Client: Leading manufacturer of high precision measuring equipment. Brief: To design a special fixture plate to allow all individual main bearings and crankshaft journals to be aligned to the instrument spindle axis. This enables fast and accurate measurement of large throw crankshafts on Talyrond roundness instrument. In addition the gauge arm assembly was re-designed to
Client: Leading manufacturer of high precision measuring equipment. Brief: To design a system capable of surface finish measurement of crankshaft bearings in a shop floor environment which would allow for minimum set up measurement cycles. The system is to be operated by personnel having limited metrology experience and consequenty needs to incorporate interlocking to prevent
Client: World leading cine lens manufacturer. Brief: To source optical manufacturers to satisfy the clients requirements within the confines of the customers stringent quality plan. Solution: Due to the nature of the problem it was required to source numerous optical substrate manufacturers and ensure they were able to meet the required specification. This was
Client: Leading manufacturers of pipe fittings for the water, gas and petrochemical industries. Brief: A revolutionary system of bolt-less pipe fittings has been developed by GLok. The brief was to develop the design for production. This took into account, detail design requirements, ease of manufacture, large batch quantities and at the same time be cost
Client: Gasfill – manufacture of CNG home refuelling compressors. Brief: Development of a CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) compressor that enables vehicles to be refuelled at home, operating from a normal domestic household gas and electricity supply which slowly fills the CNG fuel tanks within a vehicle whilst parked. Project challenges Key challenges on this project
Client: Newmac Developments – power tool manufacturer Brief: To design and develop a prototype handheld power tool to enable a 60mm wide recess to be chased out where a crack appears in plaster walls. This then allows a 50mm nylon plasterers tape to be placed over the crack and then filled providing a permanent finish.
Client: Leading fire protection company. Brief: To design, develop, manufacture and install a fire test furnace as a turnkey solution for a leading fire protection company to provide them with pre-conformance testing of their products. Project challenges Key challenges on this project included: Mechanical: • Research into refractory materials for the lining to withstand 1250oC
Client: Leading manufacturer of high precision measuring equipment. Brief: To develop a bespoke turnkey cleaning facility for AMETEK Taylor Hobson’s high precision bearing journals for their roundness instruments to replace an existing cleaning system. The system is being used by Taylor Hobson personnel within manufacturing facilities in the UK and China. Project challenges Key challenges
Client: Leading manufacturer of high precision measuring equipment. Brief: To develop an on-line production hand held optical measuring system for the assessment of automotive engine block cylinder bores. The system is used to analyse the cross-hatch angle on a plateau-honed cylinder bore as this parameter can have a significant impact on engine performance and fuel