Good practices and uncertainty assessment process on AACMM

2017

International audience; This paper presents a methodology of evaluating the performance of Articulated Arm Coordinate Measuring Machines (AACMM) for general acceptance-based on the manufacturer's specifications, and on site-based mainly on the application requirements. The first part of this paper takes stock of ISO 10360-12: 2016 standard, which defines the tests that the AACMM user should perform to validate or not the performance of his machine. The various tests recommended by the standard are analyzed and their practical usefulness is explained. In the second part of the paper, an on-site uncertainty estimation methodology is proposed. The interest of the on-site verification methodolo…