of measurement data, model comparisons, subsequent analysis and reporting. MP is a configurable and programmable platform that is easy-to-use, yet delivers solid reliable solutions for engineers and production work cells. It reduces errors, saves time and can be integrated into production processes. Customers using SA and well-crafted MP’s routinely realize significant savings. Just ask Janicki!
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