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Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)

Leading CMM technology & expertise tailored to your requirements

CEMMNT offer unique access to state-of-the-art CMM technologies, facilities and expertise, providing a cost-effective, fast-turn around service tailored to suit each individual client's requirements.

High-accuracy co-ordinate metrology of small components

Micro-scale components are increasingly found in critical applications within the automotive, aerospace and medical industries. CEMMNT provide clients with a commercially available service for measuring and validating these precision components. The CMM has been designed specifically for the measurement of small, delicate parts, and uses high accuracy probing systems to achieve an accuracy of 250nm within a measurement volume of 100mm x 100mm x 100mm.

If you require measurements for component inspection, product development or analysis please contact us today to discuss your requirements in more detail.

Benefit from the latest in CMM technology with access to CEMMNT's new Zeiss F25 micro CMM

CEMMNT's new Zeiss F25 Coordintate Measuring Machine (CMM) ensures your measurements are made with the highest levels of accuracy. Using miniature probes the F25 CMM is used to measure critical dimensions, form, and text of micro system components and tiny engineering parts. 

Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM)

Key Information

Touch scanning probe (3D)

  • Single point and scanning operation
  • 125 um or 300 um diameter probe ball
  • Low probing force (0.5mN)
  • CMM specification; (0.25 + L/666) um (L= measuring length in mm)
  • 100 mm x 100 mm x 100 mm measurement volume

Optical probe (2D)

  • ViScan camera sensor combined with high quality objective lens (x10)
  • CMM specification: (0.4 = L/666) um
  • Can be used in conjunction with touch probe 

Co-ordintate measuring machine (CMM) Background

A co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM) is a programmable, versatile instrument that is used to measure dimensional data for many types of manufactured component. CMMs have three or more measurement axes combined in series so that a unique combination of axes positions defines a single point in space. Measuring an object using a CMM is achieved by moving a measuring probe to a number of points on the object surface in sequence and measuring the position of the probe at each point via the machine scales. CMM are used extensively in manufacturing as QA/QC tools and have unique capabilites to measure high aspect ratio structures and steep sidewalls.

Common Applications

Typical measurement applications include:

  • Automotive, aerospace and medical microsystem components
  • Micro-channels and nozzles, micro-wave components
  • Micro-optical components
  • Micro-injection molded components and injection molds
  • High Aspect Ration micro-structures
  • Critical dimensions of engineering parts
  • Microfluidics
  • Implant structures
CEMMNT Benefits
  • Unique micro CMM Service (Zeiss F25)
  • Analysis of high aspect ratio structures, devices and components
  • NPL calibrated and validated
  • Rapid response service