Mold Maker Saves 40% in Time Using Height Gage

Operators at Marland Mold used to use separate height gages and indicators for each part feature. According to Wayne Ciepiela, quality assurance manager for Marland Mold, it took several hours to set up...

Bore Measurement Times Cut in Half

Schweizer Aircraft Corp. (Elmira, NY), the country’s only family-owned aircraft manufacturer, is busy at work to more efficiently and reliably inspect 100% of the parts it makes. As a maker of a diverse range of aircraft...

Zerotronic Sensors Delivers Wafers Faster

Precise determination of inclinations is a critical requirement for Seagate Inc. (Bloomington, MN), a vertically integrated builder of hard disk and tape drives for computer data storage....

Machine Shop Cuts Gage Setting Time by 50%

"We’re a production machine shop," said Dennis Murphy, quality assurance manager at McSwain Manufacturing, Cincinnati. The company crafts specialized parts for industries including power generation...

Instruments Help in Reducing Operator Error

Eliminating “operator bias effects” in precision measuring of aircraft control parts has been a major priority of the Moog Inc. Aircraft Group. The company has upgraded its measuring devices to meet that goal. ...

Fowler Delivers System for F-22 Tactical Fighter

Sometimes the inability to drill or ream a hole accurately can make or break the functioning of a high technology aircraft, according to a manufacturing engineering specialist with Lockheed-Martin Tactical Systems in Fort Worth...

Height Gage Triples Inspection Speed!

A Life would be simpler if we could safely drive three times as fast as we do now. As individuals, we could increase our productivity by decreasing our travel time. Less time in the car would be more time at work or play...

In-house Calibration Expedites Turnaround

In-house calibration has saved a company that specializes in the production of pneumatic cylinders time and money. What used to take three weeks, utilizing outside calibration services, is now done in a day...

Bowers Key in Eskridge Q.C. Program

A new state of the art bore gage is making it possible for Eskridge, Inc.-- a machine shop specializing in rotation drives, planetary gear boxes and fail-safe brakes -- to shorten delivery times, boost part accuracy...

Meeting Rotating Part Specs Focuses Shop On Quality

It's axiomatic in the metalworking industry that for quality production, a measuring gage has to be ten times more accurate than the part it measures. "We call it a gage R&R of ten percent," says Willie Michaely, quality assurance...

Hydromat Saves Inspection Time, Boosts Quality

For both its large and smaller rotary transfer machines, Hydromat, Inc. relies on high precision measuring equipment from Fowler not only to manufacture these versatile machines but also to supply metrology systems to its extensive group...

Height Gage Measures Savings at Foundry

LeSueur Inc.'s custom foundry in LeSueur, Minnesota, sought to detect part discrepancies in the production process as early as possible to improve the quality of the company's broad range of die castings...

Bore Gaging Flexibility Boosts Productivity

The main products sold at Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. (Williamsburg, Iowa) are its lines of agricultural planters and grain wagons, for which it previously bought the various machined parts to manufacture them...

Hytrol Realizes 20% Reduction in Inspection Costs

With its new Quality Laboratory in full swing, Hytrol Conveyor Company is assuring its top position in the field by focusing on having the latest and most advanced metrology instruments...

Thread Trend System Helps Cust Costs

Advance Turning and Manufacturing Inc., really lives up to its name these days, particularly since the specialty machine shop has begun using a new thread gaging system from the Fred V. Fowler Company. ...