Case study Spirax Sarco UK invested in a Renishaw QC20-W wireless ballbar to check the geometry of its high-end machining centres before and after they were transferred to a new, purpose-built facility. The move was part of a £30 million initiative - called ‘Project Unity’, that brought together three Spirax manufacturing sites under one roof at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. In their new location, Spirax Sarco’s Mori-Seiki MH50 and HG630 horizontal milling machines are used to produce BSA bellows valves in batch sizes determined by the company’s Kanban system. Before the relocation, however, the machines had been integrated into Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) where, explains Richard Morris – Spirax production engineer, “they were worked very hard indeed for 16 years.” Bef

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