RHEINTACHO invests in quality with HEXAGON measuring center

The Freiburg family-owned company is innovative - the new measuring center, for example, not only helps with the technical inspection of incoming goods and the creation of initial sample inspection reports, but also provides the development department with opportunities to verify new products more easily.

Since mid-2017, RHEINTACHO has benefited from the optical and tactile measurement accuracy of the HEXAGON measurement center. Non-contact measurement is particularly suitable for sensitive components such as unpopulated printed circuit boards. In the past, these assemblies were measured laboriously by an employee using manual aids. Now the measuring center completes this task in no time at all at the push of a button. With a few simple steps, the user can display measurement results down to the micrometer range. This extensive pool of measured values helps to gain process reliability and increases transparency.

Ralf Dilberger/ Head of Quality Assurance at RHEINTACHO: "Today, with the help of the measuring microscope, we not only gain time, but also increase flexibility in the department, as the ease of use ensures access for multiple users. An initial sampling or the internal release procedure after e.g. tool maintenance can be implemented even more efficiently today. The automatic archiving of the measurement results also provides us with verification protocols which play an important role in retrograde analyses or for the development of new products."

The goal is to test more complex mechanical components with the system using special fixtures, so that even more economical and efficient work will be possible in the future.