Patent ID: 9528826
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G01B,G05B,Y02P

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a metrology device configured to measure workpiece metrology values; a manufacturing machine comprising an operating tool arm fixed to the metrology device and a workpiece at least partially inside the working envelope of the manufacturing machine, configured to measure and record its position coordinate values and an index signal value at a regular or near regular first frequency; a computer component configured to generate an index signal that increments periodically at a regular or near regular second frequency; a computer component configured to simultaneously record the workpiece metrology values and the corresponding index signal values creating a matrix of metrology values and raw index values; a computer component configured to temporally adjust the index values and create a matrix of workpiece metrology values and temporally adjusted index values; a computer component configured to transmit the index signal to the manufacturing machine in a format compatible with the manufacturing machine; a computer component configured to interpolate the manufacturing machine position coordinate values corresponding with the matrix of temporally adjusted index values; a computer component configured to apply a vector addition of interpolated machine position coordinate values and corresponding workpiece metrology values creating a spatially oriented workpiece metrology value matrix; and a computer component configured to visualize, summarize, and/or report the resulting spatially oriented workpiece metrology value matrix.