SETTING THE BAR FOR CUSTOM APPLICATION MEASUREMENT
In industries where accuracy is paramount, the importance of precision measurement cannot be overstated. Accurate measurements are the foundation upon which quality, efficiency, and reliability are built. They enable businesses and organisations to make informed decisions, ensure compliance with standards and regulations, and drive innovation.
Precision In Industry
Precision measurement is essential in applications demanding meticulous attention to detail and standards. Be it measuring tolerances, inspecting critical dimensions, or verifying geometric features, accurate measurements contribute to the overall integrity of many manufacturing and engineering processes. The ability to measure with accuracy allows users across a wide variety of applications identify potential flaws, optimise designs, and meet stringent industry requirements.
Bowers Group provides specialist measuring solutions for even the most difficult of measurements that meet the unique, and often stringent, requirements of each industry. Its comprehensive range of measurement instruments including calipers, micrometers, bore gauges, and vision systems, enables organisations to achieve the highest levels of accuracy and reliability in their measurements. Likewise, the commitment to innovation and continuous improvement ensures that its measurement solutions are at the forefront of technological advancements.
Custom Measurement Solutions
What exactly gives the product range an edge is the group’s ability to develop custom solutions to suit even the most arduous of requisites. Bowers’ highly skilled applications team, has an impressive 99% success rate of finding solutions for client’s niche measurement problems, has helped deliver bespoke resolutions to requirements across many industries including oil and gas, defence, automotive, and aerospace.
Through its collaborative approach and extensive expertise, they work closely with industry leaders to understand their specific measurement challenges and develop tailored solutions that solve both longstanding and emerging problems. The applications team also provides guidance, training, and support, empowering businesses to optimise their measurement processes and drive efficiency — an invaluable resource for many businesses.
Delivering Efficiency
The cutting-edge Bowers XT Holematic range offers a flexible and modular gauging set that can transform the measurement process with its wide range of interchangeable anvils. Devised to deliver measurements to a resolution of 0.001mm (0.0005 inch), the ergonomic hand-held devices have a strong base on which to build an accurate and efficient measurement tool for specific business needs.
The Bowers XT already boasts an impressive range of ‘off-the-shelf’ application heads, catering to various measurement needs and ensuring versatility in precision measurement tasks. Whether dealing with threads, grooves, spline measurement, spherical features or other intricate geometries, the available heads deliver accurate and repeatable results with a proven track record for their reliability.
Providing custom gauging solutions that encompass it is measuring the width of slots or grooves, ensuring the accuracy of blind bores, examining major and minor diameters of gun barrel heads, or verifying the internal measurement of surface/subsea valve cavity-seat pockets for the oil and gas industry, Bowers Group is well-rehearsed in finding a reliable and repeatable measuring solution.
Previous projects have included the following: accommodating the measurement of the irregular shape of a soft drink can, designing a right-angled adapter for hard to reach bores, developing a solution for the internal measurement of ball-screws for the defence, aerospace, automotive and machine tool industry, and designing a 2 point head solution for dovetail slots and turbine blade grooves including custom contacts and a digital readout for easy data transfer.
With specialised heads, the XT Holematic range empowers users to perform comprehensive and accurate measurements on a wide range of features, facilitating precise component characterisation and enabling organisations to achieve the highest levels of quality and performance in their products.
The Foundation For Custom Measurement Solutions
With a comprehensive selection of gauges available, the foundations are already in place to help confidently tackle any measurement problem. Among the Bowers range of gauges available, there are many to choose from including the Bowers Universal Gauge, renowned for its versatility and accuracy. This gauge is designed to accommodate a wide variety of measurement applications, ensuring that no matter the task, it can be handled with ease. For more specialised needs, the Intex Gauge steps in, offering precise and reliable measurements tailored to specific industries or requirements.
Compact and portable measurements are easy to attain with Micro Gauge; its small size makes it ideal to perform measurements in tight spaces or remote locations.
With Countersink Gauge’s seamless and flush connections, measurements in a range of applications are easy and efficient, beneficial for anyone working with countersunk holes.
Meeting Tight Tolerances For Critical Components
Bowers has impressive air gauging systems that use air flow volumes and pressures to measure parts. Air gauging is a reliable, repeatable technology well-suited for applications that demand sub-micron precision tolerancing, which UK-based Addmore Engineering, leveraged for its bolt measurements that form critical components in braking systems. The company manufactures more than 10,000 of the bolts monthly. Therefore a fast, repeatable, and userfriendly solution was key. The business had previously experienced some difficulties where operators obtained differing readings with micrometers; a significant problem when trying to measure 7-micron tolerances. Bowers’ air gauging system allows multiple team members to check component diameters in a short space of time, and the touchscreen display with its customisable display interface is easy to read and interpret results.
Enabling organisations to achieve quality, reliability, and compliance through measurement is the cornerstone of Bowers Group. With custom and ready-to-purchase measurement solutions, businesses can elevate their measurement capabilities, meet industry demands, and excel in their respective fields. By embracing the importance of precision measurement and leveraging the expertise of on offer, it’s possible unlock new levels of accuracy, efficiency, and success in operations.