Henschel ensures the quality of heavy gear housings with measuring technology from ZEISS

Henschel manufactures gears for plastics processing machines, for streetcars and trains. The gearboxes, which were purchased externally until recently, are now manufactured internally. Quality inspection of the steel housings that weigh up to several tons and are up to four meters long demand a very big, highly precise measuring machine. Bodo Kohlmeyer, Head of Quality Management at Henschel, therefore invested in a new machine from Carl Zeiss IMT a few months ago.

As Kohlmeyer knows all too well, a measuring machine is an investment that must be well-founded. "Many operations cut back on measuring technology and use manual logs and visual inspections instead. The results can sometimes make your head spin,” reports Kohlmeyer. Problems with the inaccuracies of individual housing suppliers are now a thing of the past for Henschel. “We have made a considerable jump in our delivery reliability and are now efficiently implementing our high demands on quality,” summarizes Kohlmeyer. The long service life and the internationally renowned reliability of the gears will guarantee that Henschel will continue receiving orders from discerning customers around the world in the future.