Part marking machine.Ford has a lot riding on its 500 hp GT supercar Supercar is a term used for a high-end sports car, typically an exotic or rare one, whose performance is highly superior to that of its contemporaries. The proper application of the term is subjective and disputed, especially among enthusiasts. , so to make sure each engine is assembled properly it is using the Richter UniGrav programmable peen marking machine from Columbia Marking Tools (CMT CMT Certified Medical Transcriptionist. CMT abbr. Certified Medical Transcriptionist CMT California mastitis test. ; Harrison Twp., MI; www.columbiamt.com) to mark its cylinder head bearing caps. CMT describes the UniGrav as the world's largest programmable dot/scribe peen marking machine, and in the Ford GT application it has an X-axis travel of 500 mm and Y-axis travel of 100 mm. The UniGrav can be ordered with either a servo An electromechanical device that uses feedback to provide precise starts and stops for such functions as the motors on a tape drive or the moving of an access arm on a disk. motor drive that can achieve 10 characters/sec. with 0.005 mm positioning accuracy, or a stepper motor A motor that rotates in small, fixed increments and is used to control the movement of the access arm on a disk drive. Contrast with voice coil. (hardware) stepper motor drive with 0.02 mm repeatability at 5 characters/sec. |
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