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Contract Manufacturing: API Systems used at German´s largest contract Manufacturer: Kinkele GmbH - 15655 The perfect solution for Contract Manufacturing

Kinkele manufactured the internal and external airbreaks for the A320 and the A380 with a size of approximately 8 to 3 meters. The ability to be able to do everything is Kinkele´s strongest characteristic in comparison to other compa-nies. Kinkele has 350 customers in 25 industries and is a classic contract manufacturer. “We make every-thing that others find too difficult, too complicated or are in too much of a rush to make”, explains Edgar Fleckenstein, Quality Department Manager at Kinkele. At Kinkele no project is the same as another. Kinkele´s main priority when choosing the new measurement system. The system needed to be as universal as possible. Finally Kinkele found exactly what they were looking for with the API Laser Trackers - a metrology product for industrial employment. The Laser Tracker 3 and the XD Laser 5/6D have been employed in Edgar Fleckenstein`s department since the middle of 2006. Six parameters manufactured in one measurement procedure Kinkele manufactured the internal and external airbreaks for the Airbus A320 and A380. These airbreaks were approximately 3 to 8 meters. The main task for quality assurance was parallelism and position measurements. Fleckenstein´s staff were already using the XD Laser 5/6D at the start of the project, in order to measure and exa- mine the machine. Contrary to conventional interferometers, which accomplish distance measurements by two line- ar shifted prisms, the XD Laser 5/6D is developed on single axles, so that measurement accuracy can be increased with parallel measurements and 6 parameters can be measured at one time.The XD Laser System measures axle angle-, slope -, and linearity. It is possible to save up to two thirds of time when using the XD Laser, immediately proving its ROI: Service machine standing time is very expensive and error probability increases the longer a measurement lasts. The equipment can compensate temperature variations via its integrated sensors. "If a measurement would last longer than one day, it would affect the accuracy", states Fle- ckenstein.
Press Release from Automated Precision Deutschland GmbH, O6,7, 68161 Mannheim, Germany Contact: Kay Wessin, Marketing, Tel.: +49 621 170 289 0, kay.wessin@apisensor.com