pesmedia.com Production Engineering Solutions June 2024 29 QUALITY & INSPECTION www.njmetrology.com [email protected] 07831 207506 CMM Calibration ISO 17025 accredited calibration laboratory Due to the significant growth of its popular subcontract CNC turning and machining service, Alrose Products in Peterborough has invested in a selection of Bowers Group’s precision measurement instruments to improve turnaround times and deliver high quality machining processes. Improving its operations with both a Baty Venture vision system and a Trimos V7 height gauge, the company now maintains the highest levels of accuracy to its customers by measuring to very tight tolerances with consistent precision, avoiding even slight deviations in accuracy. Jon Aconley, managing director at Alrose Products, explains: “Accuracy is critically important to our customers. They quite rightly want the assurance that our products are accurate and will work perfectly because they’re manufactured to consistent, high standards. Ultimately, our motion control solutions help our customers to demonstrate a high level of quality in their finished products. The measurement process helps us demonstrate our capability as a business to deliver exactly what is needed with precision, control, and consistency. “The vision system and height gauge from Bowers Group enable us to expedite faster processes; we know immediately that components are right. They give us high levels of confidence as we know we can trust the accuracy of the equipment.” Specialising in gas springs, Alrose serves a diverse customer base including OEMs, distributors, and end-users worldwide. Its gas springs are widely used in various sectors such as marine, aerospace, transportation, pharmaceutical, and industrial, providing reliable motion control solutions. Many businesses procure gas springs to guarantee a reliable method for opening hatches, machinery, and facility access doors, among other applications. The company also offers subcontract CNC machining and inspection services. Due to a program of growth in machining subcontract parts, investing in the precision measuring technology supplied by Bowers Group was deemed a necessity to avoid deviations in accuracy. “Buying any equipment is a consideration as there are so many factors involved, not least the investment of capital,” Mr Aconley continues. “However, knowing Bowers Group’s reputation and understanding what is on offer made it far easier. The equipment was agreed and ordered, delivered on time and to specification, and the backup service has been faultless.” Bowers’ instruments adhere to strict tolerance standards, ensuring consistent and reliable measurements across all operations. This consistency eliminates the potential for operatorinduced variations, providing the business with enhanced accuracy and confidence in its measurement data. The Baty Venture Vision System is an advanced optical measurement system designed to provide precise and accurate inspection of components in various industries. Equipped with powerful optics and intuitive software, the system offers comprehensive measurement capabilities, including dimensional analysis, surface inspection, and defect detection. Key features include high-resolution cameras, precision motorised stages, and an intuitive software interface. These features allow for rapid and accurate measurement of complex parts with minimal user intervention. The system’s robust construction and ergonomic design ensure reliability and ease of use in demanding manufacturing environments. The Trimos V7 height gauge seamlessly merges innovative technology with traditional practice. Featuring a touch-display and lateral insert holders, it serves as a versatile tool for workshop environments. Complex functions like 2D, programming, and statistics are simplified, providing ease of use and significantly boosting productivity. The incorporation of the Baty Venture vision system and the Trimos V7 height gauge facilitates quicker processes for the company, allowing Alrose to swiftly confirm the accuracy of components and proceed with production runs. The introduction of reliable, accurate and fast measurement systems has increased the team’s confidence in quality, as well as significantly improving turnaround times. Both machines are integral to the daily operations at Alrose, facilitating enhanced efficiencies. As the company grows and expands, there is an anticipated increase in their use. While primarily employed by the engineers in producing machined parts, they are also increasingly being utilised for subcontracted parts for clients, with verification deemed a necessity to ensure the highest levels of accuracy and precision. Q Bowers Group www.bowersgroup.co.uk Q Alrose Products www.gas-springs.com The Baty Venture vision system at Alrose Products provides critical accuracy for its customers Scan here for more Bowers Group articles Bowers boosts efficiency at Alrose Products The DAkkS (German national accreditation body) accredited laboratory of eumetron GmbH in Aalen, Germany offers calibration services traceable to national standards to extremely high levels of accuracy. The experts use special procedures to calibrate plug gauges, setting rings, calibration spheres and hemispheres as well as test specimens and other reference standards or reference workpieces. Standards are used to adjust, calibrate, check and set dimensional measuring systems and are therefore important tools in quality assurance. When it comes to roundness measurement, eumetron GmbH relies on two Rondcom form measuring devices from Accretech. In doing so, eumetron GmbH achieves measurement uncertainties of just 10nm. Quality assurance is an integral foundation in practically all industries and length measurement technology is at the centre of quality assurance in most manufacturing industries and their service providers. Dimensional accuracy in accordance with specified tolerance values must be guaranteed to ensure perfect usability, function, reliability and durability of the workpieces. Testing and compliance with tolerances, taking measurement uncertainty into account, is the task of quality assurance and inspection departments using a wide variety of length measuring devices, which must be subjected to a calibration process on a regular basis. Deviations due to geometric errors, thermal influences or changes in shape and position cause measurement variability. By comparing current production with reference workpieces, changes in the production process can be recognised at an early stage. Such dimensional measuring systems include, for example, coordinate, form, contour, height and surface roughness measuring devices, as well as profile and measuring projectors, but also measuring microscopes, computer tomographs, laser trackers, fringe light projection and photogrammetry systems. Reference standards are used for setting, checking, adjusting and calibrating, providing a traceable means of assessing the accuracy of measurement equipment. Calibrated reference workpieces are necessary in many cases to determine the measurement uncertainty of test characteristics occurring on site at a user’s premises. 35-employee eumetron is one of the world’s leading calibration laboratories for Eumetron GmbH: a point of reference Rondcom stylus measuring the roundness of a ball as a reference standard
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