Sourcesoferroranduncertaintyinmachinetoolcalibration.PDFVIP

Sources of error and uncertainty in machine tool calibration Dr Andrew Longstaff Dr Simon Fletcher University of Huddersfield • Founded in 1825 • A history of education, innovation and industrial collaboration • Over 2,800 staff • 24,000 students • studying more than 400 degrees • An international University • Students from over 130 countries • Delivering courses in China, Hong Kong, India and Singapore 2 EPSRC Centre •The EPSRC Centre for •Considering concept of the Innovative Manufacturing in “factory on the machine”, Advanced Metrology we require elevation of • based at the University of machine tool accuracies Huddersfield’s • hardware and software • Centre for Precision solution for stable Technologies, metrology frame • a long-established group with an international • Efficient, traceable reputation in precision calibration engineering and metrology research and development. 3 Machine tool error measurement