AIMS Metrology, an OEM for coordinate measuring machines, announced it has acquired Englewood, Ohio-based CMI Technologies. The recent purchase is one of several investments AIMS has made this year to better serve its customers. Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, the company completed a second expansion in April 2016, building out assembly areas and climate-controlled laboratories. In July, the company was awarded a $100,000 grant to develop new vision and image recognition technology for its CMMs. The addition of the CMI facility will allow AIMS to control quality and delivery timeframes for the components it manufactures for its LM and HB series CMMs.
“We’ve been looking for the right tool and die shop for a couple of years,” said AIMS President Dave Delph. “We found out that CMI was for sale and the company’s people, expertise, and equipment sold us on them. Aside from quality improvements, we’ll be able to gain greater efficiencies in operational costs. Bringing this work in-house also means we can deliver our products when we say we will.”
In addition to the CMMs that AIMS designs and builds, it will use its expanded capabilities to develop and produce air and electronic gages.
“If a customer needs greater throughput or higher accuracy than a CMM can deliver, these gages will provide that,” Delph said.
The new gages will be engineered to complement the OEM’s CMMs and function as part of a work cell in a variety of applications.
AIMS was founded in 2009 to equip the industry with the tools to perform accurate, flexible three-dimensional inspection for in-process and post-process parts. In 2015, the Dayton, Ohio-based OEM launched its line of Revolution LM and HB series coordinate measuring machines designed and engineered to introduce and bring Renishaw 5-axis measurement technology to the shop floor and the laboratory. The AIMS Revolution line of CMMs are exclusively supported by Renishaw technology through probe heads, touch probes, scanning probes, incremental encoder scale systems, change racks, styli, controls, and Modus software. Faster measuring speeds, enhanced accuracy, higher throughput, and lower cost of ownership make the Revolution series products especially suited for the quality control process demands of efficiency-driven manufacturers and the growing number of smart factories and automated operations. In addition to matching customer requirements with the right turnkey CMM system, AIMS provides installation, service/support, and training. Machine retrofits and refurbished equipment are also available.
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