Meyer & Dorner GmbH, a firm that specializes in the production of sharpening and maintenance of broaching tools, came to item with a rather unique request. Meyer & Dorner worked closely with item International engineers and technical staff to develop a special test control unit that optimizes tool endurance and isolates sources of error and abrasions that occur during cutting tool production.

These top grade machine tools are used across many high volume production industries such as automotive assembly, aircraft build and retrofit, industrial machine building and automation.



Meyer & Dorner chose to work with item because of its extensive line of modular components and structural aluminum profiles. Because of the wide array of cutting tools and their different dimensions, item engineers knew that flexibility was a key parameter in design consideration. item’s offering of more than 320 different profiles allowed engineers to match the material to the application instead of designing around a limited number of structural aluminum choices. This flexibility allows Meyer & Dorner customers to realize extended cutting tool life while maximizing quality.

Each automated testing cell contains a 40x microscope and a three-axis-linear motion handling system constructed from item’s new line 12 profile and dynamic linear elements. item’s line 12 profile is an extremely heavy duty profile based upon a 60mm modular dimension and heavy duty M12 screw connections. D25 bearing shafts and shaft clamp profile provide the rigidity and strength that is required for this precise vision application.



item’s new design allows Meyer & Dorner to easily change the vertical and horizontal optical zoom of their testing equipment. A hand driven item ball screw (20 x 20 pitch) allows customers to easily alter microscope height with significantly increased precision.

In addition to improvements in testing equipment, Meyer & Dorner offers real time analysis of tool wear which can quickly communicated via reports and digital photographs via the Internet.

Working closely with item engineers and designers can quickly solve manufacturing and automation issues. For additional information on what item North America can do for you, call 330-945-4500 or visit our web site at www.itemamerica.com