VCMM Availability

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I'm just trying to confirm my suspicions about the availability of the VCMM add-on for Calypso that is discribed here.

If you know whether or not it's available to you, please reply "yes" or "no", along with the country where you are located.

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Here in Germany it is available. Installed on two cmms and regarding one of them just recently.

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Thanks!
 

Full disclosure: my hunch is that Germany is the only country where it is available, since I believe it was developed in cooperation with PTB (the German NMI).

Edited November 15, 2024

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Yes, it was developed in cooperation with PTB. It is important to know that - at least in Germany - the complete installation of vcmm is carried out by a company called "Eumetron". The only thing Zeiss has done, was a necessary calibration of the cmm with DAkks accuracy. My notion is that the whole vcmm issue is put in second place and only a handful of people at Zeiss are engaged with it. Probably since only a few customers order it.

Maybe you might contact Eumetron and ask if they can help you or give further information.

Here is the link to their hompage:

https://www.eumetron.de/en-gb/home

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Thanks for your response.  I'm familiar with Eumetron.  We have a KOBA gauge that we originally purchased with an accredited traceable calibration certificate that was provided by Eumetron.  The certificate says the measurement of the KOBA gauge was performed on a Prismo, which I find interesting, because Zeiss' specs for the prismo aren't anywhere near as tight as the uncertainty Eumetron put on  the certificate.  Someone at Zeiss told me that it is a decked out Prismo that Eumetron runs with all the shrouds off to prevent trapping heat in the shrouds.

Could you please clarify: are you saying that Eumetron is the only company that uses VCMM or that VCMM has to be set up by Eumetron? I was once told by our aftermarket sales rep at Zeiss that VCMM is not available to us.  I guess it would make sense that to simulate inaccuracies in the CMM, one would need a lot of information that would require thermal sensors to be installed throughout the CMM, and there would be a lot of setup involved.

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No, Eumetron isn't the only one that uses VCMM (I'm not working there 😉).

At least in Germany, Zeiss engages Eumetron to do the whole VCMM setup including a one day training.

https://carl-zeiss-industrial-metrology-llc.helpjuice.com/calypso-need-to-be-sorted/vcmm-virtual-cmm-for-calypso?from_search=166337249