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MCOSMOS: CAD-based CMM programming — stylus on a turbocharger housing with collision control

Official measurement service provider

MCOSMOS CMM programs — written and optimised

Your machine keeps measuring — we program offline.

Your Mitutoyo CMM should measure, not wait for programs. CSL writes and optimises CMM programs in Mitutoyo MCOSMOS — GEOPAK, CAT1000P/S and SCANPAK, up to complex parameter programs. Offline at our own workstation, commissioned on our own Mitutoyo machines in the CSL laboratory or on your system.

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30-minute technical call

Offline workstation

Programming without downtime on your machine

Commissioning in the CSL lab

on our own Mitutoyo machines in the CSL laboratory — or on your system

Four-eyes check

automatic for critical programs — additionally on request

Q-DAS connection

Connection and K-fields to your specifications

Customer situations

Common starting points

Series ramp-up — the programs are missing

CSL writes the programs in parallel and commissions them on its own Mitutoyo machines in the CSL laboratory — your machine keeps measuring.

Complex parameter programs exceed the routine

CSL programs GEOPAK parameter programs with variables and custom dialogs — they belong to you and remain maintainable by your team.

Programming blocks the machine

CAT1000P/S offline with collision checking: programmed at CSL, measured at your site.

Existing programs are tedious to change

Structured subroutines at start and end — changes take effect in one place across the whole program.

Modules

What we program in Mitutoyo MCOSMOS

Complex parameter programs

In GEOPAK: variables and custom dialogs — one program for part families and recurring measurement tasks.

CAT1000P/S

CAD-based offline programming with collision checking — the program is built on the model, not on your machine.

SCANPAK

Contour measurement — capturing profiles and evaluating them to standard.

Structured subroutines

Start and end routines in one place — changes take effect across the whole program.

Why CSL for MCOSMOS

Official measurement service provider

Commissioned where Mitutoyo is at home

CSL is an official measurement service provider of Mitutoyo and commissions MCOSMOS programs on its own Mitutoyo machines in the CSL laboratory. On request, we commission directly on your system.

Qualified measuring laboratory

Certified to ISO 9001. Commissioning takes place on our own Mitutoyo machines in the temperature-controlled measuring room. For suitable CMM measurements, measurement uncertainty is evaluated in accordance with ISO 15530-3 using calibrated workpieces.

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Process

From enquiry to commissioned program

Five steps, clear roles: you provide the basis, CSL programs — commissioning as agreed.

CAD + drawings

CAD as STEP, drawings or existing programs.

Quote

Effort-based and transparent.

Data exchange

Stylus data, machine configuration, fixturing, software version.

Programming

Offline at CSL, without occupying your machine — or in your environment.

Commissioning and handover

By CSL or by you — critical programs with a four-eyes check.

Working together

Two ways of working with CSL

Individual order

One program or a defined package — quoted effort-based and transparently. The low-risk entry point, also as a clearly bounded pilot program.

Flexible block of hours

The preferred working model for recurring demand: an agreed block of hours for programming and optimisation — a partnership instead of order by order. Uncomplicated call-off without repeated quoting, short response paths — plannable for both sides: your budget, our capacity.

Case from practice

Project management

Development

Mitutoyo MCOSMOS

Pilot series measured in Switzerland — quality assurance secured abroad

A customer closed its quality assurance in Switzerland — development and pilot-series assembly stayed at the site. CSL took over the measurements up to the launch and delivered CMM programs that today secure quality at the assembly site abroad.

1The customer closed quality assurance at the Swiss site — development and pilot-series assembly remained, but no in-house measuring capacity.

2CSL accompanied the prototype and pilot-series measurements as an external laboratory — the dimensional inspection ran in parallel with development.

3The CMM programs were written in Mitutoyo MCOSMOS — to the customer's precise template, instructions and drawing.

4After successful tests and the product launch, the CMM programs were transferred to the customer's assembly site abroad.

5There, the same machines with the same robust measurement now secure quality — reproducible and site-independent, in the spirit of the CSL Quality Gate.

Development in Switzerland, series production abroad: robust, documented CMM programs make the transfer possible — the measurement strategy travels with the product.

Official measurement service provider

of Mitutoyo Switzerland

ISO 9001:2015 certified

Certified quality management system

ISO GPS standardisation

Member of Swissmem NK1, ISO/TC 213

Outcome

What you get out of it

Commissioned, not just written

We run in the program on our own Mitutoyo machines before you use it.

No machine downtime

Programming runs offline, your system stays in production.

Complex parameter programs too

Variants and part families in one program, instead of maintaining twenty individual programs.

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Frequently asked

What customers want to know before the project

Do you commission the program at our site?

Yes — by CSL on your machine or by you. MCOSMOS programs are additionally commissioned on our own Mitutoyo machines in the CSL laboratory.

Are styli and fixturing documented in the program?

Yes — the styli are stored in the program, the fixturing conditions are visible in the program, often to your specifications. Everything essential is in the program itself; we are happy to create additional documentation on request.

Do you offer a Q-DAS connection?

Yes — we connect Mitutoyo MCOSMOS to Q-DAS and populate the K-fields to your specifications. The same applies to Zeiss Calypso and Hexagon PC-DMIS.

Do you also design the measurement reports?

Yes — we set up the report layout to your specifications. On request, the program automatically files each report at the defined location — correctly named via variables such as article, order or serial number.

Who commissions the program and releases it?

Purely offline programs are commissioned and released by you — or we take over the commissioning as part of the order, on your machine or on our Mitutoyo machines in the CSL laboratory.

What cannot be conclusively verified offline?

Without the real machine, machine, stylus, fixturing and collision conditions remain assumptions from the simulation. That is exactly why commissioning is part of the process — it confirms or corrects these assumptions.

Is commissioning a validation?

No. Commissioning is neither a formal validation nor a measurement process capability study — that is a separate service according to VDA 5 or MSA.

What is the scope of delivery?

The agreed CMM program. After full payment it belongs to you — use, copy, modify and transfer it freely.

Your MCOSMOS project — describe the task.

Quotes are effort-based and transparent.

Christian Schärer

Owner and Managing Director · Standards committee Swissmem NK1

+41 55 511 50 85 info@csl-imt.ch Team →

Prefer to talk first?

A 30-minute technical call about your drawing or measurement task. Free of charge, in English or German.

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Project enquiry

Send us your MCOSMOS task by email

Briefly describe the parts and the number of programs, and attach CAD (STEP) or drawings — excerpts are fine. An NDA before the first file is available on request. You normally receive a reply within one working day, in English if you prefer.

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Or use the project form on the German contact page — it accepts uploads and an NDA option.

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