A robot-served automated FLX Station designed and built at New Vista to "GO" verify pitch diameter and thread depth, and "NOGO" verify minor diameter of two deep internal threads in an aluminum extrusion.
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This New Vista-built Thread-Verification Station is in use in North America.
In industrial and defense / aerospace work, threads like this two-inch size are common.
The objective here is to "GO" and "NO GO" verify the thread in this part.
This robot-served FLX Station is compact and easily installed.
Threads even larger than M150 (6 inches) are accommodated for with this technique.
The "GO" test is performed first...
The, the "NO GO" test...
Pass / Fail signals are sent to the robot and displayed on the HMI.
Robot-served techniques like this are simple and inexpensive, so they are generally preferred.
Compliant Toolholders are applied in applications like this because alignment is never perfect.
From very small threads to very large ones, the technique is the same.
But sometimes, an application may require a robot to handle the Thread Unit.
For such applications, New Vista has a full line of Robotic Thread Units.
