A purchased coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is not yet a production-ready measuring solution. It needs a measurement strategy, a program matched to machine, probe head, styli and fixture, and real commissioning. CSL programs offline — your measuring machine stays free for production measurements in the meantime.
To keep the figure verifiable, we use a fixed example: an aluminium housing, 300 × 200 × 120 mm, with 30 defined inspection characteristics. It combines regular geometries, form and position tolerances and CAD-based freeform surfaces that are measured by scanning. One part variant, one agreed measuring system, one defined probe head, a complete stylus configuration, one defined fixture, one agreed software version. Specification to ISO GPS or ASME Y14.5, with complete and released CAD and drawing data.
CHF 1'200.— applies when the basis is complete:
Changes to the part, drawing, measuring system, probe head, stylus assembly, fixture or software version count as additional effort.
The number of inspection characteristics is the weakest cost driver. Two parts with 30 characteristics each can differ several times over in programming effort. What matters is how unambiguous the requirements are and how difficult the characteristics are to reach.
That is why we do not quote a price per inspection characteristic and use no flat formula. Every quote comes from the actual documents. Whether in-house capacity pays off at all is covered in Make or buy in metrology.
CSL implements the inspection characteristics according to the specification system defined on the drawing. ISO GPS and ASME Y14.5 are both supported. The standards and editions stated on the drawing govern. The rules of the two systems are not mixed.
A full drawing review is not part of the reference price. Unclear, incomplete or contradictory specifications are not interpreted silently: CSL points out the ambiguities identified and agrees the necessary assumptions with the customer. These assumptions are documented and released before implementation. The resulting clarification, adaptation or reprogramming effort is charged on a time basis or against the engineering-hours package.
CSL writes measurement programs in the systems used at the customer's site. The underlying cost drivers are similar in all of them: inspection characteristics, measurement strategy, datums, freeform surfaces, scanning strategy, stylus configuration, fixture, program structure and the scope of the handover.
For optical 3D evaluations in addition: ZEISS INSPECT. An overview of all services is on the CMM programming page.
On request, CSL commissions the offline program on the real customer machine. This service is quoted as an optional item and can be charged against an existing engineering-hours package. Travel time and any travel expenses are not part of the package and are invoiced separately.
CSL supports commissioning and the technical functional check. The final release for series production rests with the customer unless agreed otherwise. Whether the inspection process can reliably assess the required tolerance is a separate question, answered by a measurement process capability study.
How the capacity is provided is defined jointly for each project: as a weekly or monthly volume of hours, for example, or distributed flexibly across the year. An engineering-hours package does not imply immediate availability at any time. The capacity, call-off and processing windows agreed in the quotation apply.
The size of the package is set on the basis of reliably foreseeable project or capacity demand over the next six months. This means the booked volume can normally be used in full. The package remains valid for twelve months, which provides reserve if schedules or projects shift. Remaining hours can be extended by mutual agreement where needed; an extension is project-related and not automatic.
For confidential CAD and drawing data we agree the transfer route in advance. Get in touch via contact and we will come back with the right route for your documents.
A purchased coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is not yet a production-ready measuring solution. It needs a measurement strategy, a program matched to machine, probe head, styli and fixture, and real commissioning. CSL programs offline — your measuring machine stays free for production measurements in the meantime.
To keep the figure verifiable, we use a fixed example: an aluminium housing, 300 × 200 × 120 mm, with 30 defined inspection characteristics. It combines regular geometries, form and position tolerances and CAD-based freeform surfaces that are measured by scanning. One part variant, one agreed measuring system, one defined probe head, a complete stylus configuration, one defined fixture, one agreed software version. Specification to ISO GPS or ASME Y14.5, with complete and released CAD and drawing data.
CHF 1'200.— applies when the basis is complete:
Changes to the part, drawing, measuring system, probe head, stylus assembly, fixture or software version count as additional effort.
The number of inspection characteristics is the weakest cost driver. Two parts with 30 characteristics each can differ several times over in programming effort. What matters is how unambiguous the requirements are and how difficult the characteristics are to reach.
That is why we do not quote a price per inspection characteristic and use no flat formula. Every quote comes from the actual documents. Whether in-house capacity pays off at all is covered in Make or buy in metrology.
CSL implements the inspection characteristics according to the specification system defined on the drawing. ISO GPS and ASME Y14.5 are both supported. The standards and editions stated on the drawing govern. The rules of the two systems are not mixed.
A full drawing review is not part of the reference price. Unclear, incomplete or contradictory specifications are not interpreted silently: CSL points out the ambiguities identified and agrees the necessary assumptions with the customer. These assumptions are documented and released before implementation. The resulting clarification, adaptation or reprogramming effort is charged on a time basis or against the engineering-hours package.
CSL writes measurement programs in the systems used at the customer's site. The underlying cost drivers are similar in all of them: inspection characteristics, measurement strategy, datums, freeform surfaces, scanning strategy, stylus configuration, fixture, program structure and the scope of the handover.
For optical 3D evaluations in addition: ZEISS INSPECT. An overview of all services is on the CMM programming page.
On request, CSL commissions the offline program on the real customer machine. This service is quoted as an optional item and can be charged against an existing engineering-hours package. Travel time and any travel expenses are not part of the package and are invoiced separately.
CSL supports commissioning and the technical functional check. The final release for series production rests with the customer unless agreed otherwise. Whether the inspection process can reliably assess the required tolerance is a separate question, answered by a measurement process capability study.
How the capacity is provided is defined jointly for each project: as a weekly or monthly volume of hours, for example, or distributed flexibly across the year. An engineering-hours package does not imply immediate availability at any time. The capacity, call-off and processing windows agreed in the quotation apply.
The size of the package is set on the basis of reliably foreseeable project or capacity demand over the next six months. This means the booked volume can normally be used in full. The package remains valid for twelve months, which provides reserve if schedules or projects shift. Remaining hours can be extended by mutual agreement where needed; an extension is project-related and not automatic.
For confidential CAD and drawing data we agree the transfer route in advance. Get in touch via contact and we will come back with the right route for your documents.
