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TECH INNOVATION

ANCA’s newest

Smart Factory

tool, LaserUltra,

is 70% FASTER

MEASURING

TOOLS

NCA leads the market in and advanced profile geometry cutting
inventing, developing, and tools is revolutionising the Die and Mold
Aoffering its customers the latest and Aerospace machining industries.
technology to realise the benefits of ANCA’s LaserUltra tool measurement
automation and lights out manufacturing. system together with RN34 software
LaserUltra is the next generation of the gives tool manufacturers all they need
highly popular LaserPlus, an in-process to manufacture complex profile endmills
measurement technology only available productively to outstanding accuracy.”
with ANCA that gave customers the
power to operate unmanned overnight LaserUltra offers:
with confidence they could retrieve • A cycle time that is approximately 70%
their finished tools the next day within faster than LaserPlus in normal tool
specification. measurements.
Pat Boland, ANCA Co-Founder • Greater accuracy due to a new Analog
said: “The intersection of 5 axis milling continuous edge scan rather than a
machines, advanced CAD/CAM software number of digital points.

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