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Laser-enhanced field services can optimize equipment performance
SMS Millcraft continually deploys new technologies to improve our services and reduce our costs so we can help our customers optimize operations and produce superior products. To enhance our field service capabilities, we've acquired the latest advancement in measurement technology, a portable 3-D computer-aided laser contact coordinate measurement system.
With it, our staff of technical, operational and process control experts can now more precisely align, inspect and set-up any type of primary metals-making equipment that requires precision alignment. It also allows us to align more types of equipment and makes it easier to trouble-shoot problems.
Compared to optical measuring equipment, this laser measurement system is amazingly accurate and fast. It allows us to take extremely accurate measurements over large distances with a point-to-point accuracy up to 0.0004 inches (0.011mm) in less time. Our new system also measures 3-D coordinates in real time, is accurate in all environments and has a proprietary measurement method that allows the operator to instantly reacquire the beam and continue gathering data if the beam is interrupted.
Most importantly, our field service experts don’t just gather data. Because they have a wealth of field service expertise, our technicians know what the data means, have the expertise to know what adjustments to make and the skills to precisely align equipment so it operates better, longer and provides consistently better quality product.
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