Abstract
In this paper, data acquisition and analysis of a measuring machine for marine engine's cams are discussed. A rotary encoder and linear scale of the machine to measure angular and linear displacement, respectively, are interfaced to the PC via an encoder board with 2 channels. The design and measuring data are interpolated by cubic spline curves to compute the precision error which is defined by the maximum and minimum distances between two curves. The minimum zone fit of ISO is employed to evaluate the geometric deviation. The developed system takes only 5 minutes to measure and analyze the precision error while the CMM takes over I hours even with a skilled operator.