Ansco Machine Cuts Inspection Time by 80%

Like many successful shops across the country, Ansco Machine is a progressive company. With over 30 years of design and manufacturing experience, they turn a critical eye to the design and functionality of the parts they produce. They actively look for cost savings and efficiencies in both their processes and in their finished products.

Ansco is a full-service contract shop that specializes in milling and turning up to 78” in diameter. They seek out challenging work and one of the many projects they took on was the machining of a cast iron housing that weighs about 750 pounds. The part was too large and cumbersome to be inspected by Ansco’s traditional bridge-type CMM. It was also difficult to check location and relation between features using other conventional methods like dial bore gauges. The older technology was just not sufficient in terms of size, time, or cost.

To take on this very large and challenging job, Ansco sought out the best technology available to ensure their success. They have a long history of looking for ways to improve their processes to expand their business and capabilities, so this was not something unusual for them.

The technology Ansco sought out was the FARO Gage. The Gage is a portable CMM that was designed to enable users to speed through measurement challenges with the most accurate results possible. “The FARO Gage is the perfect solution for this project,” said Wes Suladi, Ansco’s QA Manager. “It is not only the right size to get at all of the features we have to measure, but its accuracy gives me the confidence that what is being reported is true.”

What used to take Ansco over an hour and a half to inspect using conventional technology can now be done in less than twenty minutes using the FARO Gage. That is almost an 80-percent reduction in work time and that equates to a real cost savings in time and productivity.

Ansco’s ability to look past older methods to improve their processes is another example of how progressive and advance-minded manufacturers move to get the best technology that supports their work and their success.
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