MEASUREMENT OF CRITICAL CONCENTRICITY OF VITAL COMPONENTS:

Flight Refuelling Ltd: Renowned for the quality of their manufactured products, well-known Aerospace Company, Flight Refuelling Ltd, recently took delivery of a series of Bowers SmartPlug Heads linked to high accuracy Sylvac transducer probes feeding into a Sylvac D100s readout unit. The ingenious system now helps measures the critical concentricity of a series of vital parts within a complex Airborne Weapons Firing Mechanism.

Company Manufacturing Manager Steve Grindey explained “The safety critical nature of these tight tolerance, complex component meant that our previous inspection methods, involving a Coordinate Measuring Machines, was exceptionally time consuming and caused a bottle-neck for other inspection work at the CMM. Although our specification for this gauging project was extremely demanding, Bowers fully understood the brief and supplied on time, on budget and most importantly our new gauging equipment actually exceeds our accuracy expectations. Our Bowers SmartPlug/Sylvac system sends its dimensional findings to a PC instantly updating our records and as inspection times have now been slashed the system is well on its way to paying for itself.”

Published on February 28, 2008 16:37 updated on July 15, 2009 17:12