As the world’s largest manufacturer of landing systems for airplanes, Safran Landing Systems counts Airbus and Boeing among its customers. Blum-Novotest plays an important part in ensuring that the passengers of hundreds of airliners equipped with Safran products reach their destination safely day by day. With the roughness measuring system TC63-RG from Blum-Novotest, the Canadian company was able to achieve higher levels of safety and quality in their production process while at the same time greatly reducing production times.

Safran has long been using production measuring equipment from Blum-Novotest to ensure that every assembly that leaves the plant meets strict customer requirements. Initially, Safran mainly employed laser measuring systems in their CNC processing centres to measure the length and radius of tools and to monitor for wear and tool breakage. “For some years now, we have been relying on the CNC probe TC63 for measuring work pieces in our processing centres. We recently added the BLUM surface roughness measuring system TC63-RG, which we now use to monitor surfaces automatically. Surfaces are a particularly critical feature in the high-tech systems that Safran manufactures,” says NC Coordinator Shawn Page and adds, with a view to the production of landing gear components: “The machining process is very work intensive. This is because precision is essential to our customers and surface quality is of utmost importance.“