The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has approved BAE Systems Instrumentation and Calibration Services (ICS) to deliver the NPL Dimensional Measurement Training Programme to its own staff. BAE Systems picked a select group of experienced employees to be trained in delivering the programme at BAE Systems’ Barrow Calibration Centre (BCC). This has resulted in training courses taking place on site at BAE Systems at times that suit delegates, supervisors and the management team.

Metris Laser Radar Driver 5.1 software sets new precision standards for automated, non-contact inspection of holes in large measuring volumes. Depending on hole diameter, Metris allows Laser Radar users to reach accuracy and repeatability levels up to 30 times higher than before.

Automotive supplier, Bulten, streamlines shop floor processes for greater visibility and improved documentation across plants in Sweden and Poland. Online web-based modular software provides real time visibility of the entire manufacturing operations.

Machine tool probes improve production efficiency and increase lights-out machining in a low volume, large variety, high complexity production environment.

Medical device designer and manufacturer, Rocket Medical PLC, is using a Mecmesin computer-controlled test system to perform quality checks on the heat seals of medical pouches in accordance with British Standard BS EN 868-5:1999.

One of the few aluminium alloy routing specialists in the UK, Whitwam Precision

Since January 1, 1990, toys can only be placed in the European market if they bear the CE Mark.  Toy manufacturers are therefore under a legal obligation to ensure that their products are thoroughly tested, and they and their dealers have special tests performed by organisations such as LGA in Nuremberg, Germany.

The introduction in the 1970s of superabrasives such as cubic boron nitride (CBN) transformed honing from what Gren Lewis, Managing Director of Sunnen Products Limited, describes as a cleaning-up process to a stock removal process capable of removing metal faster and more accurately than grinding.

 "I cannot see the point of investing in accurate and repeatable CNC machine tools and then checking the components they produce by hand", says Nick Groom, managing director of Qualiturn products, a precision turned parts manufacturer in Hertford.  “You simply take the risk of human error out of the machining process only to reintroduce it in the quality control department.”