Rolling inspection software with new features
14.01.2009 12:30
More than two years ago, FRENCO the gear and spline specialist from Altdorf, Germany, successfully took on the double flank gear rolling inspection line from Hommel-Etamic based in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. Frenco is therefore in a position to not only maintain & calibrate Hommel double flank gear rolling testers ZWG8305 and ZWG8315, but also to offer retrofits and upgrades to the measurement and evaluation software 'Frenco Gear Inspector' (FGI pro). In addition Frenco is also managing Mahr’s former range of rolling inspection instruments.

The Frenco developed measurement and evaluations software 'FGI pro' is continuously improved and adjusted to new customer requirements by their in-house software engineers.
The software offers many interesting features due to its extremely application-oriented development, and can also be used for retrofitted Mahr and Hommel instruments.

The software offers the discerning user a number of options to display the measurement evaluations, for example, series of measurements can be displayed in comparison. Freely selectable measurements within a sequence can be clearly juxtaposed and compared. Using this tool the user can quickly identify when and how deviations are repeated and errors or similar patterns can therefore be detected.

Another very useful feature, on software level, is the traceability of the measured values (virtual level) to the physical workpiece, so-called ‘positioning’. At the click of a mouse on any point in the graph, the workpiece can be rotated precisely to the indicated position, say for example the largest Fi'' error. It is also possible to generate a rule from this setting and record it in the inspection plan.

A global feature for internationally active companies is the separation between program and output language. A measurement report, which was generated in the USA in English can be displayed and evaluated in Europe in German, for example. Other available language versions, in addition to English and German, are: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Polish and Russian. This is a global communication advantage.

Add-ons are available for a large number of special applications, for example to measure the coating thickness of partly coated gears.
Whichever solution the user requires – the gear and spline specialist Frenco believes in an interactive process with the customer. Suitable solutions are found quickly and reliably even for complex customer-specific applications. Frenco’s clear advantage is being a single source supplier: from instruments to design engineering, software and master gears (which are ground on the in-house grinding machine).

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