The Principle of Determinism

Precision Machine Tool

Precision Machine Design adheres to the fundamental principle of determinism. The principle of determinism is that machine systems obeys cause and effect relationships. The principle of determinism does not accept the word random, it suggests that nothing is random and at some level there is a cause for the observed effect.

The repeatability of a machine tool is not driven by some inherent and seemingly random limiting process. With the ability to measure all of the influencing variables we can aim to better control them and therefore produce a more accurate machine tool.

Layton Hale's PhD Thesis (10mb PDF) talks about the principles of determinism and that the list of variables that cause errors in machine tools is not so long that we can't control them.

Cranfield Precision has a proven track record of producing highly accurate precision machine tools that are designed and produced using deterministic techniques.