The Faro arm opens up unexpected possibilities in workshops Megama

Workshops Megama in Badalona, is a company of 20 workers 45 years of existence dedicated to the design and manufacture of pieces and basically sets the machine specified in the pharmaceutical sector. Among its usual work is having to manufacture on the basis of already existing parts spare parts without the corresponding level, then having to find out dimensions and forms that often have been altered by wear or breakage. However Megama workshops also constructed new design pieces, counting for this with a technical office with three specialized people, and the support of Solid Edge CAD program. Formats for emblistadoras for all the machines on the market, hallmarks of compression, codecs in batch and expiration, Star transport, formats for filler machines for tubes, needles of filling of bottles and a long etc.

Marc Dodge García, head of production of Talleres Megama, explains the decision by the acquisition of a lighthouse Titanium 1.2 arm and the most common applications in workshops Megama.

"The use of large amounts of time in the design of hard copy and great mechanical responsibility was a matter of constant concern to us, as it greatly retardaba the normal rhythm of work, accumulated delays in our production process." To discover the Faro Arm arm at the fair in Bilbao in 2004, we have no doubt a moment that it was an essential tool for us. Together with lighthouse, were analysed two products of the competition, one of similar design and a three-dimensional table. Although the initial price of lighthouse was superior to the other two options, the results of the tests made in our workshop and with real pieces did not doubt, flexibility and compatibility with Solid Edge lighthouse and CAM2 Measure arm he adapted much better to our needs. "And from the moment that we had him, pieces that so far we do not dare not to bid for its complexity have become possible build."

In this company of Badalona common applications with the aforementioned arm are as follows:

• Copy and construction of all types of cam. Given special importance in those dual path, where there is an unbreakable link between the two, and therefore the relative positions of all the operations are basic.
• Copy and construction of parts made by casting or injection, originally designed to be constructed with moulds and long series, and who for various reasons is not possible or cost-effective to build with the same procedure. Such pieces are in the sector of workshops Megame: distributors and food distributors of powder for presses compress, etc.
• Repairs of machinery, verification of the relative dimensions of the elements as a whole is of great importance to be able to make the necessary pieces knowing with certainty the critical dimensions: measures entrecentros of axes, primitive diameters, position of fastening elements, etc.
• Multitude of pieces of curved forms until the present day needed method of trial and error to be correctly copied. The realization of templates and verification of the piece, over and over again to get an acceptable approximation is of all known. With the addition of the FARO Arm Arm to the measuring instruments, are over the loss of time in this regard, such pieces can be: handrails of transport in filling machines of flasks, bottles, blades cutting of non-conventional forms of transport sectors, etc.
• Verification and control parts, built or not by Megama workshops. Since the incorporation of the arm to the technical Office works until today could not offer its clients such as verification of elements who for various reasons is required to assess dimensionally have emerged: numerical evaluation of wear or defects in the construction are now much more easy to verify.

"Having lighthouse, along the fact of the overall portability of the generated files to Solid Edge directly and without conversions, meant for us a peace of mind that until now we didn't have."

"We can now say that we can build any piece of our specialty that you request," says Marc Dodge. "At the same time we save time with the use of the Faro arm."

This varies according to the piece which has to be measured. Put it in majority of unique pieces that we manufacture we becomes difficult to assess the time we earn ourselves. However as the following example: the design of a cam of dual path occupied 26 hours of work, our technical office without ever have the absolute guarantee until the time of its installation on machine that there would be no unexpected errors. "Currently similar camshaft is have drawn little more than 3 hours, with the peace of mind that there will be no errors in design."