Copilot Pro^®: A full method for the steering of the machining

¹ Universitéde Savoie, Polytech Annecy-Chambéry, Symme lab., BP 80439, 74944 Annecy Cedex, France
² Centre Technique des industries du Décolletage (Ctdec), 750 avenue de Colomby, BP 65, 74301 Cluses, Cedex, France
³ Université de Technologie de Troyes, LASMIS lab., 12 rue Marie Curie, 10010 Troyes, France

^⋆ Correspondence: eric.pairel@univ-savoie.fr

Received: 15 February 2011
Accepted: 17 March 2011

Abstract

Copilot Pro^® is a method for the initial and regular machine-tools setup, developed by the Symme laboratory of the Savoy University and by the Technical Center of Industries of Screw-machining (Ctdec) in France. Its first step is the organization of the different machining operations, in setup steps, themselves subdivided into measuring steps. The second step consists in determining the manufacturing dimensions to measure at the end of each measuring step. Finally, the third step consists in linking the manufacturing dimensions to both the correctors and the tool-dimensions, in the aim of calculating the corrections that have to be done in function of the deviations measured on the manufacturing dimensions. With this method, the steering of an industrial workpiece is performed with two steering parts instead of ten before.